The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-20
BERNHARDT IN
CAMILLE HERE
GREAT FRENCH ACTRESS TO APP.
PEAR AT CALUMET THEATER
IN GREAT PLAY-AD-
VANCE MAN HERE. =.

George VI. Murray advance man
ager for Madame Bernhardt. arrived
In Calumet today TO make final ar
rangements with MANAGE John ID.
ICuddihy of the Calumet thcater for
the appearance here on May 30 Of the
great French actress. II has been
decided that Bern!lrdt viii present
Camille" that production apparent
ly being the choice OF the Calumet
theater- goers.
Camille by the younger Alcxan-
Ore Dumas is the play which won
for Dumas recognition among the
writer's of eminence, and il WAS the
play in which Madame Bernhardt
made her first success. She is SUI
premc I'm the role
Madame Bernhard is now max
ing her seventh and last visit To telis
country" said Mr.. Murray to
The News today. land that the
present tour will be the last goes
without saying. She Is now ~ and
to return again, five years would have
to elapse before another generation
of theater-gocrs would have been
born. That would make her. II she
lived, ~, so that's not likely.
Madame is really making her last
visits. Today, at 81, she Is the most
remarkable woman God ever made.
She discounts the vitality nervous
energy and strength of any woman
of 80, as the present tour, which be-
gan in Chicago on oct. 81, will at
test, when she gave thirteen perform
ances the first week and fourteen the
second with changes of play at each
performance, and this following a
journey of 1900 miles from Paris.
France to Chicago via New York di-
rect For this. her last visit, she sim
| ply depleted her theater and store
house i'm Paris, which was equivalent
to eighteen baggage cars and which
[ passed at the port of Chicago and
gave the government a bond of 500,
600 that everything would be return
ed To France at the conclusion Of the
tour"
"IIer entire company has been
brought, also her own physician, per
sonal manager, secretary, English tu-
| tor and an array of maids and mer
servants. to say nothing of her pets
of which Peter Pan, Blcnheim span.
icl, is the favorite. Madame's season
calls for 300 performances in tn,
| United States and Canada and Will
a guarantee that ian no event shall sh,
receive less than 1900 for cach per-
| Torrance for herself alone, all Other
| expenses being betrayed by her Am.
erican manager. w. j.. Conner, VIII,
pays every expense from the momcn
she left Paris until she returns, and
tho most wonderful thing of all wher,
| hundreds of thousands of dollars ar,
| concerned there Is no written con.
tract between them, but simply q
! Pom Honnor' verbal understanding
A parallel case is unknown She Is
now on the thirty-frst week Of the
tour and has played all the principal
cities, save st. Paul, Minneapolis
| Milwaukee. Denver and Kansas City
|
from one night i'm each up to fiv,
weeks i'm New York"
Sho has produced twenty plays
and been kept going day and night
Her average business has been $3.50
a performance.
Boston leads i'm the matter of re.
ceipts where the gross ran "a high as
$4,000 i'm one week at the Bostor
theater for ten performances. New
York paid 100000 for five weeks;
Chicago. $4,000 for two weeks: Will,
Philadelphia, Washington. Baltimore
| Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Cleveland. De.
trolt st. Louis. New Orleans. Los
| Angeles and San Francisco were sim
ply capacity. Some of these cities
| during the tour of five years ago
were Kansas City one night 10000
Omaha. one night. $1,000. The sta.