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...coast, and it is one of the places the French have managed to conceal from tourists. They go there themselves, especially in August, but even then it is not crowded on the sandy beaches, protected by rocky cliffs, off which there is excellent sailing, fishing, swimming and skindiving. Sarah Bernhardt had a house there, and there is still an occasional theatrical or intellectual visitor who is delighted to discover hotels such as Manoir de Goulphar with a view of the sea from every one of its rooms...
...come to be attached to the stylistic spinsterism and tiny ironies of both sexes, there is a temptation to miscall the writing of Shirley Ann Grau masculine. It is not, although the author has no trouble bringing to stage center a male in whom there is no sense of Bernhardt corseted as Hamlet...
...Bernhardt to the Rescue. It was on Dec. 26, 1894, that 34-year-old Alphonse Mucha, shaggy-haired and bearded, got his big break in Paris. He had learned to draw before he could walk, and his mother used to tie a necklace of crayons around his neck so that he could exercise his talent whenever he wanted. But for all that talent and for all his study, Mucha was getting nowhere. Then, out of the blue, Actress Sarah Bernhardt came to the rescue. She urgently needed a new poster to advertise her new play. The theater manager telephoned...
...world quickly became familiar with Mucha's larger-than-life posters of Bernhardt in her many roles, from Hamlet to Camille. He also designed advertisements and even menus; and when Czechoslovakia became a nation, Moravia-born Mucha designed its first stamps and bank notes...
...foot beats, and led his sextet into Bells and Horns, The Ballad of the Sad Young Men and Pony Express. The style was somewhere between Dixieland and progressive, and it seemed to bewilder some of the young folks. But it really sent Jackie. Afterward she confided to Pianist Warren Bernhardt: "I could hardly keep from wiggling around like you on the piano bench." Said she to Leader Winter: "That was wonderful. Simply wonderful. We've never had anything like it here." Said Winter of Jackie's tribute: "That knocked...