New-York tribune., 1910-12-18
Bemhardt
To Women:
Work! Work!
HER ENERGY TlRELESS.
Attributes to That and Refusal
TO Worry Her Youthful
ness at SiXty-sevcn.

Bernhardt-she has long since attained
the enviabIe privilege Of standing merely
urder her surname-has been taken FOR
7 granted for so many years as the su-
! preme actress. almost as the symbol OF
art on the stage. that perhaps it hardly
occurs 10 us any more to figure out
| how she won her place at the top, nor,
having won it, how she now maintains
II. Until one looks at the matter Gu
riousIv he IS likely to think that gensuD
glIdes along its path to SUCCESS wtthoo1
effort
."The wonder woman" she has bSan
| called, but among the greatest wonders
is the way she has worked and se1D
/ works to gain those victories which 49,
pear to come to her SO easily. Athou80
! Bernhardt's pleasures havo been Wfz2D~
pered around the world until many hAv0
thought she was busy alone with en1aas
| vet IL we look at the way she Is sosn6~
| ing her days now among u We W211
gather a different impression, Tor = -
| typical OF the way ehs has lived D.
whole life.
When she arrived In this ooUus1 -
| this last tour she carne OH tie so60
bringing with her q company Of . nun"
dred persons and several tons of ecenAEys
costumes and stage properties. Tho nss
of properties alone as revealed oy tnS In~
voices covers several pages OF closely
typed matter, and shows that each play
is to be presented without q single ou~
nIicate. even to the smallest Tar OF hoWS
ers or the most Insignificant grass nrA&s
"Of course, 7 did not suppose that TN
snfoven age sets for Jeanne d'Axc
would be made to do service u
Camille" said Mr.. Connor, Nine. Bern
hardt's American manager. but I oi0
think that the same flowers used IN La
Sorciere' might be made to bloom IN
| T,Aiglon,' and the troops in La Tosca'
might. since they are OF the same period
and the same army, be allowed TO wear
the same uniforms they donned in the
| service of the English"
! But Nine. Bernhardt thought other
wise. and thought so with emphasis
| Tho task of bringing over this great
mass Of material for the production OF
twenty PLAYS was all under Nine. Bern
hardt's own directing. Her storage
warehouses in Paris had to be nearly
ennptfed TO furnish all the necessary
| furnishings
| Jrshered into her dressing room be-
tween acts one finds her sitting deep in
! q comfortable chair. with such an air OF
| repose that one who is tired recuPeT-
| ates strength by merely looking at her
! If she has to change her makeup she
does it with the lanEuid grace Of on"
who has a whole morning 10 spend in her
boudoir preparing, for the day Mean
while. she is talking to half a dozen
friends and strangers. betraying>jn her
conversation q keen personal interest IN
them and apparently with no thought OF
herself or of the other acts Of the drama
that she must so through with before the
evening is over.
After the play it takes her two or three
hours to let down from the tension of the
character she has pOrtrayed-to become,
i'm other words, Nine. Eernhardt again.
AS soon as she takes off her makeup and
gets into her street clothes again she
climbs into her automobile, and. accom-
panied by several friends, goes back to-
her hotel Others meet her there, and
all go I'D to her suite for q supper
Nearly every night in this manner sho
holds q sort Of fete. laughing, bandyinE
Wit. and coming back slowly TO her per-
fectly composed and normal self
Il simply have never had time 10 grow
old in the sixty-seven years OF my Hfa'%
exclaimed the sorceress when some ono
remarked upon her vitality las a chfld
was extremely delicate, and every on0
predicted cheerfully that i would die OF
consumption. But to-day am I'm better
health than I have ever enjoyed IN Az
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