Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-16
(By LA RACONTEUSE)

French actresses l, am very often asked, 'Is it ready true that they are so depraved and so little come il fault that Society will have nothing to do with the?''
 Now the answer is that it is true, hut the fault certainly does not lie with the French actress but with French Society which has inexorably i, laced the actress in caste and which commpels her not to move out side of it.
 At the bottom of the trouble is the indispensable fact that it is impossi- lie for Frenchman to respect a Ea @ersists even now ill the twentieth century in considering her an abnor- mity. as being beneath the level. Per laps this is caused by his innate ad- miraton of women which is hurt to sec a woman working and making money. perhaps it is mere prejudice.
 In spite of this a French audience is one which would delight an actor CT actress, it is so attentive. so pleas cd with mere trifles, so grateful and so intensely interested--but so far, no farther.
 An actress who appears in pubic, who permits herself to be embraced and kissed by strange man is per sen with whom you cannot possibly associate in private life, no matter how much you admire her and her art on the stage.
 Everything has been done to bar the actress from Society and it is always a great sensation when man of good family braves tradition and marries her, though it does happen occasionally.
 The young actress who does not make hit immediately, receives a miserable salary, but she must be a ron plus ultra of elegance or nobody ,1i.ll look at her-a and then, of course, there is only one way open to her, 1T shc is ambitious and determined to get on she must get a protector with money, unless she be a Sarah Bern hardt of Rejane. and so the French actress is forced to live life apart.
 But as she is not received in good soeiety, she has no obligations to- wards it. so she says with smile; 'Well. these ladies will not receive mo SO I am justified in receiving their husbands and these arc not all sorry to leave their wives at home when calling on the priestesses of Thalla.
 My own idea is that it is the hus- bands themselves who have made their wives afraid of these light living creatures, these actresses, whom they really admire at the bottom of their hearts, whose style they copy and whom they familiarly mention by their last name without the preflNe of Mmc. of Mile. You never hear any Parisienne saying Mme. Bernhardt of Mne. Rejane, Mile Brandis, Mile Partet or Mile Leconte or whatever arc the names of all these popular idols.
 The late Danish author, Herman rang, Mho was an intimate friend c1 Rejane and who staged lbsens "A DcIl's House. in Paris with Rejat as Nora once told nc the following story:
 At dinner given by Manager Porsl. Mime. Reiane's husband we happened to talk about certal' young actress from his theatre who was about to marry l4e Bar2y. the famous lover from Theatre Francai' who was so hopelessly in debt thougi he made $20000 year. 'lt is rathc anucving," said M Porel that l haV to discharge her, for who will nov ,,ay for her gowns?'
 \ sew liberal minded, rich families who are independent enough to do a ', they please without anybody darln; 10 interfere. as for instance Barol Edlnon de Rothschild, have opene' their homes to Mime. Rejane, amon' others, and everybody is charmed wit her because of her sparkling, Wit
 Rciohemberg, whose life has cer tainly been as fast as that of an French actress, has had the good ide to marry a real baron and is now re Ceived everywhere, even by the mos prpdish bourgoise, merely becaus she is a baroness.
 To Bartet, who is unmarried, bu of whom everybody knows that sh has always had but one lover, societ has now, that she is old, opened 1t