New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-02
BERNHARDT, IN HASTE,
STOPS FOR CHOCOLATE
Actress Saves BeIidor and $500
Duty from "Cruel Gus
- toms Men,"
OPPOSES VOTES FOR WOMEN
Madame Arrives a Day Late and
Hastens to Chicago to Start
Vaudeville Tour at $4,000
a Week Guarantee.

Nine. Sarah Bernhard arrived I'm this
city from Hayre before dawn on La Savoie
yesterday. and before sunset she was be-
,ond Albany speeding west TO Chicago,
where she will appear this afternoon in
Fl. first performance of twenty-week
,our that will take her to the Pacific
Coast
lifetime on the stage has made Nine.
psrnhardt a daughter of the night She
was not particularly pleased to be aroused
al s a. m yesterday, advised to make
,eady for shore and forego her customary
,up OF chocolate taken regularly with her
first meal at midday.
Visitors boarded the Savoie at Quaran-
tine TO see Nine. Bernhard. They in
cIpded Martin Beck, her American man
i aser. and several reporters. but the ac-
,ress had not yet risen.
Presently a woman about the size OF
Nine. Bernhardt dressed in furs. emerged
hurriedly from madames rooms and
sought the deck. The reporters followed
her.
"Is not that madame?" one OF them
asked the assistant surgeon. "No. eet ees
not he replied calmly. 81 have Nine
Bernhardt seen many times on the deck
this week This ees the first time ever
this woman I have seen with her clothes
on"
BY the time he had finished explaining
that what he meant to say was that the
I'll, ho
voyage and he had treated her as she lay
m in bed Nine Bernhardt was ready 10
receive her visitors
In better English than she has ever
used Madame exclaimed: "Ah, What
can say? What do you want me to say?
myself want to say that l love to be
back Say l am delighted TO be back and
that this is not my farewell tour. You
can say ! will not play Elizabeth this
time. II was not a success. 1t does not
please me, Sc why should ! play it?"
Nine Bernhard expressed herself as
opposed to woman suffrage. BY tempera-
ment she explained they were not adapted
for the ballot or public Office. She called
attention to the fact that the suffragettes
started in England with parades and
ended with violent demonstrations, and
observed that 1t would be we'll il the
cause in this country was limited to pa
rsdes
when the whistle of La Savoie blew, an
nouncing the gangplank was made fast,
Captain Tourrette went to Madame's
room. bowed low and offered her his arm.
With rapid strides the couple marched
10 the gangway. Ahead OF them rushed
the boatswain and his two mates, blowing
loudly upon silver pipes. and the crew
from engine room to bridge assembled and
stood at attention.
Crew Cheers MADAME"
"Nive Ia Madame shouted the forward
division Of the crew. 'Nive la Bern
hardtw responded the division astern.
Twice the shouts were repeated. Then a
mad rush was made for the Bernhard
baggage. This included her forty-five per-
sonal trunks and sixty containing stage
costumes.
All went we'll until Belidor started trout
bic with the customs officials. They had
heard him snarling and decided he was
worth a duty of 500. Miss Hornsby the
English travelling companion OF Madame.
talked rapidly TO the actress in French,
and Madame stamped her foot. Indeed,
not cent Of duty would she pay on Bell
dor, nor would she surrender him 10 the
American officials. At last, when Miss
Hcrnsby explained that Belidor was born
in this country and was a gift from
American friends, he passed muster, and
Madame was again happy
This over, she was whisked 10 the
Hotel Marie Antoinette. where she rested
for two hours and slipped chocolate with
a light breakfast. From the hotel she
was hurried to the Grand Central Station.
Nine. Bernhardts tour will include
Milwaukee. Minneapolis. Winnipeg, Ed
monton. Calgary. Victoria. Seattle, Port
land, Tacoma, San Francisco and Los
Angeles. Her performances will include
the third act of 'Lucrezia Borgia," fifth
act Of Camille" second act Of "Phedre."
fourth act OF "Tosca' and one-act play
by her son Maurice called "Une Mutt de
Noel" The tragedienne b sixty-nine
years old. For the tour she has guar
antee Of IS 900 a week for two forty-min-
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