Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-18
BERNHARDT's VARIED TOUR.
The Tent? the Rink? Where Has
 She Not Played?

Mime Bernhardt is younger than when she last saw New York. She is younger at her own count by many years.
 Tt is the experience that makes to fly away the wrinkles" says Mime Bernhardt. Each new experience Is day taken from the years In this tour of farewell I have lost many years" And she calls to witness her excur- sion through the west. Playing in a tent is an experience. Treading stage tilted out of plumb by an earthquake-but yes, that is an ad venture. Having her likeness snapped/by a camera man with the toppling walls of ruined city for background-ah, that is to remem- Der.
 Then your farewell tour is, after all, the tour of all tours." said the man with the muck-raked French. But yes." which is the French for sure thing" What have I not done in your great country this time ? Tn what place besides the stable of horses have I not presented my repre- toire The grand tent 1t suffices in Texas. The rink for playing on the rollers fjouant sur les castors) 1t is the place in California. Even the dancing hall of the country makes of itself the palace of L'Aiglon by ue- cessity."
 He of the frazzled French ventured a remark after carefully selecting the wrong tense. The west then, 1t is more appreciative of the drama than the east ?"
 "Ah, should I say I am now in the east, and this is my farewell. Must then make the faux pas at the twelfth hour ? They appreciate great | ly my plays in the great west, even though nobody in the town but the French waiter understands me-" Maybe the east likes Pawnee Bills wild west better" was the next suggestion"
 "Ah. Monsieur Bill of Pawnee- that Is the performance, very jolly, of the hairy west.
 We say woolly west. but 1t amounts to the same thing" Quite so," sweetly resumed the { Bernhardt with a wave of the hand. But perhaps Monsieur the Pawuee Bill has of a performance for more appealing, far more artistic than does Mime Bernhardt. Is 1t not ? There | is the grand noise, the shots, of the Indians. the grand smoke and dust. All that appeals"
 The interviewer frantically con- | jugated the verb "to want" then chose at random. "ls it only smoke and shots that the people want :" He evidently hit future tense, for the | tragedienne came back:
 Not that they will want the grand smoke and shots. but that they want it now. Big shots of emotion and smoke of sentiment. Camille is the I favorite in this country. Camille, full of the boom. boom. pouf of pas sion. Camille is my Monsieur Bill of Pavnee."
 The actress was asked to name her most pleasurable experience In all the farewell tour.
 "Ah. that was at Berkeley. the col lege town across the bay from San Francisco. There in the great Greek theater I played 'Phedre' as it has never been played before. under the blue skies and in a classical theater of Greek design"
 Rernhardt closed her eyes in rem | iniscence.
 And there sat before me there the thousands of folk who had been made homeless. miserable by the terribls earthquzke and fire And they for got Yes. I believe they forgot all
 50 this ends my tour" concluded Nine Bernhzrdt. with definite sveeI of her expressive hands "I go bscl to my dear Frsnce-to return never With me I carry the images of tents pzvflions. theaters, all the plac<a where your dear people have conn to zee me
 -ft is q sweet memory. and 1 au e1ad- d---Eeu York San