The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
Received By Madame Bernhardt After the Performance Tuesday Evening, Dolly Dalrymple
 Gives Her Impressions of the Noted Actress
By DOLLY pALRYMPLE

NWIl ceive you after the perform ance this evening"" said Miss Elizabeth Ormsby, Madame Sarah Bern
 hardts interpreter as we stood in the
 observation end of the "Mayflower," the
 noted actress's private car, 20 minutes
 after the arrival of the company here Tuesday afternoon.
 For a moment I was bewildered:
 Where was Madame?" Why couldn't I see her then?" Whats that? Madame
 has not yet arrived" Madame is mo
 toring to Birmingham from Atlantaw
 How could she? It is impossible
 With every one perhaps, except
 Madame"
 It was Miss Ormsbys voice again that aroused me from my reverie. Madame
 is the most wonderful creature in the
 world. Nothing is impossible with her.
 And Miss Ormsby knows, for she has
 been closer to Madame Bernhardt for
 the past few years, than anybody else,
 perhaps in the world.
 | l had the pleasure of meeting this
 young woman five years ago in Bir-
 mngham when Madame Bernhardt graci-
 ous1y granted me the privilege of an audience for the first time; it was a memorable occasion, in more ways than
 one; do you happen to recall that
 Madame Bernhardt's Heading man" then was the now famous M. LouTellegen.
 l had also the pleasure of meeting this l distinguished gentleman. 1 As 1 glanced about the sumptuous pri-
 vate car that Madame Bernhardt travels l in, l mentally observed that the world s greatest traSedienne is also a veritable 1 queen, with her court ever attending her; | in the luxurious palace on wheels there ! was every evidence of splendor and elegance; flowers in quantities; gorgeous satin and lace pillows, piled high upon divans, where Madame takes her rest; her maids. her nurses, her own physician, pr. DeHuc Boisvigine (the same who f attended her during her terrible ill-
 ness and operationl, guards her health while ell tour and by the way gentle man of most affable personality, and
 then another circle of attendants from all of whom some admiration In some | degree l discovered as Miss Ormsby
 extending every hospitality allowed me | to peep into the sanctum sanctorum of their private life.
 | Marie Antionette by her faithful Swiss
 guard was not more royalty or Loyalty protected than this beloved actress whom
 the world honors and adores 1 And so it is that Madame Bernhardt
 is never left alone to baffle with doubts
 and fears and the horrible news of war i and misery in her country; she is not permitted to commune with the years behind her; only the rose-colored present | and the crimson tinted future are al- 1 lowed to enter her thoughts. Yes, I recall so pleasantly your last visit to us-way out somewhere around Birmingham where our car was sta l lioned-and MT. O'Sullivan Cfadame Bernhardt's manager), brought you to us. Madame will be pleased to receive you after the performance this evening, Miss Ormsby repeated
 A bit disappointed. A trifle ruffled? Yes; but what's a poor little newspaper creature to do when royalty proposes
 and disposes?
 And then an afternoon of doubts and fears that perhaps, after all, Madame would not grant an audience after the performance, but true to her word, she did.
 will you not give to yourself the trouble to enter, dear Madame?" I stood bewildered at the threshold of the great actresss dressing room as the familiar golden voice of the divine Sarah called to me- and following the lovely voice I entered the presence of this wonderful woman again" She took my hand and bade me be seated. ''Merci," she said in her beautiful
 French. Tt is good of you to come" You must not thank me, madame I said, you who are accustomed to every l homage; it is I who must thank you for letting me come to you' Turning to Miss Ormsby I asked her to tell Madame how she was beloved by
 very body in our fair southland Again I thank you" came the golden voice of Madame. I'm appreciativeA One can never become blase of kindness; the heart has no wrinkle and love is love always. My health? It goes very. very we'll You see I work, I learn, l voyage. Tired? Jamais' Madame will perhaps work until 8 or 4 o'clock when we get back to our car" Miss Ormsby told me. She seems never to grow tired"
 Catching the thread of the converse tion, Madame Bernhardt said: .I never think of the years; they are nothing to mel
 Thus the super-woman; the super woman of whom we have all heard and have offered definitions concerning, but here was the exultant thrill of finding her!
 Charm is Madame Bernhardt's hand maiden and isn't it our friend Mir. Bar rie who says "If woman has charm, she needs nothing else?" Youth is charms twin sister; and the twin creates cordon about the wonder 1 full French actress that gives her ever lasting love, extravagant praise, adula- 1 ton, illusion and the divine Sarah lives 1 in this atmosphere, this enchanted fairy land and her powerful brain sweeps with l it's searchlight the world of 'makebe- !, lieye," and there she finds herself ell | tKfoned a queen, with the world as her court protecting her against all that would tend to age her or to trouble her. i "Do I dare mention the dreadful hated, vicious red hand of war;" l asked Miss Ormsbv after a moment.
 ''It depends upon just what you ask,
 she replied tactfully. There is tre-