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ARA B1-31NHARDT like whom
there probably never wu an
otherla to be at the Brandels
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next Sunday night. It la an
nounced as "positively her last
appearance," and In this caae
ther does not appear to be much chance
j to discount the announcement.. Mine.
Buiardt has. up to this time, succeeded
isost admirably In defeating the natural
encroachments of Time, and has laughed
j or aoorned away all his assaults that make
, ordinary woman old when she tells
j only a fairly Jong tale of years. Madame
; Sara is now, as for two generations al
most, in a class peculiarly alone, not only
as an aotress, but as a woman. Expend
ing boundless energy In her arduous pro
fession sines very young womanhood
studying like a fiend and acting like an
angel; directing, managing, passing artis
tic lodgment on each smallest detail; liv
ing to the highest limit the few hours of
j daylight aha has been willing to enjoy,
ana (Burning uie candle without stint when
not slMpinir. she Is
th embodiment of
reported to be still
high-power acting.
graceful, vlmful, unsparing of self, Incom
parable in her technique. .
Fifth Tim Here.
This will be the fifth appearance of the
really great Frenchwoman In Omaha. She
cama first In the 'SOs, appearing at the old
Boyd Opera house. Her second appear
anoe was at tbs new-Boyd in the season
of '90-'W. She appeared In the new Boyd
again on February 6, 1901, when she pre
sented "La Tosca," tha play In whioh
Sardou has "played on all the keys of hu
man passion," aa The Bee critic wrote at
that time. Her last stop in Omaha was
on February V, 1908, when she played
XJamlle" at the Auditorium. In The Bee
it was set forth frankly that this was
Mm a Bernhardt's "flrvt farewell" visit to
ttnaha. and now she Is to give her last
farewell. "lAlglon" will be the play at
tha Brandels.
At her last performance In Omaha the
peerless exponent of the dramatic art was
greeted by an audience described as "The
i largest ever assembled In Omaha to wit
ness a dramatic performance."
Sine she Is to be seen In Omaha for
tha last time, something of Bernhardt's
j antecedents and career will be of interest.'
She was born In Paris In October, 1844. and
lacks but little of touching the Biblical
tapellne of life's race.. She Is a Jewess, as
j history sets It down, of French and Dutch
I parentage. The French element In her
' makeup would account for her tremendous
temperament, and her wearing qualities.
and power of application, might be at
tributed to tha Teutonic ancestor. By her
father's wish Roslne (her baptismal name)
was baptised and brought up In the
.Christian faith, receiving her education In
a convent. Her cleverness was a thing of
early growth, for at 14 she entered the
Paris conservatoire. Shortly she had gained
prises for both tragedy and comedy, and In
1862, at 18, made her debut at the Theater
Francois. She became discouraged In de
gree, because she thought her merit was
not sufficiently recognised, and undertook
burlesque for a while. That she had real
i genius began to appear when she under
took parts at the Odeon, In 1S67, and the
I Theater Francals recalled her In 1872. She
achieved some triumphs and became a
.regular member of the company, enlarging
i her repertoire steadily.
First Visit to America.
Her first London appearance was In 18 Ti,
and she won her way brilliantly among the
British lovers of the drama. Then her
temperament boiled over and she severed
I her connection with the premier French
1 playhouse. The courts made her pay 820,000
for breach of contract and Bernhardt soon
after undertook her first trip to the United
I States, gathering In the amount of the
line and some street car fare besides. She
waa received with acclaim, and became
: enthusiastic over the American people.
j Russia and other EuropeNa countries then
had opportunity to see her In various roles,
and In 1882 she committed matrimony, the
: chosen mate being Jacuues Damala. a
I Greek. lie held her attention only until
the next year, when they separated.
Pkotoaraphed by The Bee.
Km Bernhardt soon after this acquired
a theater of her own and produced suo
Icessfully several plays, among them being
I'X'Aiglon." her role for Omaha. In 1W0
i Bernhardt became associated with Con
stant Coquelin, the leading comedian of
1 France, and he was with her when she
appeared In Omaha In 1901. At that period
' of her career the great artiste was cher
ishing a hatred ot the camera, but The
Bee was able to present an excellent pic
ture of herself and Coquelin at dinner In
I their private car. The taking of this plc
; ture was the result of an earlier success
ful attempt to photograph her when she
was driving away from the depot, and
. when she Imagined she bad defeated the
aim of the photographer. Proofs of the
first picture were shown Mine. Bernhardt
and she was pleased to express her de
, aelight. "You make se cheeks so full; I
like It." she said, and then consented to
let the second picture be taken.
