Word: bernhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harry Lafayette Reichenbach, 49, press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after...
...years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve made hers. Her friends included Gounod, with whom she studied Marguerite, Verdi when he was old and gnarled, Sarah Bernhardt who gave her points in acting and taught her makeup, Oscar Wilde who after his disgrace begged money of her on a Paris street. She sang duets with King Oscar II of Sweden. She was made Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in consideration of £100,000 earned...
...begun in 1853 as a service between terminals in Chicago, has carried the person or baggage of almost all people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many years through Chicago's crosstown streets. A special bus, No. 55, is known as "The Presidential Coach" and is always kept...
...cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what it meant in French. Her mother, who lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices, seldom socializes, has not danced with anyone except her husband since her marriage. She enjoys reading Rostand, Conrad and Ferber; she attends the theatre six nights a week when she is not working...
Other distinguished French persons who have been associated with the Cercle in the past are Jules Cambon, Andre Tardieu, and Sarah Bernhardt...