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Eleanora Duse, Italian actress, is generally conceded a solitary niche of honor at the forefront of the players of the world. So amazing is her art that she will stand in shadowy greatness with Mrs. Siddons, David Garrick, Salvini, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt. She plays only in Italian...
...eager spirit. For years she would use no makeup. She preferred to make her entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor. All her life she shunned publicity. Bernard Shaw declared her incomparably the superior of Bernhardt, after witnessing their rival interpretations of La Dame aux Camellias...
Launched at Leeds in 1893, she was sold soon afterwards to become the private yacht of Sarah Bernhardt, who christened her Cleopatra. She was Sappho to her next owner, A. S. Barber, and Penelope later to H. E. Converse...
...sale of Sarah Bernhardt's art pieces was not notable for high prices paid. Dealers bid only on the intrinsic artistic value...
...Sarah's Food Boss Is Here to Diet Us" was the way Mr. Hearst's New York Journal announced the arrival in this country of Dr. Julie La Salle Stevens, of Paris, former dietitian of Sarah Bernhardt. She proposes to impart to the American populace some of the dietetic principles which made the divine actress one of the seven wonders of the modern world for her vitality at an advanced age. Bernhardt's diet was simple and salutary - orange juice, stewed fruit, eggs, whole wheat bread, baked potatoes, salads, etc. Many Americans are undeniably foolish eaters...