The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-30

nience. Deprived of their artificial
source of vision they are almost help
| less and depend, to a large extent upon
the co-workers for guidance
There is a story circulating abroad
that Nine. Sarah Bernhard and Sig
nora EleanOre Duse have quarreled.
I Cause? Well, when last Signora Duse
acted in Paris Nine. Bernhardt lent her
/ her theatre But six months ago an
installment of Bernhardt's memoirs
appeared, which contained criticisms
on Buses art When accordingly
Nine. Bernhardt again offered her the
atre to the Italian actress, SignOra
Duse wrote 10 her: Never viii ] for
get your hospitality You had accus-
toned me then to a gentle intimacy.
which on my part. had become deep
and respectful affection Alas, why,
oh, why, madame, can my heart no
longer now go out TO yOurS2 | cannot
ignore the opinion expressed by you on
my art can neither ignore. nor aC-
cept, not forget il, for one does not
wish to forget what sets vibrating in
one ones most fruitful energies On the
other hand. the remembrance of your
artistic judgment on me must not cause
me to forget your earlier kindness to-
ward me. / keep both the memory of
the one thing and the memory of the
other thing. ] pray you to remember. on
your part. madame. my unlimited adj
miratiOn for you and my endless graft
tude--EIeanOre Duse" All of which
means that SignOra DuSe can no longer
act in the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt be
cause Nine. Sarah adversely criticised
her acting.
Every city visited by either Savage or
COnried has its Parsifal joke, and this
one belongs to Omaha.
Which act of the music festival do
you like BEST asked an enthusiastic
musician OF one critic.
y prefer the second" was the i'm
mediate response.
rs that 500" replied the enthusiastic
student How can you express a
preference when it is all so marvellous
so beautiful SO glorious
1T seems to me- replied the critic
that slept better during that act"
Near StratfOrd-On-AvOn, the birth
place OF Shakespeare. there ois a house
called ClODtOn house, the residence of
the late Sir Arthur Hodgson. which has
some strange and tragic memories If
tradition may be believed. incidents Oc-
CURED there IN Shakespeare's own time
which may have suggested TO him the
-ault scene in Romeo and Juliet -
Without going to the novel of Bandelo
or other Italian source, and also the
drowning of Ophelia.
The traditional WarwiCkshire orig
l
and she was taken 81 during the out
break of the plague in Stratford-on-
Avon, apparently died. and was buried
in the CloptOn family vault. The bu-
rial was however. premature. for when
the vault was opened a week later to
receive another coffin, the bearers saw
Charlotte ClOpton leaning against the
wall in her grave clothes And when
they looked nearer says William
Hewitt, who tells the story in his Wis
its TO Remarkable Mansions " she was
indeed dead but not before. in the
agonies of despair and hunger she had
bitten a piece of flesh from her white,
round arm
Like ODhelia, Margaret ClOpton. a
sister of Charlotte fell in love with a
man who afterwards repudiated her
Her mind became unhinged. and she
drowned herself in pool in the leafy
grounds of her home When Shakes
peare was =. boy the tales about the
tragic ends OF Charlotte and Margaret
ClOpton must have been the theme of
common gossip, and were likely to
make "A profound impression on his
mind. They have never been frogotten
in WarwickShire. and the ghosts of
Charlotte and Margaret have long been