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...Moreover at a certain period it was one of the most brilliant: several of the most prominent and illustrious lecturers that France has sent to the United States, artists like Sarah Bernhardt,--musicians and renowned politicians have come to Harvard thanks to the Cercle Francais, and under its auspices. The club room of the Cercle in Grays 9 is agreeable, restful and comfortable. Students should go there every day, and many of them should attend the evenings of reunion...
...prominence. Of all the people he knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule...
...jane - But Needs America's Uncanny Showman The horn of France's theatrical plenty is to be opened and two of the choicest bits transferred for brief consumption in America. Réjane, tragedienne who has succeeded Bernhardt in the first place in the hearts of France, will come over within a year; next September comes the Folies Bergeres, parent of our own Follies, Scandals, Passing Show, Vanities...
...then accused Herr Bernhardt, editor of Die Vossiche Zeitung, Sinnes' chief tormenter, of borrowing his own ideas and then " tendentiously, falsely and fraudulently misrepresenting them...
Eleanora Duse, " Bernhardt of Italy ": " As I sailed from France to fulfill a contract with Producer Morris Gest in New York, I explained my trip as a pecuniary necessity. Said I: ' I am literally trembling at the thought of the publicity I am bound to receive on my arrival. All my life I have perhaps been the only actress with a genuine horror of seeing my name in print. I have suffered so much...