New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-22
B[RNHARDT WON'T SIT
ON SUFFRAGE THRONE
Divine Sarah Goes to Pay a
Visit, but Refuses the Dis
tinCtiOn Prepared for Her.
TRES JOLIE,' SAYS MADAME
More than Five Hundred Mem
hers of Women's Organization,
and Some Others, Welcome
the Great Actress.

Al mon dieU. such a day.
To see Bernhardt-the divine Sarah-ah
4, is 10 thrill IN ones heart
Almost a thousand suffragsts waited
,bree hours at the Woman Suffrage party
,..douarters IN East Sith street yester-
sov afternoon 20 see the great Bern
s.-dt Then the time arrived. Sarah
,,ood by the yellow drsped table and
-..eived their adulatons. They beamed,
..,, bowed. they kissed her hand. they
.D.t,sred their French upon her de-
,,nceless but ever gracious ears, they
cared they stumbled over each other
ewing 10 look backward as they went
-, NJ tho throne room. II was one Won
derfu day.
7, was o'clock when the cry burst
tom, q hundred lips: Here she comes.
re-. M, Of the way, Quick, The two
,xtra policemen at the gate pushed back
-. crowd and Bernhardt emerged radl-
an, ron her automobile
leaning on her secretary's arm. bowling
-rbt and left. smiling. stopping twice
% greet an old friend" who had forced
.s-seif into the front row Of the crowd.
enc rassed into the suffrage house and
,bs doors were snapped shut IN the face
Of the multitude.
They led her 10 the throne, but she re-
fused 10 sit upon IL.
Tres iole." she pronounced IT, now
eyer which delighted the committee be-
vord measure. Not in vain had the!
draped that chair with yellow flags
cleared of their desks and covered them
with yellow crepe paper and hlled the
whole bow window with flowers until II
Looked ike a bridal bower. Bernhard
referred to stand.
Sarah looked remarkably fresh ana
pleased. She was the despair OF the com
mit,ee who kept telling every body
Don't shake hands" FOR half the time
she herself made the advances.
Tres charmant." she murmured sra-
cious!y. as. one after another. they SIAM
mered how glad they were, how they
adozed her. how they had never forgot
ten when they first aw-her act.
You speak French. and then / Will.
she laughed with one whose eyes We're
especially appealing.
Welcoming Speech in French.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan. with a care
fully prepared speech in French and a
bunch Of yellow roses. stepped forward
and greeted madame most ceremonl-
ously. II was not TO be serious. An
non madame kepr interrupting ire
prsssibly
'Mas. cest charmant."
An. tres jolie."
She did her best % keep the affair on
conversational basis. but Mrs. Nathan
got through il somehow.
Then there was Young French stu
dent. Miss Adelaide Hahn. who walked
away with all the prizes from the Ali
snce FRANCHISE last year. She had per
mission Of Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chief
Of police Of the occasion. TO say poem
Al Nine Bernhard.
Please spell II right she urged tho
reporters because ] wouldn't want my
teachers 20 think ] wrote bad French.
For cuors. then, blame the printer
"Je Grains extremement de vous parler'
madame. she began. and
"Oui oui, certainement, replid Bern
hardt Then she realized IL was poetry
and smiled
The little girl continued:
"Parlait il faut faire ce que dicte mon
Et main,enant que jai le bonheur de vous
sCis.
Grand bonheur que je puts peine croie
fsu' sous dire qu'une jeune Ameri-
csint
Damiration. elaboration est toute pleine
!s vous al vue au theatre deja SIX fols
Il Que vous etes I'm ange Vraiment Je
crOis
ye sus tcrriblement sudacieuse. Madame.
famine
Dire ou'ele a mon cceur que toujours ellie
aura
Lac,rice immortelle la divi3a Sarah
When the poem was ended Miss Hahn
cropped a rapturous kiss on Bernhardt
hand. and stayed around, privileged
Character. Tor the rest OF the ceremony
The common folks were admitted in
lunches Of I'VE or six. permitted 10 gaze
upon Bernhardt. 10 drop dancing school
courtesy. Or n plain bow. then Miss Hay
OF Mrs James Lees Laidlaw, or Miss
Flora Gapeu or Mrs. Luella Geer ordered
them 20 "move on. please" More than
20 sufraglsts were crowded into the up
stairs rooms