The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21
BERNHARDT STILL YOUNG

Alan Dale in the New York American.
 ~ RUSSELS--Sarah is here. O, Sa- NN rah is very here. Don't believe " any stories you hear about Sa- rah,s lame knee or any other incum- brance. Believe nothing but that she Is skittisher than ever, that she IS giVihs an unparalleled exhibition of rushing ln- dustry here in Brussels, at the colossal Theatre de la Monnaie, and that at an age when most ladies would be tatting by the steam heat she is producing new plays with gigantic star roles ana trip- ping all over the continent.
 Sarah is playing two or three gentlemen and several ladies this week. The nov city in which I saw her at the Sunday matinee was nothing less than the good old fairy story, "The Sleeping Beauty called in French La Belle au Bois Dor mand," and done into an apparently poetic legend by Jean Richepin and Henri Cain, with music of a classical caliber py Francois Thome. All those names Sarah masses together and brings to Brussels with tons of scenery, and what they call fin the dramatic papers "a $3O,Op produc- tion'-big discount for cash payment, 1T you please
 Sarah appeared in "The Sleeping Beauty at the Poet Landry, spry youth of some 20 summers, who is Tn love with love- and later with the Reautifui Princess. who is cursed by the Uninvited Fairy and sentenced to sleep hundred
 c old She on in a very boyish garb, looking like smiling Hamlet, and. honestly. Sarah herself must have unearthed some WIZ ard Ten years ago she looked older than she does now. I opera-glassed, l cruelty analysed. I studied this Poet Landry and not day over 35 did Sarah look Her face was bland and smooth. her eye both her eyes-clear and limpid, and she was as kittenish as Maude Adams
 To see her spring to the arm Of her chair and sit in most juvenile position with her thin, calfiess, betighted legs neatly crossed was wonder in itseil And as she grew animated and fired some very high falutin but extremely te- dious Richepin verses over the foot lights, the delusion of youth was writ there in aureate letters. After the Sleep ing Beauty had taken her hundred-year nap, Sarah, reincarnated as the Prince Landry-so that she can still be young and saucy-wakes her up with kiss, and the play ends. am bound to say that that if it had lasted much longer Sarah would have had to wake us all up with kiss. A. the end of the eleventh tableau nothing but a hot, whooping KISS would have woke me up.
 For 1t was all very long drawn out and very lingering Richepin is poet but an awful bore. In all, there were 12 tab1eaux to "The Sleeping Beauty" and intermissions of considerable length between nearly all of 'em. When Sarah herself was on the stage all went well. She had little to do but advertise the much advertised golden voice" in dec lamation of verse; It was classical fairy story set to classical music. It had beau tiful settings that in London or New York would have been used for vulgar extravaganza (alias the leg show') with dreadful popular tunes and rag time ditties. In fact, it resembled New York '1eg show" served up with grand opera fixings.
 However, let me hasten to say that in the matter of leg, Sarah. Sarah, with star-like grandeur. usurped all the honors. All the pretty girls. and there were many (particularly a sweet little lady named Andree Pascal. who played the Princess). wore very long dresses. Not leg was heard. except Sarah's own pensive team.