A LUCRATIVE ENGAGEMENT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 169, 23 October 1880, Page 3

A LUCRATIVE ENGAGEMENT.

I't >is <io k •definitely settled that | ■'Sara Bernhardt. goes to the United | Stales. She lias signed an engageI >rrioiit wkh an enterprising American p ■who, mo dostA, sees his way to making |i money, although ho has given the great actress the moat astounding terms. The [ salary commences with n clear sum of «• one hundred pounds a night for the six regular performances of the week, and , the same for any oocasiounl matinee : after that Sara is to receive one-third of the nightly receipts. All the expenses out and home are to he paid by the imjireeario, who further guarantees a weekly sum of sixty pounds to pay hotel billn, S' for Sara and unite. She is to to have, a •, benoal in all the lame towns in which, j. she plays, and will share the Profits, of | the libretto, which will give pit r<er.pljiyß ?. in French and Engliglv apd \yhjeii is to, he decorated with a, design, from typ •3 versatile artist's owp pencil, T’heso are. truly a prima dope's prices, and compare. jj| somewhat cwtU with %' paltry five. or ten week vrhigh, many tojijuted* y:. actors acd actresses were coptont with,not hrlf-.a-contnry ago. The American ongagCJuynt ia for a hundred representations, y at O'o endof which .Sara returns to, London, to reappear at the Gaiety. There is little | 1 present pnspoct, therefore, of tier paying f. a visit to the Antipodes, nor probably J v , would the same pippfpiary Inducements ■|i lie forthcoming from Australia. It is, If. after all, paying rather dear, for oi)p.'s $£ whistle'. Sara is no. doubt tlp» greatest M living actrce», and it is,a real intellectual 3K treat to ace, her. But imperfect aenpajp,®fence with the language in which, she fljilays must rob the performance of a flereat deal of its. clpirm, and; Ups will too felt by a large proportion of her audience* ip the United Stutce. It would be the same ip Australia, and ■ ( tp radical people opt them will therefore r near with redgnation that they will not ft sea this strange erratic genius jiut yet if & at all.