Mortier afterwards turned his tention to theatrical management tourned Europe and America with Mme. Adelina Part sleeping more than two nights in any one city and always in a hurry.
French playwrights who have since attained celebrity.
"Another successful enterprise of IMortier's was the Theatre Michel, fin the Rue des Capucines, to which the gave his own Christian name.
He had a good heart and few enemies. During the disastrous floods in 1910, when the water invaded the Thédtre des Capucines Jand made any performance imposble, Mortier gazed -reproachfully fat the damage and said: "To think that the Seine should have treated me so badly! I never did it any
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