Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repertoire opened with L'Aiglon, written by Edmond Rostand for Bernhardt. Following the example of that great actress, Mme. Simone plays the leading male rôle, that of Napoleon's son. She will follow with Naked, a play by Pirandello, new to America. For the third week, the play will be Mme. Sans-Gêne Classics will complete the repertoire...
Divorced. Lysiane Bernhardt Verneuil (granddaughter of the late Sarah Bernhardt) and Louis Verneuil, playwright; on grounds of "mutual fault," at Paris...
...glory and tragedy of Duse's life centered on Gabriele D'Annunzio, with whose name hers is linked forever. Many considered her the greatest actress of her day; others ranked her second to Sarah Bernhardt. In Italy, she was supreme...
Next day all the papers bear prominently on their front page the following announcement (or its legal paraphrase) : Yesterday this paper published the statement that Geraldine Bernhardt's wrist watch was found in the pawn shop of Sol. Horowitz, 12 S. Orange...
...REAL SARAH BERNHARDT WHOM HER AUDIENCES NEVER KNEW-Mme. Pierre Berton-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). This absorbing biography of an absorbing personality contains much dramatic material which Sarah purposely omitted from her memoirs. It is a frank and intimate picture of a woman of undoubted genius. And while its author is obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow...