Marie DESCLAUZAS (1841-1912), actress. Vintage print on albu - Lot 456

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Marie DESCLAUZAS (1841-1912), actress. Vintage print on albu - Lot 456
Marie DESCLAUZAS (1841-1912), actress. Vintage print on albumen paper, business card size, 10.5 x 6 cm. Malvina Ernestine Armand, known as Marie Desclauzas. Her play full of finesse, verve and gaiety made her win brilliant successes in many fairy-tales, operettas and comedies. Mahalin disagrees: With her nose flapping under the tickle of an imaginary coryza, the copious Mademoiselle Lange, in La Fille de Madame Angot, always looks as if she is about to sneeze... This is so true, that as soon as she enters the stage, the spectators pull out their handkerchiefs... And, look, just thinking about it, I feel like I'm catching a cold... Atch!... Atch!... Atchi!.. God bless me! ! This pretty enchantress made her debut, - in 1859, - at the Cirque du boulevard du Temple in Héloïse et Abélard, the drama by Anicet Bourgeois. She played Heloise (...) Jenneval played Abelard. At that time, she was called, on the poster, Mademoiselle D'ESCLOZAS big as Clarisse Miroy. Seeing her fill her roles so gaily, who would suspect that Mademoiselle DESCLAUZAS was shy and skinny? This thinness was such, - in the past, - that a friend of mine said to me: - I would only allow myself this woman on Good Friday without scruples. Nowadays, she would be made into a fat day! (Mahalin, Jolies Actrices, 2nd series, 1878, pp. 135-136).
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