Word: sorel
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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...
With all of its mannered excellence the play is not satisfying, no more satisfying than Madame Sorel herself. She has been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction...
...that they seem parts of a never ending tapestry. Every gesture made upon the stage, and every inflection, beckons the audiences' interest on. Mannequins and dandys, cardinal and king, jeweler and soldier, lover and lady-in-waiting make their bows and their requests and are dismissed. Here, if ever, Sorel is superb...
...Cecile Sorel, who off the stage is the Madame la Countess de Segur, speaks very little English and the conversation was carried on through the medium of her secretary...
...Cecile Sorel said she thought Florence Reed and Ethel Barrymore were two of America's greatest actresses, that Gloria Swanson was a great artist, and Charlie Chaplin a genius. "America has the greatest cinema in the world," she stated. "My one regret is that the art of the great Duse is not perpetuated by the films...