Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geraldine Bernhardt's hundred million dollar jewels had been stolen. Two days later the police recovered a wrist watch, part of the booty, which had been pawned. Every reputable paper in the city published the story prominently on its front page. In the story it is told why the recovery of all the booty is believed imminent, how the police expect shortly to have all the criminals in custody, how upset Geraldine Bernhardt is. It is also mentioned that the wrist watch had been recovered in the pawnshop of Sol Horowitz, 12 South Orange...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
...have spent years in developing the ultimate perfection of their art. a protective organization which keeps Gwendolyn de vere from being stranded in some Northwestern mining camp excuses itself, but when it might undertake to prevent a public appearance of an artist of the stamp of Sarah Bernhardt or Henri Coquelin because of some minor infringement of its rules, it reaches the height of the ridiculous...
...Moreover at a certain period it was one of the most brilliant: several of the most prominent and illustrious lecturers that France has sent to the United States, artists like Sarah Bernhardt,--musicians and renowned politicians have come to Harvard thanks to the Cercle Francais, and under its auspices. The club room of the Cercle in Grays 9 is agreeable, restful and comfortable. Students should go there every day, and many of them should attend the evenings of reunion...
...prominence. Of all the people he knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule...