New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06

never loved her. and he would prefer evervthine
e,se TO her. would prefer even her inhdelity
Seiinalne hrst bloodless with establishment and
despair. replies in turn Is she not loyal? Is
1t ner fault that when they were married she
was eighteen and he thirty-fve? That marriage
nean! quite another thing for him than it
meant for her? Was her only crime not simply
s sh. that she had adored him absolutely? Thus
siie goes on, and in quarter Of an hour the ruin
- completed. The couple is engaged In this
b tenpe ST. OF Jury when Pascal enters. Take
heT, Etlenne cries. Il don't want her" Then
nc leaves the house. Thus. through an abom-
inably unjust act. Germaine is thrown into the
aims OF rascal Pascal receives her because she
SlNes herself, and because he has loved her 40
long. ~ ~ ''eA OF
COMPLICATIONS OF CONSCIENCE
oI but Gernaine's conscience is awakened and
Pascal, too feels the horror OF the situation
ana ferlaud, as soon as he realizes that he is
delivered from the pressure of the wonan's love
regrets the estrangement, preferring his old po-
sltlon to his solitude and present liberty His
attehtlon is centred on Germaine. He cannot
enoure the idea that he has made her suffer be-
caused she loved him too much. He now under
stands that love to a certain degree creates its
own own right and that one has no right to be
iIlgld 10 those who adore one. feeling OF
jealousy against Pascal is not absent either
Ihen Catherine Villiers. his old mistress who
was so economical so bourgeois, so stod comes
back and offers herself to him. He repulses her
almost brutally. Tenderly and gently he again
meets Germaine and proposes to her to forget
is willing to resume their former marital rela-
lions, but her fall stands between them Ftienns
takes her in his arms and makes love to her
just Pascal enters. He tells Pascal that he
will not fight with him, but will Kill him. and
Pascal leaves, crying: My life is ruined" In
reality, Pascal, the play intmates. is the most
unfortunate of the three. because, owing to the
brief enjoyment or pleasure which was thrown
at him in anger. he has lost an old friend, lost
the gentleness Of a rare sentiment and lost the
silent love for woman. in the pure intimacy OF
which he would have preferred to live. With a
brusque movement Feriaud opens his arms to
Germaine. But" she says I'VE will be miser-
he mis- IN he
we will love each other better, because have
both snned. and both have pity one
another.
SOMETHING ABOUT REJANE.
Such is the story of the play. The leading
player is less unfamiliar to New-York. Some
times called "the laughter of Paris" Gabrielle
Rejane is one of the most important figures on
the French stage to-day, where important fig
ures are many. and though Paris laughs well. 1t
also is stirred by other emotions at her bidding
and halls her virtuosity. Unlike Bernhard.
Rejane is physically almost buxom. full Of viva
cous common sense. and apparently quite nor
NAL in her ways Of doing her part Of the worlds
work. She has had a hard fight TO the top Of
the ladder, has fought ii with perseverance, and
known little leisure. Yet she has kept a nat
ural good nature in working order, and kind
ness her fellows in trouble or grief is said to
mark her whole career.
Nine Rejane was born to the stage She
spent her early childhood about the lobby Of
| l.
her mother attended the buffet. 1t was while
living in this environment that her ambition to
| become an actress was awakened. At school she
| became acquainted with the daughter Of Jules
/ Simon, then Minister Of Public instruction
Through her schoolmate Gabrielle managed to
| be admitted to the Conservative, where she
studied hard and was graduated first in her
class. In the beginning of her career in Paris
she spent eight years at the Vaudeville The
atre from 1872 to 1880, creating twenty differ
ent parts. but she had place worthy of her
talent or Of those promises 1t gave. Sardou. the
virtual king Of theatredom; the various directors
who followed one another so rapidly, the good
PeTe German Roger, Bertrand and Raymond
Desandes-none of them guessed that they had
a great actress at their disposal. It was Pierre
Berton who said to her: You are not half APP
preciated here; you are far above all these peo-
plei you are star; give up your useless struggle
here" a star what NJ E. Bertrand, then
director Of the Varieties. was in most urgent
need Of He engaged ReJane for three years. in
spite Of her most unsatisfactory appearance in
a tiny part in Les Demoiseles Clochart," an
Uncompleted comedy by Henri Meihac; and
from then dates her march to the front.
She first appeared on the Boulevard Mont