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First baseman Pete Bernhardt was three for five at bat and got three RBI's to lead the team. Second baseman Dan DeMichele also went three for five...
...Hollywood superstars - Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, Edwin Booth - survived in legend and, perhaps fortunately for them, their greatness has to be taken on faith by posterity. But Chaplin, Garbo, the Barrymores and other film greats survive on celluloid, and in the movie houses or on TV's late, late shows, their legends are constantly up for review...
There is no doubt that the great Sarah Bernhardt was the most fabled theatrical personality of her time. For nearly 61 years she captured the world's theaters and left her audiences enchanted, even though toward the end she was a grotesquely overpainted, raddled old crone. Her memoirs and a dozen biographies contain such a hodgepodge of legend that it is often hard to decide whether Bernhardt was truly a gifted actress or merely a canny show-woman. In this effervescent biography, Cornelia Otis Skinner, herself an actress and writer (Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals), expertly sorts...
...nose overlong, her face hollow-cheeked and colorless, and she always emphasized her pallor by slathering on white powder. In an era when the feminine ideal was a dimpled and cushiony Venus, she was skinny as a slat. "An empty carriage pulled up at the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt got out," said one wit. A columnist declared that "she never needed an umbrella-she was thin enough to walk between the drops." Dumas the younger, who knew Sarah well because she appeared for years in his Lady of the Camellias and made wads of money for both of them...
...Bernhardt was 15 when the Duc de Morny, one of her mother's lovers, arranged for her to study at the French Conservatoire. Two years later, she was in the Comedie Franchise, and was acquiring a reputation as a tempestuous prima donna. By the time she was 20, she had taken a lover and given birth to an illegitimate son. Then began the long parade: short runs with a vast assortment of lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine...