Evening star., 1923-03-27

of the Comedie Franchise. She clashed
! repeatedly with NJ Perrin. the man.
ager, over the roles she should take.
and once, in fit OF pique. fed from
the theater and decided to give up the
! stage. She plunged into sculpture.
| Her first piece. After the Storm
| finished years later-won a place in
| the salon. She returned to NJ. Perrin
curing a forfeit of 1000 pounds.
which she paid.
| She invaded England, receiving a
| tremendous ovation, then toured
Denmark and Russia. Next she came
| to America. where her success was in
stantaneous. She toured the United
| States and Canada eight times in
some thirty-tve years, and appeared
several times in the larger cities of
/ South America.
| Breaking with the theatrical syndi-
! Gates which denied her the use of
! their theaters when she refused to
come to their terms, she was COM
| PEELED to appear on one OF her Amer
1 lean tours In tents, convention halls
and armOrieS. She vowed never 10
| appear in a theater again, but on sub
! sequent visits she came to terms with
the SyndiCateS.
| The great actress was a grand
! mother when she last appeared in
! America, and had suffered amputation
! of her right leg. Upon her arrival in
| New York, October, 1915. It was evil
|
mirers who gathered to welcome her
! that she walked with extreme diff
! Guilty.
While playing in New England she
! contracted a severe cold, which
prompted her to take a trip south for
! her health. A few weeks later she
underwent an operation for infection
| of the kidney. and, although more
than, seventy years Of age, she en-
| joyed complete recovery, and re-
ma!ned in America for several months.
Horsewhipped Author.
The injury to her knee, which COM
| PEELED the amputation of her leg In
| 1915, was attributed TO many diff
| ferent causes, For years before the
amputation the plays in which she
appeared were altered to hide the fact
that she was able to walk only with
| great difficulty. The operation was
! performed in Paris. and upon her re-
| covery she reappeared on the stag
TO receive the greatest ovation of her
| career. Her manager announced that
henceforth she would interpret only
| motionless roles.
| During the world war Bernhardt
made several trips to the French
front and gave a number of per
formances for the soldiers. This. she
| declared. was the incompatible
| event" of her life.
| The memoirs of Bernhard sedulous-
| ly avoid any mention of her marital
| experience, and only in the middle OF
the bulky volume does she mention
| casually the existence of son. One
of her critics declared that she never
seemed to find the man who could
master her"
There was in her" he continued
| 1.-The making of a superwoman, and
| although she met Victor Hugo and
| the greatest intellectual potentates of
her time, the superman, who alone
could hold her, never entered her
life"
! Years ago a jealous rival of her
| theatrical career published satire
entitled The Story OF Sarah Bar
num- in which the love affairs of the
actress, real and alleged, were shame
| lessly laid bare. Bernhard resorted
to the horse whip to punish the au-
| thor.
In 1882 the actress was married to
| Jacques Damala, a handsome Greek,
who had made a name in the the
atrica world through his work in
| The Ironmaster." He later took a
| minor part in one of her plays, but
| after a year on tour they separated.
| Later she took him back to her home
| and nursed him through fatal siege
| of tuberculosis.
Nine Bernhardt's natural son, Mau-
; rice, showed no inclination to follow