Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the more important revivals of the London season are Pinero's The Gay Lord Quex and Sudermann's Magda. The latter was played by Sarah Bernhardt in 1895, and Duse, then in London, put it on a few days later. Within a year Mrs. Pat Campbell also gave it, and the records of these three performances were preserved for posterity by Bernard Shaw in his Dramatic Opinions and Essays...
Frank Harris, critic and publisher: " On my 68th birthday in Paris I told an American reporter: 'I have come to Paris because I am going to put anything I want in my stomach. . . . Forty years ago I was in Paris. I knew Sarah Bernhardt and Guy de Maupassant. I drank then and I have been drinking ever since...
...intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais, she left it after repeated quarrels. Her greatest part was probably that of Zanzetti in Coppee's Le Paseant. She has appeared in over 200 roles, among them Hamlet and her other celebrated masculine part, l'Aiglon. Bernhardt was almost fanatically patriotic, and engaged extensively in war work both in the War of 1870 and the World War. It was during the latter that she was forced to have her leg amputated, an operation to which she submitted with spirits unimpaired. She died cheerfully, jesting with those about...
Died: Sarah Bernhardt, 78, of an infection of the kidneys, at Paris. (See page...
...Sarah Bernhardt is an immortal artist in various senses. She has recovered from her recent supposedly fatal illness. Her first performance after her recovery will be in The Sphinx, by Maurice Rostand, son of Edmond Rostand, famous author of Cyrano de Bergerac, Chanticler, L'Aiglon...