Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncomfortable luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with Bernhardt, Modjeska, Rejane, Duse, Rehan and thus with Ellen Terry, who, a Dame of the Grand Order of the British Empire, the last of her peers, died last week, at 80, in an old house near the tiny town of Small Hythe, England...
Died. Maria Guerrero de Diaz de Mendoza, famed star of Spanish and South American stages, sometimes called "the Sarah Bernhardt of Spain," in Madrid...
Sued for Divorce. Lucien Muratore, 49, onetime actor with Réjane and Bernhardt, more recently famed as tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera Association; by Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, in Paris. In 1912 she divorced Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson of John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore...
Revival. Murray Phillips will soon present a revival of Madame X. This was a favorite vehicle of Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Terry and many another famed tragedienne. When Pauline Frederick returned to the legitimate theatre in England recently, she chose it for her play, was rewarded with an ovation (TIME, March 14). In the present revival Carroll McComas will play the title role, supported by Rex Cherryman, late of The Noose cast...
Whether "Magda" would seem like the great play it does without a Madame Kalich or a Sarah Bernhardt is open to serious question. The part of Magda was created for a great actress--what it would be without one we fortunately are not called upon to determine. Madame Kalich in every way measures up to the difficult requirements of a part, which to be great demands greatness in its interpretation. Trained as she has been in the careful school of the French theatre, she displays a perfection, a precision in the sightest detail of the dramatic art which is rarely...