MADAME SARA BERNHARDT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 11

MADAME SARA BERNHARDT.

HER MARVELLOUS VITALITY. Madame Sara Bernhardt since her arrival in London has been givijig a month's performances, twice daily, at the Colosseum (says the English correspondent of an Australian paper). This is a wonderful effort, for though the "divine SqTa's" exact : ago need not'be given, 'all the world knows that she is a great' 'grandmother. Her vitality is marvellous. Parisians call her "Notre Dame d'Energie." Here is an illustration of her. activities - v:hich justifies the title. On 11 Saturday night she was performing at Roubaix, in Prance, commencing at half-past 8, and finishing at midnight. After supper, she retired before 3 a.m., but rose again' at 5 a.m., and motored to Boulogne. On her way she narrowly escaped being run into by. another motor going at top speed. After crossing the .Channel, Madame Bernhardt re-entered her motor-ear, and came to London. For two hours after her arrivalat tho Carlton' Hotel o was giving interviews to journo.' ts and personal friends. When she .. ;v:!e her appearance on the stage at tiw. Colosseum on the Monday afternoon, in the second act, of Rostand's "L'Aiglon" (the son- of Bonaparte and young ICinj. of Rome), she received such an enthusiastic demonstration as one rarely sees in England Some of the audiences have 'numbered ovor 8000 • persons. This shows, as everybody knows, that Sara Bernhardt is a great favourite in England; and she likes England and tho English. The present is her first appearance on a music-hall stage, for which she is'receiving ,£IOOO a week. Sara Bernhardt declares she would not act, in a French music-hall, for they are so very inferior to the English, both in atmosphere,,tone, and programme. She confided to one of her interviewers that she liked English fashions, but there was one fashion she had never been able to' acclimatise in Paris. She had never succeeded in inducing fair Parisians to remove their hats, at matinees, as many ladies do in England. In Australia' tho part of "L'Aiglon" was played by Miss Tit tell Brune, and Australians can form some idea of the difficulty of portraying that part by a wonvaji who, is nearer 70 than 60 years of age. But Sara Borjihardt's figure, in her- boy's dress, was as neat as ever, and her wonderful voice was as -tender and melodious as of old. Her action, too, icas that .of a bright young woman.

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