Bernhardt was 67 at that time, and per
haps had a very natural fear the camera
might make her appear as growing old;
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yet here she Is back, at 67, lively and am
bitious, and reported to be acquitting her
self with at leant considerable of her old
magnificence still attaching. On the oc
casion of her visit to Omaha In 1W1 The
Bee wrote of her:
"The gracious Sara is surrounded by an
army of servants so solicitous of thrjr
mistress' welfare that they have led the
world to believe she Is a woman whom
years of hard work have developed Into
a termagant. More youthful in appear
ance and actions than many women less
than half her age. It Is Impossible to ex
plain why Bernhardt avoids the photogra
pher, unless it be the realization that
other women who are approaching three
score years will be grieved at seeing how
succersful a sister has been In warding
off all traces of old age and In renewing
her youth ah. the years go by."
Easy to Understand.
For the benefit of those who have never
seen Bernhardt on the stage It may be well
to, recall some of the comment on her ap
pearance here in "La Tosca." The Bee
said In Its headlines, "Words not a neces
sity. The universal tongue of art proves
to -be sufficient Interpretation." It wrs
also noted .that society people were con
spicuous by their absence, the audience
being mode up mainly of "people who
love art for art's sake, and who were at
tracted by the artlstlo merlu of the stars
and the performance rather than by more
ourioslty." The play was given, as are all
of Bernhardt's production, "with a fidelity
to artlstlo verities that .most effectually
supplies to' the Imagination what the un
derstanding may lack of knowledge of the
spoken lines. It Is this attention to the
minutest purts of the production and the
Infinitude of detail In expression that have
gained for Mme. Bernhardt the title of
divine."
On the occasion of Bernhardt's appear
ance at the Auditorium February 27, 1904,
she enacted the role of Marguerite Gau
thler. The place was unsulted for such a
performance, but the demand for scats
had been to great that the managers of
the event decided no theater would serve.
Next day The Bee said:
"The audience was cosmopolitan In a
arge degree that is, it was gathered
from five states and many cities. People
came from as far away In Nebraska as
McCook. Yankton apd Sioux Falls were
represented. Sioux City and Pes Moines
marked the Iowa limits. Missouri was
represented by delegations from Rock-
port and towns between here and there,
while some Kansans could not wait for
the performance to be given at Kansas
City and came to Omaha. Lincoln sent
up about 200 of Its elite."
Of the performance Itself and the cen
tral figure The Bee critic wrote:
"One has difficulty In reconciling the In
exorable fact of her birth In 144 with the
appearance of Mme. Bernhardt In the
character of a girl In her twenties. She
has the grace, the suppleness, the ring
ing laughter, the merry voice and the
sensuous, seductive way of the woman
who is Just beginning to taste the joys of
living, rather than the look of one who has
told three score years of active, soul-testing
life,"
Critle a Prophet.
Something of prophecy attaches to the
comment of the ciitlo at that time, when
he said:
"Sarah Bernhardt Is being advertised as
on her farewell tour. That seems like a
press agent's trick, for naught apparent to
the eye suggests aught than that she will
yet again visit the country that not only
showers her with the wannest of praises
for her work as an artist, but which also
rewards with those golden tokens of ap
preciation so essentially necessary to true
art. Bernhardt will come back, for she
Is greater than Paris or New York, or
any one city In the world. IShe is a true
world-artist, and needs the world as much
as the world needs her."
And back she has come, with her power
but little Impaired, according to the preaa,
enjoying life and giving Joy by her great
endowments and through her perfected
art.
As an example of the activity of Mme,
Bernhardt, her route for the week will
serve excellently. She plays In Denver to
day, presenting "Madam X" at the mat
inee and "L'Aiglon" at the evening per
formance; on Monday at Colorado
Seringa, Tuesday at Pueblo, Wednesday at
Wichita, Thursday at Joplln, Friday and
Saturday at Kanua City and Sunday at
Oniara. This Is a round of travel and toll
that wculd daunt a woman of half her
age, but Bernhardt la Bernhardt, and she
halls at no notion of fatigue.
