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Sunday, June 12, 2005
2 Marie Rambert quotes
'Quicksilver' p31 [retrospect nearly 70 years laterof 1905]
'Soon after I arrived in Paris, my uncle took me to an exhibition of very modern painting -- no doubt it was the Salon des Indépendants, and it was full of gret impressionist masterpieces. but we hated it heartily, and my uncle said: 'It's a mockery'.
at what was announced as the last appearance of Sarah Bernhardt -- 'of course, she was to make a few other last appearances later on'
pp.30 -31 'When the great Sarah came on to the stage and started speaking I nearly burst out laughing, and so did my aunt -- though she was a woman who had very little humour -- because the vocie sounded so cracked and so funny. Yet after a few seconds you did not hear the crack in the voice, yoiu just heard the golden voice, which was something of incredible beauty. Everything she was saying became so convincing...'
'Soon after I arrived in Paris, my uncle took me to an exhibition of very modern painting -- no doubt it was the Salon des Indépendants, and it was full of gret impressionist masterpieces. but we hated it heartily, and my uncle said: 'It's a mockery'.
at what was announced as the last appearance of Sarah Bernhardt -- 'of course, she was to make a few other last appearances later on'
pp.30 -31 'When the great Sarah came on to the stage and started speaking I nearly burst out laughing, and so did my aunt -- though she was a woman who had very little humour -- because the vocie sounded so cracked and so funny. Yet after a few seconds you did not hear the crack in the voice, yoiu just heard the golden voice, which was something of incredible beauty. Everything she was saying became so convincing...'
Posted by: Tony Green / 11:03 AM 
