BERNHARDT RELICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 805, 7 September 1923, Page 6

BERNHARDT RELICS.

SALE OF FAMOUS EFFECTS

Rarely have so many theatrical celebrities been crowded into one room as in the Galerie Petit, Paris, when the sale of Sarah Berhhardt's effects was held recently. There were actors and actresses and many agents representing anonymous buyers in England, 'France and America, and before the sale began over 20,000 people viewed the exhibits. Some of the women knelt before the deathbed of the Divine Sarah and placed bunches of blossoms upon it. They begged that the bed should be withdrawn from sale, and this wish was granted . - ■ .„-.,.. Mary Marquet, the beautiful Comedie Francaise star, bought two-thirds of the objects offered at a cost _of over £7,000. She secured Mme. Bernhardt's belt 9, cameos, girdles and rare porcelain. ... ... Florence Walton bought the earrings worn in "Camille."

Sacha Guitry (now playing in London) paid the highest price for a single object—a belt worn in "THeodor"—at a cost of 3,600 francs (about £SO). "The West Coast, with its deep green foliage, i 3 the most difficult part of the Dominion to photograph," Was a statement made at a meeting of Be Groymouth Chamber of Commerce, during a discussion in oonncotion with tho proposed filming of West Coast scenory.