Sacha GUITRY. Autograph manuscript, Félix Huguenet, [1926]; 6pages in-4. Beautiful text on theater in tribute to the famous actor who died on November 19, 1926. Guitry evokes the career of this great comedian, who moved from comedy to drama: "Powerful when he needed to be, jovial, tender, light, funny and never vulgar, he had a rare knowledge of his means, a sometimes excessive mistrust of himself and the greatest respect for his Art". He goes on to talk about the pain of an actor's decline, and relates an anecdote: he and his father were supposed to go and see Sarah Bernhardt who, at the end of her life, had wanted to play Athalie, but Lucien Guitry withdrew at the last minute and asked his son to telephone him from the theater "as soon as she has played an act, and if she is well, I will come straight away"... The theatrical world is "cruel and sometimes implacable", but "if for a moment I'm disgusted by it, I look at other worlds - and quickly return to the fold. Our vanities, our jealousies, our resentments, even our hatreds aren't very unsympathetic, in the end, because they never have but one cause: the love we have for our profession, a clumsy, misplaced love - but love nonetheless. And all the more violent because it's usually thwarted at birth. Few families willingly subscribe to this "vocation". Whether your father is a magistrate or a ragpicker, he'll always think that his child is going off the rails by 'getting on the boards'". But the letters Guitry receives from young people who want to go into the theater are "ardent, passionate, moving. There is nothing but theater in these letters, and yet they seem like love letters"...