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...named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish, who appeared last week in Manhattan in the Dumas classic...
Cheshire House puts out Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with etchings by Bernhardt Wall ($18); Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher ($15) with a frightening frontispiece, other wood-engravings by Abner Epstein...
Died. Harry Lafayette Reichenbach, 49, press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after...
...years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve made hers. Her friends included Gounod, with whom she studied Marguerite, Verdi when he was old and gnarled, Sarah Bernhardt who gave her points in acting and taught her makeup, Oscar Wilde who after his disgrace begged money of her on a Paris street. She sang duets with King Oscar II of Sweden. She was made Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in consideration of £100,000 earned...
...begun in 1853 as a service between terminals in Chicago, has carried the person or baggage of almost all people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many years through Chicago's crosstown streets. A special bus, No. 55, is known as "The Presidential Coach" and is always kept...