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Show I BERNHARDT STILL YOUTHFUL 1 i I Tho emotional, fervid and over youthful Horn-. i hardt Is once again ln our midst. With a repcr- '"c 'ui ))) tolro of zi Ploys, sho will tour this country for 111 C TiA Blx months nnd will then visit Cuba and Moxlco, tI' MJk' Ww&r 0f cours. "tho Divlno Sarah" how many million; ' W "'(,Y'(k times has sho boon callod that? has mado the W WkM-j' "r lnovltablo statement that this Is her farowollj M ! v!hpJJ tour, but American thoator-goerB aro hardenodj KK '' b disillusioned. Tho most tm?tlng patron of thol m si!L' drama, whoso wldo-oyed bollof ln tho truth of M iSi.. many stage legends Is almost pathetic, bocomes W " JWT' cynical and poovish whon tho term "farowoll Vm ep- "i tour" Is used ln connection with any colobrlty flS. w ' . U most of all Sarah of tho burnished tresses. Sarah J v has "farowellod" too often. Wm ' ' N But whon you got right down to it, whq TM wants hor to retire, anyway? When a woman of; I m can play tho part of a lithesome lad of 10 play it wondorfully, with all i'M tttn Brace and vivacity which tho rolo demands why should sho retire i7 K Vhy shouldn't sho go right on playing until she's 100 if sho wants to? Ill kim :Sarah has this Idea in mind and cortainly it scorns that sho has sho can) Mm -count on Amoricans backing hor up for many a long year to como. It has been said ,ln fact one reads it in every account of Mmo. Bern-I $Lm hardt'o careor, that sho lookB barely half hor ago. That, of courso, isn't so; to Bay that tho world-famous B'rench actresB appears to bo only about 34 off mm tho stago "in real llfo" is an exaggeration. But that her flguro is as slender 29 nd Btraight as any glrl'o, her oyo bright and hr comploxion cloar &nd i iSM 'Jbeltby' cannot b denied. , A. Kf |