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Show A Radical Difference Noted A friend of mine has a friend who has a friend who, according to his other two friends, went abroad while Victoria, the beloved, was still on the throne of Great Britain. In London one night the traveler saw Madame Bernhardt play in "Anthony and Cleopatra." The scene came where Cleopatra receives re-ceives news of Mark Anthony's defeat at Actium. Bernhardt was at her best as Egypt's fiery queen that night. She stabbed the unfortunate slave who had borne the tidings to her, stormed, raved, frothed at the mouth, wrecked some of the scenery In her frenzy and finally, ns the curtain fell, dropped in a shuddering, convulsive heap. As the thunderous applause died down, the American heard a middle-j middle-j aed British matron in the next seat i remarking to her neighbor In tones of satisfaction : "How different how very different from the home life of our own dear aneen |