Word: bernhardts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During one of Sarah Bernhardt's many "farewell" tours he wrote: "To me in every role she is the Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn...
...Brothers Warner have made other concessions: Miss Davis' perpetual, migrainy suffering has been cut to a minimum. This was a bold move, for Hollywood's bug-eyed Bernhardt has won two Oscars and numerous legs on the cup for the U.S. cinema's ablest actress by her portrayals of suffering women. In The Great Lie she is cast as a lively, homespun, slacks-wearing American girl free from her favorite neuroses. Although the picture has her living on a Maryland plantation, it is far enough north to let her waive the absurdities of a Southern accent...
Died. Martin Beck, 71, immigrant dean of vaudeville showmen, who built 65 theatres, brought Sarah Bernhardt to the U. S., ran the old Orpheum circuit for 27 years, retired in 1923 to build and manage his first legitimate theatre, Manhattan's Martin Beck; in Manhattan...
...dashed off to France to entertain the doughboys. How she did it she later told with much gusto in her autobiography, So Far, So Good! "From the fuss that the fellows made over me, I'm sure they thought I must be at least the American edition of Bernhardt. Imagine their surprise when my performance consisted of telling stories filled with hells and damns. . . " The former Sweetheart of the A. E. F. devoted the ensuing years of peace to marrying Actor Gilbert Wilson, getting herself nearly killed in an automobile accident, turning deeply religious, settling down in California, where...
...Shavian homage. A dark, passionate beauty with Italian blood in her veins, she reputedly inspired Burne-Jones to paint, and Kipling to write. The Vampire. In her prime-when she played The Second Mrs.Tanqueray, Magda, Romeo and Juliet, Pelléas and Mélisande-she shared honors with Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry. She knew everybody in England, from Oscar Wilde to Edward VII. She was fearless and formidable, a woman who shared her love letters with the world, who had atrocious manners but a superb air, and a wit that Shaw himself might envy...