[The Idler in France by Marguerite Gardiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Idler in France CHAPTER XII 2/9
Her countenance, too, is peculiarly expressive.
Even when her eyes, in the _role_ she enacted last night, were fixed, and supposed to be sightless, her countenance was still beautiful.
There is a harmony in its various expressions that accords perfectly with her clear, soft, and liquid voice; and the united effect of both these attractions renders her irresistible. Never did Art so strongly resemble Nature as in the acting of this admirable _artiste_.
She identifies herself so completely with the part she performs, that she not only believes herself for the time being the heroine she represents, but makes others do so too.
There was not a dry eye in the whole of the female part of the audience last night--a homage to her power that no other actress on the French stage could now command. The style, too, of Mademoiselle Mars' acting is the most difficult of all; because there is no exaggeration, no violence in it.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|