THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF AN ACTRESS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3602, 13 July 1880, Page 2

THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF AN ACTRESS.

The public is at last satisfied, ts*t it has had quite enough of Sarah BerahiM|> *. whims and oddities. In her.man&JlF'W * the observed of all observers;, she* has in ' her late escapade over»shot the/mark; then people in' this republican age. dislike • every attempt at autocracy, whether from rulers or spoiled actresses. Faorf.jthe •<_ baritone singer, believed Paris w*>uhjgo -V into hysterics the day he would leave the. opera: three grave Academicians toade tools of themselves by calling oabim, and begging he would withdrawhisresigna* , . tion; he refused.; and he- is now a wandering minstrel, by the world forgot. Manuel has eclipsed him., 8d with Sarah Bernhardt; her airs and caprices at the v \ Theatre Francais kept that house in '{ perpetual, hot water. She .came to I rehearsals only when she pleased, and refused even, to perform when the spirit moved her. She has positively proved a failure in the part of Cloride in Ensile Angier's " Adventuriere.". She mistook ' the role, as a critic very plainly told tor, for that of the coarse .Virginia, i* 2oiaV , nasty " Assommoir," and hence her/sosoeptibility. She threw her resignatiott at the head of the manager, as she'did before, and has decamped. This, time it will be : accepted: the Theatre Franeais can de> without her, but she cannot dVfwith> out that first of theatres. The public ; funds have not been affected by her irascibility. The truth of the attur is - this: Two rising stars, Miles. Barietjind ''- Dulay, were rapidly treading on her piedij . to say nothing of her arch-foe; Oroixette; further, her pecuniary position is not s1 brilliant. She has lately disported her acceptances in court, and, being free, counts upon making her fortune; <by ft series of star engagements in England and America. There is a method in her madness.—Our Paris lietter.