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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

i It is said that Mr W. F. Hawtrey has cancelled his Brisbane dates. ■ 1 The fertility of M. Sardou is becoming ■ phenomenal. With a record of plays ■ eclipsing that of any man of his time, ■ his seventy-second birthday finds him ’ engaged on no fewer than three big proi ductions. Of these one, of course,, is ’ "Haute;” another "Sorciere, for lime, i Sarah Bernhardt; while the third is for • the Paris Vaudeville. Prior to "Sorci- • ere,” Mine. Bernhardt will produce Ea--1 cine's "Andreniaque,” and Hervieu's "Theraigne de Mericoult.” Her appear- . &uce in '‘Macbeth” will come later in ; the season. In addition to the forego- • ing. Mme. Bernhardt hopes to produce i a dramatisation of Sicnkiewicz's power- , ful novel "Fire and Sword,” shortly. ’ The Polish novelist is also at work on a » drama dealing with the freeing of Vieni na from the Turks in 1683, and entitled, i "On the Pinnacle of Fame.” Arrangei ments are being made for its simultaue- ; ous production in London, New York, [j Vienna and Paris. i ,