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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 7

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MADAME BERNHARDT Will TOl)R tflE ANTIPODES • ' .- j •A.Vi l >• '' •' CAUCHT BY MARCONICRAM.' nv XEiiEanAi'n—rßEss'A^soorATioN—copmioM.'-' London,. January;:;2l.ij''.: vMr. J. C. Williamson, tbo well-known Australian theatrical manager, has olosed a contract with Sarah Bernhardt, tho great I'Vonch actress, for an Australasian, tour of a hundred performancesi of 1909. Madamo Bernhardt .i3 r .tQ ,t;cceive, r 500,000 trancs. Tho contract Mr. Williamson - %vas ; in tbo big Cunard linor' Lusitania, and' was j closed by medium of a Marconigram. • BERNHARDT'S CAREER." """ Tlio,"lncomparabl i (!. i^arah'':J ia in her sixty-1 fourth She.was bornrm Tans, and was | educate<l in tho Convent ,do..Grandchamps, i Versailles. When eightfcoit'-yca'rp'tof affeisno] mado hoi debut at the Comedio EToncaioe'ns.l "Iplngenie," when'she scored'an, ous success. After playing in various. Parisian theatres, she returned to the Comedie In 1872, and, on leaving there ajain- in 1880 tg visit Anionca, was fined X4OOO. Sho mnde'Ticr'first appenrance in Londqn .V'.ithithe .Comedie Francaioe in 187!). Later, she became director of the Porte St. Martin, and.,.»v 189.1.ah« built .the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt. She" is 'a distinguished sculptor, as well as*, nn.actress of wonderful magnetism, and has written a book entitled " Dans,, lea Niißgos,?'' ia, drama called. nnd kcr own "Ilc^collcct^on3- Sho married 11. Mamala-'in"lßß3::!":'llernj)rra.voi'com*' plete with tombstone, Was erected .at hor direction many years ago. -ili one* of'the-'Parisian theatres. Jfadame's greatest histnonic sue.wore such plays as •■", Fedora," " Theodora;" "La Tosca,, and quito recently *5La Sorcicre";ri :-.