Another act, this time comic, Le Coin de feu, is a faithful
and amusing study of the bourgeoisie, written by Tarride and Vernayre. M.
Burguet and Mlle Mylo d'Arcylle are perfect in it.
And allow us to point out in passing the efforts of a young debutante,
Mlle de Mornand, who was able to to create a role all of her own out of a
fairly minor part.
Le Figaro 28 May 1903. .
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 29 May 1903: "[...] But I need to
bring you up to date with my endeavours. You will no doubt have read the
little note in this morning's Figaro. As for the Gaulois
I sent a young writer there yesterday, M. de Croisset. This is what he
came back with. So we will have a Martin Gale then... I'm going to speak
to the editor about it and then I think we will get it.
I'm not forgetting about Le Temps, Les Débats, Le
Soleil or the Revue d'art dramatique. So that
I don't bore you all the time with my letters I won't keep telling you
about my attempts, but every time I get something inserted I'll cut it
out of the paper and post it to you. I don't need to tell you that if,
in the words of Croisset, he has heard that the notes about the
Mathurins in the Gaulois don't come for nothing, that doesn't
mean to say that if I pay I can put in whatever I like. So I beg you not
to think it was through any sordid avarice that I backed away from that!
But this means (as was explained to me the other day at the Figaro)
that the notes are paid for by the Mathurins and then they
only put in what the theatre sends them in a note and don't want to make
any exceptions where every artist can come and ask for a word about
themselves. But the editor at the Figaro had promised to
override that for me in any case. [ ...]"
From Beaussant Lefèvre, 10 July 2017, Lot 1.
Created 03.09.19