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Show MME. SARAH BERNHARDT, who, at 75 years, is preparing to .reappear on the stage in her beloved be-loved Paris. -. If , re-eSbstsee I Famous Tragedienne Making Mak-ing Ready for Reappearance Reappear-ance Before Parisians. By ROBERT J. PREW, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. (Special Cable Dispatch.) PARTS, Dec. 10. Conveyed in a wheel chair from her automobile to the stage, Sarah Bernhardt this evening directed the production at her theater of a new play, "Maison Cornos," set in Jerusalem, the "Divine Sarah's" - remarkable vital- ity completely dominating the stage. 1 Prompting the company from behind one of the wings, she inspired the players play-ers to some brilliant histrionic work. "Don't tell me you've got to go to surgeons sur-geons or chemists to rind the fountain of youth," she said to Universal Service, between the acts. "Work without worry wor-ry and a God-given strength and constitution consti-tution that's the sole secret of my vitality." vi-tality." Although years of age and having had one leg amputated, the famous tragedienne tra-gedienne is about to reappear on the stae in the title role of Racines "Atha-lic." "Atha-lic." She will be carried on the stage in a specially constructed chair, from which she will play her part. Later she expects to act in Rostand's "Lointaine," under similar conditions. As one beheld the "Divine Sarah" feverishly fev-erishly working" behind the scenes tonight and zestful as any blushing debutante could be, one could not help but realize that France is a wonderful country for old people to keep young. Clemenceau is 7S, Alexand Ribot 77. And then there are Jean Paul Daurenz, the painter, 81; Camille Flam mar ion, the astronomer, 77; Anatole France, 75 all doing their best work long after having passed the sixties. |