£1000 A WEEK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 29 October 1912, Page 8

£1000 A WEEK.

MME. BERNHARDT'S FEE AT THE

COLISEUM

LONDON, Sept. 26. 1 love your London. It is a magnificent city. 1 pray you to thank the readers of thu ".Express" for the

kindly welcome which all have given

me on my return visit

This is the message which Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, who arrived in London last night from Paris, gave to an "Express" representative who met her.

Mine. Bernhardt, who is as youthful as ever, is to appear at the- Coliseum for a six weeks' season. It is stated that the sum paid to her is £1000 a week for this soason, and that she has been offered even more to appear in America.

Sho had a civic reception at Folkestone, the first any actress has ever had, the Mayors of Folkestone and Grayesend welcoming her, and then she travelled up by motor oar to the Carlton Hotel, where, wjth her thirtythree trunks of new clothes and her suite and secretaries,, she was last night " resting." Sho was not, however, too tired to iceeivo many friends. "I r>m playing first my part as JLmcvtio.Q Borgia," she explained, "in which London has not seen me before. I have several olhei roles, favourites of mine, whi'.-h i hope will please new and o'd v-ieuls. " You ask me: ' How do I keep young P' " cried Mme. Bernhardt with a dramatic wave of a small hand. " Well, it is enthusiasm, 1 suppose, and ■a joy of life which keeps me just,as youno; as I 'feel." Before her departure for England, Mme. Bernhardt sent the following lettor to the hon. secretaries of the national tribute to her, to be presented on her next birthday, which will be spent in London. She wrote: "I learn with the most sincere gratification that you and your friends are movers in the most flattering and charming demonstration which is preparing for me in London. "1 cannot wait until I arrive in London to thank you for your kind and beautiful thought. I hasten to offer to ,on and all my British friends my felicitations and gratitude."