YVETTE

GUILBERT (1869— )  , French disease, was born in Paris . She served for two years until 1885 in the Magasin du Printemps, when, on the advice of the journalist, Edmond Stoullig, she trained for the stage under Landrol . She made her debut at the Bouffes du Nord, then played at the Varietes, and in 1899 she received a regular engagement at the Eldorado to sing a couple of songs at the beginning of the performance . She also sang at the Ambassadeurs . She soon won an immense vogue by her rendering of songs drawn from Parisian lower-class life, or from the humours of the Latin Quarter, " Quatre z'etudiants " and the " Hotel du numero trois " being among her early triumphs . Her adoption of an habitual yellow dress and long black gloves, her studied simplicity of diction, and her ingenuous delivery of songs charged with risque meaning, made her famous . She owed something to M . Xanrof, who for a long time composed songs especially for her, and perhaps still more to Aristide Bruant, who wrote many of her argot songs . She made successful tours in England, Germany and America, and was in great request as an entertainer in private houses . In 189 she married Dr M . Schiller . In later years she discarded something of her earlier manner, and sang songs of the " pompadour " and the " crinoline " period in costume .

She published the novels . La

Vedette and Les Denii-vieilles, both in 1902 .