[GUILBERT YVETTE]: (1865-1944) French Cabaret Singer & Actress of the Belle Epoque. An interesting A.L.S., Schiller ...

[GUILBERT YVETTE]: (1865-1944) French Cabaret Singer & Actress of the Belle Epoque. An interesting A.L.S., Schiller, by her husband Dr. Max Schiller (1860-1952), three pages, 8vo, Badgastein, 16th July 1932, to 'Dearest friends' (apparently a physician, Sir Henry, and his wife), on the printed stationery of the Grand Hotel de L'Europe. Schiller announces 'It is worth while to get the Croix de la Legion d'Honneur if it gives you a chance to hear from so very dear friends' and continues to add that he and Guilbert are in Badgastein to heal their rheumatism, remarking 'Yvette has it almost continually and I have every year my two attacks of sciatica. I do not complain with 71 years on his shoulders one has to be satisfied and as to Yvette her rheumatism does not prevent her to do as she is used to do an immense, immense work. But she is well rewarded. I do not speak of the Croix de la Legion. Her reward is a continuous success. We finished before leaving Paris a series of almost consecutive ten concerts in Paris which were all sold out. It looked as if Paris had seen her for the first time. And then she looks wonderful, well and hardly shows her age. It must be certainly the effect of Sir Henry's treatment years ago'. Schiller adds that they had intended to go to London to appear at the St. Martin's Theatre, but decided against it, and attempts to persuade his correspondents to visit, 'I wish you and the Doctor would make up your mind and to spend here a few weeks. The waters are so rejuvenating…..Sir Henry would return to England a new born man and his patients would have a new Doctor, although he did not ''buy British''…..on the way to or back from Gastein you could see a few magnificent performances in Salzburg which would fill with joy your ''theatrical'' heart'. Some very light, minor creasing and one small split to the edge of a fold, VG £80-100 Yvette Guilbert had been awarded the Legion d'Honneur, as the Ambassadress of French Song, on 9th July 1932, just a week before the present letter was written.