The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-05-17
By Beau Rialto.
written for the United Press.)

(WflJLen IOr the United ProSS)
NEW YORK, May l7.-Mme. Sarah
Bernhardt, just as divine as of old and
younger than ever, with her ten serv-
ants, 20 trunks, SO pieces of hand lug
gage, and nobody knows how many
American dollars will next week close
her vaudeville season in. this countr,
and will sail away to that dear Paris.
To what? Why, to plan another tour
of the states, of course
FAREWELL She echoed the cues
ton with ripple that was anything
but stage laughter. "Is this fare
we'll tour? Certainly not. l do not
understand this farewell business in
America. Some people are always ma
king farewell tours, but not I. I shall
never say farewell. | won't have time.
| shall keep going on and on until my
time is up, and then my curtain will
ring down SO suddenly | will have no
time for farewell"
She was so convulsed with laughter
for moment that she could not speak.
Then she explained: "Out in one west
ern town they had my act billed as an
extra farewell That was too much.
Perhaps the greatest actress of hel
time, Nine. Bernhard, always an icon
oclast, has twice flown in the face of
the providence of the drama, and de-
fed the ethics of the legitimate drama.
She not only went into vaudeville.
which was taboo when she took the
plunge, but she posed for the movies
She let them take motion pictures Of
several of her most familiar roles. and
she did it long before any other of the
big stars dared such thing.
When Wilton Lackaye did his Sven
gall for the cinamatograph, Broadway
erupted like Mont Pelee, and there was
a frightful uproar in the Lambs and
Friars. But the great Bernhardt had
done the same thing long before that.
Today moving picture work and vaude-
willie is INDUCED in by the very best
people" of stageland. But Bernhard !
was the pioneer and the size of the |
sack in which she moved the swag to |
France testified that she could defy all |
the ethics ever promulgated and "get |
away with it,"
incidentally, while she was here,
Nine. Bernhard declared herself for
woman's suffrage, cubism, postum
pressionism, universal peace, eugenics |
and everything under the sun that is !,
being talked about at the moment in
the United States. The divine Sarah
is always booster and was never
heard to KNOCK" anything except
American cooking-and farewell tours.
Every successful play tells an in
teresting story, but the converse is not
true. Every successful story cannot
be turned into an interesting play.
the Passing of the Idle Rich
which was passed out to the public at
the Garden theatre recently Its pass
ing was SO sudden that Broadway rub
bed it's eyes and wondered if it has
really seen play or only ghost. ,
The Passing Of the Idle Rich" died a. ,
oornin' so to speak, and CLOSED in
)ne" might. The play was made out 4
If the book of similar title written by
frederick Townsend Martin, and it
vas q successful book, too. If there
s any one Of the older New Workers
ully equipped to tell about the doings
If the idle rich Freddy" Martin is the
nan. He knows them here and abroad,
n London, Paris and Vienna He is
N interesting raconteur, and he told !
# the idle rich and the causes that
would eventually contribute to their
PASSING, in an interesting manner.
Jobody could doubt that the book was