Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jane - But Needs America's Uncanny Showman The horn of France's theatrical plenty is to be opened and two of the choicest bits transferred for brief consumption in America. Réjane, tragedienne who has succeeded Bernhardt in the first place in the hearts of France, will come over within a year; next September comes the Folies Bergeres, parent of our own Follies, Scandals, Passing Show, Vanities...
...then accused Herr Bernhardt, editor of Die Vossiche Zeitung, Sinnes' chief tormenter, of borrowing his own ideas and then " tendentiously, falsely and fraudulently misrepresenting them...
Eleanora Duse, " Bernhardt of Italy ": " As I sailed from France to fulfill a contract with Producer Morris Gest in New York, I explained my trip as a pecuniary necessity. Said I: ' I am literally trembling at the thought of the publicity I am bound to receive on my arrival. All my life I have perhaps been the only actress with a genuine horror of seeing my name in print. I have suffered so much...
Eleanora Duse, Italian actress, is generally conceded a solitary niche of honor at the forefront of the players of the world. So amazing is her art that she will stand in shadowy greatness with Mrs. Siddons, David Garrick, Salvini, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt. She plays only in Italian...
...eager spirit. For years she would use no makeup. She preferred to make her entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor. All her life she shunned publicity. Bernard Shaw declared her incomparably the superior of Bernhardt, after witnessing their rival interpretations of La Dame aux Camellias...