Word: berton
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...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...