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Then she tries to portray the nymphet Juliet. Now Sarah Bernhardt, Miss Marriott, and Siobhan McKenna have all played the role of Hamlet (the last with a good deal of success, I can personally testify). But then Miss Hayes comes along trying to be Ulysses, of all things--and with Evans sitting not five feet away...
...Make Love (20th Century-Fox] brings Marilyn Monroe on-screen with an entrance that should make historians of the drama forget Bernhardt's exits. The viewer sees the stage of a Greenwich Village theater, and in its center, a shiny fire pole. Clinging to it as if to her last shred of resistance before an engulfing passion is Marilyn, rigged out in black tights. Languorously she slides down the pole, uncoils, arranges her lips in Schlitz position and murmurs, "My name is. Lolita. And I'm not supposed to. Play. With boys." Then she begins to sing...
...Century, shows (for the first time outside an Amsterdam film archive) a sequence in which Mrs. Alfred Dreyfus leaves the Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie...
...coming-out party. Especially famed as a Gilbert and Sullivan singer and dancer, Green was soon informed that the Actors' Fund will provide him with an artificial leg so that he may again "bring joy and laughter to the stage." Having recalled recently that Actress Sarah Bernhardt carried on her career for some years with an artificial leg, Actor Green fought back tears, assured all: "As soon as I can, I will dance on that...
...primary law of nature," Adams had said, and in 1877 he and Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier, Marian gathered the famous but never the infamous. Hearing that Sarah Bernhardt, whose private life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created...