ELISABETH BERGNER

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 225, 19 June 1936, Page 16

ELISABETH BERGNER

JT is announced that Elisabeth Bergner, who has been seriously ill in London, will not return to the stage until the (English) autumn at the earliest, the result being the poslpone-

meat of her new play, Barrie’s “The Boy David.” She is lucky to be alive at all. A perforated appendix almost robbed Ihe theatre of her genius. After appearing in only one play in Britain. “Escape Me Never,” she has drawn to her a group of people

to whom she is more than just an actress. These l are the people with whom she has worked. Foremost among them is Mr. 1!. Cochran. “All of us who have met her love her,” he said. "To meet ami talk to her is Io fall under Ihe spell of her personality. 1 know no other actress so completely absorbed in her profession. Her day is a nerve-racking preliminary Io lite performance in the evening. All of us who love her know tlu> mental agony through which she must be passing. She loves ‘The Boy David,’ which Barrie Ims created for her.

“But. her biller disappoint meat al Its inevitable postponetneiil Is not merely on Hull account. She Is thinking of the whole production, the company and the workers." Until tills Illness she Ims always been delicate. I’lml was probably I lie appendix, but her doclors believe she will be stronger limn ever before from now on.

LUMIEKE, inventor of the cinematograph film, hardly ever sees a moving picture. He is too busy in the daytime, and his health will not, allow him to go out at night, He is now working on apparatus which shows perspective.