In her teens she returned to Paris, where she livad in great poverty, re lieved by occasional visits to tho theatre. Her mother thought to make a seamstress of her, but Sara's bias for the stage over came this intention, and tho young woman was entered a pupil at tho Conservatoire, where sho won the rirsfc prize for tragedy, and thus earned the right to a debut at the Theatre Francais. Remarkable as it may now seem, herearliest ef'orts were unsuccessful. Sho had been in tiie proies.-ion more than eighteen years ociore she was cast into \ictor Hugos "Hernani." Then was her opportunity. She took Paris by storm, and her subsequent career has been a suc cession of artistic triumphs. In 1879 she appeared in London, in the United States in 1880-81. Sho began a brief managerial experience in Paris in 1888, and soon proved herself to be a poor business woman. Nature gave her genius, bub not financial ability. Since the early summer labt year ahe has been in America. Sara left her husband—M. Demala, a (Jroek, to whom she was married in 18t3'<2 — soon after the cere mony. Her greatness, it may be interesting to know, was not attained without a struggle. Graduating at the ago of eighteen from the Paris Conservatoire, ehe was entitled to make her dobut at the Francais. It was a miserable failuro, as was also her appearance at the Gymtiasc, Then Sara turned in and worked with dogged perseverance. Fivo years spent at a hccond'-class theatre gave her the oppor tunity of acquiring a complete knowledge of her art, and after two years more, in 1869, her Zanefcte, in Coppee'a "Passant," gave her a. Parisian celebrity. She was then twenty-five years of age. Two years later the mado her re ■ en trance at the Corned ie Francai?o, when ?he rose rapidly to a leading posi tion. To-day she stands without a peer in France or any other country. It is not re markable, then, that her appearance in tho United Strttes this year, for unquestion ably the last time, should excite more in terest throughout the world of art enthu siasts than any other event of the decade. The American tour was a triumphant success from New York to San Francisco. 