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Geraldine Bernhardt's hundred million dollar jewels had been stolen. Two days later the police recovered a wrist watch, part of the booty, which had been pawned. Every reputable paper in the city published the story prominently on its front page. In the story it is told why the recovery of all the booty is believed imminent, how the police expect shortly to have all the criminals in custody, how upset Geraldine Bernhardt is. It is also mentioned that the wrist watch had been recovered in the pawnshop of Sol Horowitz, 12 South Orange...
Next day all the papers bear prominently on their front page the following announcement (or its legal paraphrase) : Yesterday this paper published the statement that Geraldine Bernhardt's wrist watch was found in the pawn shop of Sol. Horowitz, 12 S. Orange...
...REAL SARAH BERNHARDT WHOM HER AUDIENCES NEVER KNEW-Mme. Pierre Berton-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). This absorbing biography of an absorbing personality contains much dramatic material which Sarah purposely omitted from her memoirs. It is a frank and intimate picture of a woman of undoubted genius. And while its author is obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
...have spent years in developing the ultimate perfection of their art. a protective organization which keeps Gwendolyn de vere from being stranded in some Northwestern mining camp excuses itself, but when it might undertake to prevent a public appearance of an artist of the stamp of Sarah Bernhardt or Henri Coquelin because of some minor infringement of its rules, it reaches the height of the ridiculous...