From one form of art to another, and there is nothing more perfectly native and original than the art of Mme Yvette Guilbert, who has been givin a recital in London. She has so long a popular favourite that back as in 1882 she was car captured by Toulouse Lautrec in hei Own caricature of "The English Mees" Yet, though well over 70, she does not depend on revivals of past success, but is continually finding out new modes, and she actually makes use of the inevitable deficient cies that age has brought to the upper notes of her voice in order ie get new special effects. In this week's recital she began with a lecture on Paul Verlaine, reading irom manuscript while seated at a table; it was a considerable time before she got up to sing. But the lecture presented pictures as vivid as a play.
It is all the way she uses her voice, which is, with the unrivalled artistic genius behind it, her only instrument. She stands almost motionless, now a queen of tragedy, now a miserable prisoner in gaol, now an impudent guttersnipe, all done by magical in-flexions of the voice. It should do Our modern actors and actresses a world of good to go to school with Mme Yvette Guilbert just to learn what the voice can be; which most of them have forgotten.
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