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...taken a grass-skirt story of a native girl in love with a visiting American. After various struggles with his girl from America and Aloma's coffee-colored lover, it turns out, miraculously, that she is really a white girl after all. Miss Gray, while no Bernhardt, holds up her end of the acting capably enough. She also shimmies boldly and with emphasis. That, after all, is her life work and the thing she seems to do with more attractive violence than anyone else in the world...
...lure her to the U.S. Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni, persuaded her, would she set sail? she and her three maids, eight dogs and 42 trunks in an entourage reminiscent of Sarah Bernhardt, who once heard her sing in private and told her she would some day be "as great as I think...
...Melba excruciatingly funny. There is nothing about the practical Melba, the Melba who promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped...
...foreigners visiting us. The so-called 'moral turpitude' of the Countess Cathcart is nothing compared to the 'moral turpitude' of the chasing but not chaste Prince of Wales. Why was he allowed to enter? His parents are up all night worrying about his night life. How about Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanore Duse? They made no bones about their affairs and were admitted. Gaby Deslys was no novice in the art of 'moral turpitude.' She was admitted and feted...
Last week Mrs. Harrison appeared in court again. She told how for some time she had been missing various articles: pins, rings, linen, gold chains, diamond chains, bracelets, antique combs. When her maid Anna Bernhardt, aged 23, last week gave notice, Mrs. Harrison became suspicious. She called in the police. Detectives Gallagher and Murtha strolled over from the East 104th Police Station (her apartment is at 1160 Fifth Ave., the corner of 97th St.). They searched the maid's room and found the missing articles. In court Miss Bernhardt wept on her mistress' shoulder, asked for a chance to prove...