It was no wonder that girl avoided.
Indeed, he came from a childhood under the effects of a clear and powerful theatrical vocation. When the visitors left the house, he imitated them with success and grace. He exhibited such a memory that, once he read a page, he recited it almost without fail. The father was unemployed due to a strike and the displeasure injured his heart; she, an amateur actress, asked for this reason and for the first time.
In a similar context, the manager of Romea asked a critical friend to find a young woman to play the secondary role of the ingenue. He took the assignment seriously, and he immediately recognized himself attracted by the singular work of a girl in a vulgar scene on Carrer Mercaders.
Once the recommendation was made, the manager wanted to make sure and went to Grà cia’s theater where she was acting in a Zola drama. He was taken aback and hired her after overcoming her father’s stubborn refusal.
She did not hesitate to reveal at the time that she had no interest in the role they were offering her, and dared to ask not only for Mar i cel, but to play the role of the leading actress instead of the secondary one: young lady. He was not so out of his mind, because he had already worked successfully with other dramas of the great Guimerà .
At just 18 years old, he burst onto the Romea stage for the first time. Her legs didn’t shake and she didn’t get stage fright, as the challenge, given her firmness, courage and confidence, boosted her powerful creative energy. The public realized right from the start that it was facing the birth of an actress called to exhibit a stellar dimension; and also criticism, which emphasized the expressive power of both his gesture and his word.
Very soon it had the opportunity to pass into the hands of the original master Adrià Gual, who immediately felt the emotion of having a very valuable rough diamond in his hands. In his memoirs, he traces the profile of the young actress with great precision.
The scandal of an erotic Salomé was anecdotal, as it soon jumped from Catalan theater to Spanish, and thus Xirgu undertook the tempting conquest of Latin America and Madrid.
