New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-19
SARAH COMES TO TOWN
Actress Has Played 285 Times in
25.O00-MiIe Journey.
FEELS WELL. LOOKS YOUNG
Didn't Disappoint An Audience
Anywhere from Florida to
Montreal.

When did Sarah Bernhard ever act an
old woman In the early 70s. in Paris,
msvhe during the brief life Of the play
called Rome Vaincue." Certainly not In
her APARTMENT in the Marie Antoinette yes
terday afternoon.
Yet she would have been pardoned for
arpear.ng in that character Yesterday for
she Is sixtv-seven years old. and has just
completed n long and arduous tour IN THIS
country. I'm the course Of this trip sne I'M
nersonated on the theatrical stage Mar
guerite Gauter. Joan Of Arc and the boy
prince in "LAiglon," as well as many
other Youthful characters. Never on or
off the stage, has she been an old woman.
The more she advances the more she
inclines to young parts and masculine
roles.
Most decidedly IT was not as great
grandmother that the actress impressed
those who saw her yesterday afternoon
she entered the room and sent you nearer
! heaven.
SIZE was all marvellous elegance and
aristocratic charm. She sat with such an
air Of repose that one who might be tired
would recuperate strength merely by look
ing at her
Sarah the great grandmother? Not pres
emit Sarah the siren? Yes 4 sorceress,
clad in a vaporous costume and smiling.
That smile! How spelbound it makes
one, And then YOU gaze into her eyes Ike
bird fascinated by a serpent.
! IT is all very exhilarating Especially
does the actress seem to feel that way
about IT, She is radiant. In a voice Ike A
thrush she saws she has travelled more
than twenty-five thousand miles in thirty
/ five weeks. twice crossing the continent.
and i'm that time has appeared in no less
than 2s5 performances. ninety of which
have been one-niSht stands Also. she did
not cnce disappoint an audience
II still feel myself young" she said ITO
day / am in better health than | have ever
enjoyed in all my life"
Nine Bernhardt came from out of the
West via Weehawken. where she arrived
% saturday night
1t has all been wonderful" she said.
'"rhe last time it was sad. II was goodby.
This time the dear people were surprised.
They looked. They listened The same
beauty" they said. The same voice The
same Sarah"
| OF course this was very gratifying And
TN. money. the gold. II has been following
/ Sarah Bernhard wherever she did go In
| Il. pendent of the returns Of her four per
/ formanCes 10 he given this week az the
! Globe Theatre her gross receipts for the
season are said 10 be about 5000 900. More
! than half Of this amount. n Is said. Will go
! tu the star and her company.
she told how she took sleigh ride in
| Montreal when the thermometer registered
% below and stood In front of pudding
furnaces al midnight m Pittshurg when the
same sort of thermometer was above 100
and still going up.
she hunted alligators in Florida when the
alligatoTs, not knowing she was searching
for them remained away She tried Al f.
JuareZ 10 md some insurrectos but they
| we're not there either
! These disappolntments were forgotten IN
the lightning changes her personality un
derwent when the curtain rose az night, anC
La Tosca' or some other of her twenty I'VE
plays enchanted the audiences as Of old
Nine Bernhardt will sail on Thursday or
tie Lorraine for Paris.