Alfred De Musset, it is said, remarked to i Rachel one night after a performance of < Voltaire's • Tancrede,' ' I noticed Kachel, in | your personation of to-night in ." Tancrede," that one o£ your gestures impressed me as being sublime.' ' Then it must have been } very bad,' responded Rachel, hastily. ' Why { so ?' asked De Musset, surprised. ' Because, | if one of my gestures particularly attracted ] your attention, it could not have been natural— but must (have been artistic. My itudy is to act^naturally nofc artieti- ] oally. 1 J
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Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 234, 2 March 1883, Page 6
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