_Roubles_ £ _s._ _d._
Pit boxes 120 = 13 0 0
Dress circle boxes (front seats) 150 = 16 5 0
Dress circle (centre box) 180 = 19 10 0
Dress circle front row 72 = 7 15 0
Dress circle 2nd and 3rd rows 60 = 6 10 0
Upper boxes (front) 150 = 16 5 0
Her success was prodigious. Not content with raining flowers on the
stage, ladies in the audience jumped over the partition separating
them from the pit, so that they could approach the great artiste as
closely as possible. She would have received many costly presents had
she not made it known that she would accept nothing but flowers. At
length she tore herself away from her enthusiastic admirers, to whom
she had appeared in _La Princesse Georges_, _Rome Vaincue_, _Hernani_,
_Jean Marie_, and _La Dame aux Camélias_. From St. Petersburg she
went to Warsaw, and thence to Genoa, where she was seized with one of
those sudden attacks which had recurred rather too frequently for some
time past. In the middle of the second act of _La Dame aux Camélias_
she collapsed into a chair with blood pouring from her mouth. The
performance was stopped, but on the following day the indefatigable
woman was _en route_ again. After playing at Bâle and Lausanne, she
gave a series of six performances, beginning on the 16th of February at
Lyons, where she appeared in _Les Faux Ménages_, by Pailleron. Then she
returned to Italy, receiving £240 for each appearance, and meeting with
enthusiastic applause everywhere. She left Italy, and suddenly Paris
was struck dumb by the following extraordinary and totally unexpected
announcement, published by the newspapers on the 8th April--
London.--At eight o’clock this (Tuesday) morning, April 4th, at the
Greek Consulate, Sarah Bernhardt was married to her fellow-actor
_Daria_, who recently took Angelo’s place in her troupe. The news
may appear improbable, seeing that Sarah was at Naples last Friday,
and even performed that evening; but it is none the less a fact
that she left Naples on the following morning, ostensibly for Nice,
took the train on to Paris, and thence to Boulogne, crossed to
Folkestone, and finally reached London, accompanied by M. Damala.
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