New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22

Of recfting TRADE from Of her favortts roIes
Adrienne readily consented but was not an niue
eaFlo1sI a osior Morfed by her guests
1Ii1pd IN what She had failed to please him
fsMadernoiseIle replied Du harsais so far as Ely
Of gTeater Sf talents than yours and IN order to
eclipse probably al yoTT ISef IS Te5ed on your
part is to give to each word t9e exact eI1lll4S-S
Necessary to express its meaning" D.. =. .,o--
Adrienne begged the graInTnaTtan not to Dc spar
ing of his advice, and following II cSfoo
Great was the wrath of her fellow players over
This innovation, and they prosecuted her to such
an extent that the authorities were forced to
interfere She was exceedingly well hated by all
of Them for they envied not only her success on
the stage, but her acceptance by society IN the
matter Of happiness they had no excuse IoF
jealousy, for the short life Of the favor1te was
q troubled one Her devotion to the Big mag
nifcent. unclean brute and great soldier. Maurice
de SAKE brought her misery and, ultimately
death, it has been said. at the hands OF a titled
rival MI Williams while disposed to believe
that the Duchesse de BouiIlon did attempt to put
an end to the actress by poison, thinks that the
effort which failed was not renewed, and tlat
Adrienne died of a natural disease maurice oe
SAKE and Voltaire were beside her when she
passed away, and neither OF them had influence
enough to give the poor body Christian burial
By custom long established the Paris clergy re-
fused such burial to actors who had not re-
nounced their profession. and tragic indeed was
the end of this beautiful. beloved woman
Cramrned into a coach without coffin and driven
at midnight to a piece of waste land near the
Seine she was buried there, "Quicklime being
thrown over the body. and no stone or mark OF
any kind being placed to indicate where 1t lay.
To the dernoiseIe Clarion the author devotes
| many entertaining pages She was remarkable
tragic actress but one nevertheless, of qualified
| greatness Garrick as we have seen, saw her
| limitations and others have testified to them OF
| Dumesnn and Clarion. Edmond de Goncourt has
said: THE one was all temperament the other
| all study and art. 1t was profound study and
art SO wonderful that for most spectators it had
the effect of Garricks electrical fire" Of genius
| Deservedly eminent was she actress: In
other respects she was far from admirable. AZ
| the height OF her success her pride was absurd
Mime de Pompadour" said she day, ''owes
her sovereignty to chance; owe mine to the power
guished of her colleagues with naughty dlSdaln-
and often with the grosSest d1scourtesy and poor
and inofTe3sive of women retired from the stage
ten years earlier than she would otherwise have
fonr Sftb such creature As for the younger
actresses. they positively trembled before her.
miration for her she condescended to rectprocate.
there is said to have been not a single dramatic
The public She appears to have regarded very
much queen might have her sUbjectA
| The author is perfectly frank the subject
of the sentimental careers Of all these ladies'
from which 1t may be gathered that his voluIns
IS not intended for the perusal Of young persons
of the house of Podsnap. He has added num-
| Der of portraits to his text. that OF Arnands
Bejart, the wife OF Moliere, being the most In
| teresting and the rareSt