Peers A boat Toar.
George II. Murray, who Is making the
adance arrangements for her tour, was
In Omaha during the week and furnished
some very interesting facts concerning the
prtaent tour of the United tttatea. Mr.
Murray said:
At (7 she discounts the vitality, nervous
energy and strength of any woman of 80,
as the present tour, which began In Chicago
on Octber 11. will attest She gave thir
teen performancea the first week and four
teen the second, with changes ot play at
each performance, and this fallowing a
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Journey of 4,300 miles from Paris, France,
to Chicago, via New York direct. For this
Visit She filmnlv denleted her thatr a.n1
storehouse In Paris, which was equivalent
to eighteen baggage cars and which I
passed at the port of Chicago and gave the
government a bond of 130,000 that every
thing would be returned to France at the
conclusion of the tour.
"Her entire company has been brought
also her own phyBlclan, personal manager,
secretary, English tutor and an array of
maids and men servants, to nn v nnthlnir
Of her DetS. of Which Pater Pan n Rln.
neim spaniel, is the favorite. Madame's
season calls for 300 performances in the
United States and Canada and with a
guarantee that In no event she receive less
than 81,300 for each performance for her
self, alone, all other expenses being de
frayed by her American manager, W. F.
Connor, who brought her here five years
ago. He pays every exDenae from th.
moment she left Paris until she returns,
and the most wonderful thing of all where
hundreds of thousands of dollar t m.
cerned, there Is no written contract between
them, but simply a verbal undertaking. A
parallel case Is unknown. She Is now on
the twenty-ninth week of the tour in
has played all the principal cities, save St.
raui, Minneapolis, Milwaukee. Denver and
Kansas City, from one nurht in each un tn
five weeks In New York.
'She has produced twentv nlava ami ,
been kept going niarht and Aa.v ?7r
age business has been 83.780 a performance.
Boston leads In the matter of receipts,
where the gross ran aa high as 853,000 In
the week at the Boston theater for ten per
formances. New York paid $209,000 for five
weeks; Chicago, 858,000 for two weeks,
while Philadelphia , Washington. Balti
more, Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Cleveland. De
troit, St. Louis, New Orleans, Los Angeles
and San Francisco were simply capacity.
Seme of these -cities during the tour of
five years ago, were Kansas City, one night.
110.000; Omaha, one night. $7,300. The Sta
dium. University California, $8,300. The
wonderful tent was used In Dallas to
$12,000, and again on the Lake Front. Chi
cago, when she gave a benefit to the San
Francisco fire sufferers, which netted
$17,000. Only this season, In Newark, N. J.,
she contributed. $1,800 to the fumlllMi nf tv..
factory girls who lost their lives in that
terrible lire.
Plays Again in East.
"Mme. Bernhardt Is now on hr
east, where she intends to repeat In New
York, Chicago, Boston. Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore. At Coronado
she celebrated the 200th performance by
giving her company a magnificent dinner.
Ban Francisco was all agog to pay her
nomage ana to snow their deep apprecia
tion of her generosity five vnnri a
she contributed so lavishly to the suf
ferers.
"Bernhardt has many roles, "Camllle,"
"La Tosca," "Madame X," and "Sister
Beatrice" being great favorites Of n.
she admires Rostand the most. Of authors.
bardou. the is not only an actress, but a
painter, sculptor, dramatist, author and
llterateur, and has refused the Legion of
Honor unless presented on certain grounds.
Even 7,000 miles from home, she finds time
to direct her theater In Paris, also her
estates en the Island of Belle, off the
French coast; follows the French styles
and keeps In touch all over the world. A
woman who has played in every country
en the globe and always in her own tongue,
and who has met more of the world's dis
tinguished men anit women. Including
sovereigns, than any woman In the world,
and new. In the autumn of her career, she
brines the art of a lifetime i vn
doors to fire hearts and eouie with tha
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maclo art as only a Bernhardt can.
"There, you have a lot of facts that have
never appeared In print, and, oh, by-the-way.
something else, she has three Irish
men to guide her Mr. W. F. Connor, who
brings her to America and assumes every
risk; Mr. E. J. Sullivan, who travels with
her, and your humble servant, myself."
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