The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-27

cold, but Englands indifference soon turned to infatuation.
 In 1880. piqued by 8 bad reception accorded performance at the Come die-Francaise. she left that august home in hugg. literally slamming authorities sued her for damages and won. She lost her rights as "socie- taire" of the theatre. her reserve funds out of the theatres profits were seized. and she was condemned to pay 100000 francs-a good round $2O,O00 in those days. Nothing daunted, she started on her own, frs. to England and then to America l Next she mads a triumphal tour through provincial France, Italy l Denmark, Russia and other countries Marries Dnmala.
 During this. the first of her long and great tours, she met NJ. Jacques Damala, who acted in her company. She married him in London In 1882. Returning to Paris, she took over the direction of the Theatre De L. Ambigu on the Boulevards. in the name of her son. Maurice. Who Matrices father was, by the way, Bernhardt has never divuiged. In later 1882 Bernhardt created the title role of Sardou's Fedora" The next year she bought the Porte- Saint Martin theatre. Revived her great success. La Dame Aux Came lias"--better known as Camille" in the United States-and undertook by way of change Mana Sahib." by the poetic playwright, Jean Richpin. shortly thereafter Sardou wrote for her pretentious historicalo drama entitled "Theodora,' which ran S0J consecutive performances. Then t-i.,., United States. more lucrative even than the first.
 The year 1898 finds her directress of the Renaissance, and with it be- gins the "Rostand PeNiod," perhaps the greatest of her career. In "The Kings" in ''IzeiI," The Wife of renzaccio," The Faraway Princess" and The Samaritaine," she scored success after success. She was the uncrowned queen of Europe, nothing less. And as a queen she acted. on the stage and off.
 Friends All Men.
 Those were the golden nights of the after-theatre suppers at the old Cafe Brebant, at the corner of the boulevards and the Ru Du Faubourg Montmartre, an old hostelry now fallen into decay. There, fresh from
  Bernhardt would. repair. flanked by the faithful Rostand. her manager. and perhaps one or two other men friends.
 Sarah would never allow another woman, no matter how highly con cerned, to sit at her table. The sug- gest such thing meant an inn mediate scene. better than anything the Renaissance could offer
 The old Maitre d'hotel. now moved to more lucrative but more banaI pastures in Montmartre. will tell the initiated many tales of the queens caprices: there must be truffles in lettes. with the chicken, and, of course, there was champagne in mag nuns.
 And there Bernhardt held court to princes and grand dukes and gran dees of Spain-the late Eward VII, then Prince of Wales was no strang- CT to those parties-but let Ger man princeling appear. and Sarah would insult him so stingingly and publicly that it amounted almost to an international incident. Aid. Du.. o o o
 Although an imperious queen, Sarah later was capable Of real aueenly ac- tions. Thus it was that she brought her great Italian rival, Duse, to play at the Renaissance, in order to in- troduce her to the Paris public, in 1898. Duse, touched by the invita- tion. came and gave a magnificent series Of representations of D'An- nunzios "The Dead City" In spite of the inevitable frictions of item peramcnt," Bernhardt and Duse re- mained affectionate friends to the end, each recognizing and admiring the genius of the other.
 Soon after the visit of Duae, Bern rardt established the theatre in the Place du Chatelet which today bears her name. Until her death she re- mained it's titular manager. On it's stage she interpreted all the plays Of the latter Rostand period, "L' Aiglon" and the rest, and after the death of Edmond Rostand she con tinuod to interpret the works of his sun. Maurice. Her 1921 Maurice Ros- tand vehicle, La Glore," she wed her | as radiant as ever, the golden voice" unimpaired. The offering fol : lowing that was ''regne Armand written by her son-in-law, Louis Nerneuil.
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 IL Aivlon." which she created in 1900. and "Chanticlssr." 10 year,