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...yard dash--Won by Bernhardt (T); second, Johnson (T); third, H. Thayer, (H). Time...
...said she-"I'm just waiting for it to come any time now." Long crippled, she had been living alone with three cats; now she has a day & night nurse. But she is still holding out for a $150,000 offer for her life story. That was Sarah Bernhardt's price, said she, and "in a way, I was as famous...
...psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
Sporadic Shakespeare Festivals at Stratford go back as far as 1769. Since becoming an annual tradition, they have not only given the Bard perhaps his fullest hearing anywhere, but have taxed the talents of actors such as Sarah Bernhardt (as Hamlet), Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. And they have meant pageantry as well as playacting...
...Sarah Bernhardt's 1918 recording of Prayer for Our Enemies, made when the late great queen of tragediennes was 73, was heard (over Station WMCA) by U.S. radio listeners for the first time. Excerpt: They have revived a brutal way of living-Of murder, and pillaging and fire . . . Their covenants they tear to tiny shreds. To Thee who knows their inmost rage and cunning We pray with anguished hearts and heads laid low. Thou who their inmost souls and thoughts can view, Forgive them not-they know well what they...