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Show IfiOMINENT FIGURES IN THE OLD WORLD Sarah Bernhardt has again denied that she intends to retire from the stage. Tho limit of her life in the theater will be only reached at her death, she has declared, and she desires to pass away like Sir Henry Irving, in the full zenith of her glory. .She declared de-clared last week that this season might bo her last, because she is an old woman wom-an and may pass nwaj" at any lime. "My life is in God's hands' she says, 'but. E shall play until my death." Edna Slay receives sonic attention from Hall Caine, Jr., who blossomed out in an interview in Paris to the effect that the sale of her story of her life, which he is about to publish, will be cnor- mous. nc declared that the British people would rather read a life story of an actress than an autobiography of n statesman or great scientist. Miss I Dolly Dombcy is one of the hits Daly's theater, London. She is playing in "The Merry Widow," and enacted the role of Fi-Ei before the part was taken up by Miss Gabriellc I?ay. Miss Dombcy Dom-bcy is considered one of the prettiest actresses ac-tresses on the Londou stage. While there is still much discussion over The Hague peace conference, General Drudo, commander-in-chief of the French forces in Morocco, is still fighting fight-ing the Moors nnd routing, them from one position to another. General Drudo recently captured the Moorish camp at Sidi-Tbrahim and compollod the submission submis-sion of the three tribes. General Drudo. is held to be a prudent and eminently I capable commander. Baron von Bie-bersteir. Bie-bersteir. of Germany has been crti-cising crti-cising the delegates to Tho Hague conference con-ference and declares that he docs not understand tho uplopianism of men like "William T. Stead of Londqn. Mr. Stead believes that immediate and general peace can be arrived at. but the baron thinks the London editor is entirely too optimistic. General Horace Porter, one of the. delegates from the United States, has also come under the criticism of German critics because he referred to an unpleasantness between the dele-gates dele-gates as t(a lovers' quarrel. " I ,-: . ' |