Word: bernhardts
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...only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities? The distaff side seems never to have been illustrious twice running, possibly for the reason that most women acquire fame by being either too "good" or too "bad" to have a domestic side...
...celebrated actress, perfumed with a past. Nothing is more likely to bark the temperamental shins. Actresses' lives are admittedly artificial. To paint them up additionally with wire-strung acting is to paint the lily. So, when Doris Keane, in Gladys Unger's play, essayed a role faintly redolent of Bernhardt, she invited the lightning...
...repertoire opened with L'Aiglon, written by Edmond Rostand for Bernhardt. Following the example of that great actress, Mme. Simone plays the leading male rôle, that of Napoleon's son. She will follow with Naked, a play by Pirandello, new to America. For the third week, the play will be Mme. Sans-Gêne Classics will complete the repertoire...
Divorced. Lysiane Bernhardt Verneuil (granddaughter of the late Sarah Bernhardt) and Louis Verneuil, playwright; on grounds of "mutual fault," at Paris...
...glory and tragedy of Duse's life centered on Gabriele D'Annunzio, with whose name hers is linked forever. Many considered her the greatest actress of her day; others ranked her second to Sarah Bernhardt. In Italy, she was supreme...