Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-31

were rapid and dazzling: and whether she
appeared in modern comedy or as the crea
tor of characters in entirely new plays, the
theater was always crowded.
In 1850 Emile Anglers admirable comedy,
''L'AdVenturiere, was revived at the Com
edie Francois, and the author coniided the
part of Clorinde to Sarah Bernhard. After
the first presentation. however, she was so
enraged by an uncompimentary newspaper
criticism that she sent in her resignation
to NJ Emile Perrin, director of the theater,
quilted Paris and went to England, where
she gave q series of representations, and,
appearing there for the first time
caused a veritable sensation in London
society. Meanwhile NJ Perrin Instituted
against her in the name of the Coincide
Francois, a lawsuit for breach of contract,
with damages laid at 100000 francs. 1t was
at this juncture that she accepted the offers
of an enterprising manager for tour In
America where she achieved no less phe-
nomenal successes than in Europe.
a sensational account of this American
tour was afterwaTd published by one Of her
associates Mile. Marie Colomb.er under
the title of Sarah Bernhard en- Amerique.'
| This was followed by a second volume from
the same pen, entitled Sarah Barnum,"
The latter book as its title suggests, was
not intended as a compliment, and Sarah
Bernhardt brought an action against the
written by which she was compelled to ex-
punge from her scandalous volume all that
was offensive.
From America Sarah returned to Paris.
where she revived all her old successes, and
Wnefe, IN 1883 at the OueOn, she produced
q one-act comedy from her own pen, en-
titled "LAvel.," which met with some
what frgid reception.
a MILWAUKEE MAN MADE BERN
! HARDT FAMOUS.-Eugene Field on one
| occasion gave a most interesting account
| of the translation of Sarah Bernhard to
| the legitimate stage.
Field attributed this translation TO Col.
| Horace Rublee. then editor of the Milwau-
kee Sentinel. who was at that time a guest
| OF Madame Bernhard at one of the hotels
| in this city. The poets account of the
matter is as follows: 1t was while Col.
| Rublee was United States minister to Bel
| GUM that he visited Paris for the first
| time. Being then young and enterpriS-
| ing man, he explored the French metropo-
| lis thoroughly, and one evening happened
| to attend a performance at the Theatre
| riety houses with which Paris abounded at
| that time. 1t was here that he first saw
| and heard Sarah Bernhardt, then a mere
| girl, doing a song and dance. The unusual
! tress impressed the sagacious dipIomatist
| so absolutely that he determined to interest
himself IN her behalf
In a few days he had set her case before
| the American minister, and through the
| influence of that official secured an au-
| dience with the directory of the Coincide
| Francois, who finally consented to give
| the girl trial in the role of Phedre From
| that day to the present time Bernhardt has
| trod the fiowery path to glory and II is
| said to her credit that she has never for
| gotten the kindness done her by her good
! friend, Monsieur lie Colonel!
She said to me the other day: "Wizout
| Messieur lie Colonel vaire little good would
my art do. He ind me in re song and
! dance, and he say: Sairia, you are one