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...said that "La du Barry, Maitresse de Roi" was written for Madame Cecile Sorel by Messieurs Aderer and Ephraim. It seems scarcely credible. At any rate it is the play chosen to show her off to greatest advantage before American audiences. She has elected to play it seven times this week, and "Camille" only twice. Whatever the vehicle in which she apears, Boston is favored of the god in having her at the Opera House for even so short a time, but it seems a maestros pity that some play of less pictorial and elementary nature might not have been...
...Maitresse de Roi" is nothing if not graphic. There is great beauty in its stage designing, a meticulous eye for details, and more than an attempt at recalling the best of French art in the little scenes within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves...
Lovers of the theatre have a treat in store for them at the Boston Orera House. Mme Cecile Sorel, reading French actress of the day, is playing Mme du Barry in "Maitresse de Roi." At the matinee on Friday Mme Sorel will play the title role in Camilie. She is heralded as the greatest actress on the French stage, if not in the world at the present time one worthy of wear the mantle of Duse and the Divine Sarah...
...simpler people who sit in the gallery of the theatre are more expressive than the elegant class which sits below," said Cecile Sorel, star of the Comedie Francaise, who appears this week at the Boston Opera House in the historical play "Maitresse de Roi", to a CRIMSON reporter last night in her suite at the Copley-Plaza. "It is to these people that the soul of the artist goes out. We need more simple people. Th American people understand with their hearts. They understand everything, because they feel so strongly...
...Mais certainement, here is my license," smiled the begoggled motorcyclist. "Mon dieu, Le Roi!" cried the gendarme. "Ah, Votre Majeste...