The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-09
BERNHARDT UNABLE
TO ENGAGE ACTORS
French Players Too Patriotic
to Leave Their Country
at This Time.
GOSSIP OF STAGE FOLK

aver and intimate friend, william Con-
nor, Sarah Bernhardt said she re-
GREETED bitterly the necessity for a post
| ponement OF the opening OF her gag
| ment at the New Amsterdam Theatre
next week, but hoped that she would
soon be able to start for America. Three
Of the actors under engagement to come
| here with the actress have been Killed
in action. Others are unwilling to leave
| their country at this time and have
| withdrawn from their contracts or have
refused to accept any engagement whlch
| will take them too far from France 10
be at their country's call when needed.
| Then there is a prohibition against thsir
leaving France at this m
But Nine. Bernhardt has appealed 10
the Ministry of War for aid In getting
| together enough players to come over
here. Her latest cablegram to Mr.. Con-
nor expressed confidence that II would
not be long before she could start 10 MI
her engagements In this country IN
Jean Dore."
1t Is unfortunate that Nine. Bern
hardt could not act with a company OF
| English actors. She could find as many
OF them as she needs on Broadway.
Emmy Destinn will in all probability
| be "A member OF the Chicago Opera Com
pany for a while. Cleofonte Cam
| panini wants her to open the season
| there on November Is in Aida" and II
is all but settled that she will accept
| the engagement and remain for a while
with the Western organization.
Maurice Farkoa in the new farce
Miss Information" which is Elsie
Janis's play for the present season.
| happens to play a part which Is modelled
on that OF his first cousin. He acts
FISCHER, who conducts the cabaret in
Paris known as "Fischer's," which Is
| altogether a different kind OF a cabaret
from the style familiar here. Fischer,
who is its proprietor, is a composer OF
graceful French songs and first cousin
TO NJ. Farkoa. who has often sung his
songs In his smooth, little pomade man.
ncr.
Eleanor Painter. who made such a
success in 1.-The Lilac Domino has
again proved the most delightful fea-
ture OF a work In which she sings.
Now she Is the prima donna or princess
Pat" which is to be seen soon at the
Cort Theatre.
Nothing could have distressed the
promoters OF publicity more tha the
shameless way in which the opportunl-
ties provided by the Godowsky case
were allowed to 40 TO waste. only orS
musician was discovered who had seen
tho missing man after he was reported
a. missing. Such amateurish work
casts gloom over the little knot OF self
sacrihcing experts dwelling IN obscurity.
They have been walking about with n
look OF such depression as TO suggest
some deep personal sorrow.
ITO think" said one OF them yester-
day, that after Godowsky had been re-
ported missing there was only one mu-
stefan TO come forward and swear he
had seen him. II Godowsky had been
an actor he would have been seen by
AZ least two moving picture leading Ia
dies before the second editions were
out. three vaudeville ~hsadliners would
have talked to him before the next
day. and then We could nave begun
10 work In the small fry like chorus
girls and such. Il Is enough to make
A man ashamed Of his bushes To see
the way those musical men can let an
opportunity like that go 10 seed. There
was "A chance there for half a dozen
urima donnas and hddlers and piano
players to jump into the public eye.
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they stayed there or not. But what a
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