Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 170, 16 July 1906 — Page 7

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REMARKABLE FEATURES OF BERNHARDT8 RECENT TOUR OF AMERICA. She traveled 27,000 mile. Played to gross ;eccipt of $1,088,000. Performances were attended by i 530,000 people. I Appeared 226 times. She toured Texas in a tent and didn't lose her temper once. During her last eighteen hours In New York she played two engagements consisting of four acts each, which acts were the strongest scenes in noted plays, attended a farewell dinner in her honor given by the managers of her tour, dictated thirty-eight letters, gave five interview to newspaper men, denied the sensational story that she lived principally on sour milk, distributed gifts to the men who conducted her tour, slept four hours, ate two meals, directed the packing of nine trunks and caught by three minutes the steamship Touraine for Paris. THERE was never In the history of the theatrical world such an exhibition of physical and mental endurance as that Given by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest of all 'tragediennes since the days of Rachel. There was never such a display of cheerful and continued optimism In the face of overwhelmingly heavy odds as this woman of sixtytwo gave In her farewell tour of the United, States and Canada. There was never a theatrical tour of any character so filled with original and startling Incidents and which so upset all traditions and theories and which has established precedent and set the pace for all time. The press agent avers that Mme. Bernhardt Is the greatest of all the world's geniuses. He points with lrlde to the fact that sho is artist, culptress, actress, musician; that she Wandles the brush and the whip with tubal ease. He tells you how she Js writing the story of her life In 300,000 words, tor be published In every language in tho world, from English to tho most polished Hottentot, and you read and are expected to and generally do worship. Hut the simplo truth of the business Js that Bernhardt Is so much greater and so much more interesting than the description of her press agent makes her that he falls short of his full duty through physical inability to finish the job. And in nothing is Bernhardt as much worthy of attention, saving indeed, in her art itself, as in the marvelous resistance she showed in her recent tour to adverse circumstances which ngalnst less determined optimism would have ruined a mortal or have unit n battleship. In the beginning, there was a system by which every man had a right to do us ho pleased. Then some of the theatrical managers in New York got together and remarked that it wouldn't do at all. Ro they organized a little Yachting fJIIE yachting season Is in full B swing. Those water wise H yokels who call 1906 an "off year" simply because no America's cup races are scheduled had better revise their "dope" books. ' The America's cup races do more harm than good to tho development of American yachting. That Is a radical statement, but one that can be well maintained. The big International races for ninety footers so dwarf interest in other branches of yachting, particularly in the east, that actual progress among the body of active racers of smaller craft is prac tically at a standstill during the year that they occur. Fewer racing craft ere built In America's cup years than In any other. Then, again, yachtsmen are led astray by the lessons taught by races for ninety footers. These races Indicate what lines in- a ninety footer's hull aro most effective under certain conditions, but they don't Indicate what would be most effective In a fifty or forty or-thirty or twenty-five footer's underb.ody. The man who builds a email boat based on the lines of Re liance or Columbia will regret it. as I many another has done. Now why la this? If a big boat built along certain lines breaks records, why won't a smaller craft, a duplicate of the larger one, prove a record breaker In her respective class? The fastest catboat In the world is one holding the championship of Narragansett Bay, H. I. Tho fastest sloop In the world is Reliance, which defeated Lipton's Shamrock III. In the last America's cup races. The lines of Re liance's deep hull are well known. The catboat in question sits almost fiat on the water. Can any better argument be advanced? Wrestler Beell Challenges Gotch. So Fred Beell, the new heavyweight wrestling aspirant for championship honors, challenges Frank Gotch. Well,

N Beell is too ambitious. He is a shifty ' lad, and very c;pev;tjro,but Gotch,

in numuoiai ua.j star, inar nis su perior. Gotch Is the greatest all aroun.1 wrestler America has ever produced that Is. he is when ho works at his best speed. For four years Gotch has been a better mat worker than Tom Jenkins ver was. Gotch has been said to ; A. ID) u mm II II II II 11.11 II II 31 '

Sarah Bernhardt's Recent American Tour

The Great Tragedienne Was Optimistic Under All CircumstancesGallant Governor of Texas Comes to the Rescue

"4 fJZ ,7 Sa 13 - si.. jr.. r4' x J social body for the purpose of humorously gobbfing up all the theaters in the country, and there it was tho theatrical syndicate, the trust, some people call it. It happened that Mme. Bernhardt was originally cloned for this tour by Sam S. Shubert, who was killed In a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad. His brother, Lee Shubert, took up the contract and William F. Connor became associated with him and personally . directed the tour. The question arose as a first essential where will Mme. Bernhardt play? That brought on more talk. Could the houses controlled by the syndicate be opened to the great tragedienne? "Why," said Mr. Syndicate, "certainly. Mme. Bernhardt can play In any house she elects, but" In an aside to the local manager "if you play Bernhardt you don't get any more syndicate attractions." When Bernhardt started out in Chicago with her great week she had no idea of what was before her. The Grand Opera House was a beautiful little theater everything was "just too sweet for anything" and Mme. Bernhardt was kept busy saying "Merci!" for the good things people said about her and did for her. It didn't last long that way, but madame Just kept on saying "Merci!" because she is a good fellow. Altogether she played some of the most remarkable places ever heard of in the amusement business. For instance: The Bernhardt tent Dallas, Waco and Duluth.

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'V AS HBRSSfflfk Skating rinks Savannah, Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta, Atlanta, Fort Wayne, Winnipeg and Spokane. Auditoriums Kansas City, Omaha, Nashville, Chattanooga and Peoria. Summer theaters Little Rock, Ark., five miles from the city in a driving rain; Des Moines, la., Ingersoll Park theater, two miles and a half out; Seattle, Leschi park, three miles out. Naturally the tent tour of Texas was the largest and most comprehensive incident Illustrating the difficulties of playing Bernhardt. In thl; case the management of the Greenwall circuit, controlling the Texas theaters in which Bernhardt could play to the capacity required by her enormous expenses, was notified that playing Bernhardt would mean the withdrawal of all future syndicate business. To defy the trust would have meant suicide financially, or so the local managers thought. They yielded. In Austin, for instance, Bernhardt had been billed to appear in the Hopkins Grand Opera House. At the last moment, and when all the advertising had been arranged on that basts, Manager George Walker received an intimation from New York that the rule would apply to him. He tried hard to escape the penalty, but at last canceled the engagement and forced the Bernhardt management to add Austin to the list of tent towns. She didn't play the tent there, however. Dallas was the first tent town. Twelve thousand crowded into the canvas inclosure, and those that couldn't get through the door just tore the side walls down near the stage and ............j...

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went in anyhow. It stormed the next night at Waco, but Mme. Bernhardt, on the temporary Ftage and behind the strange curtains, played on. It never occurred to her that anything out of the ordinary had happened. Some of the audience kept apprehensive eyes on the entrance, in case the wind should take a notion to topple the big piece of dry goods over on their heads, but Bernhardt knew nothing of it until somebody mentioned the fact that thero have his own reasons for not showing this to be true. Beell has not the weight or the strength to beat Gotch. Harvey Parker developed Beell, who hails from Wisconsin. Parker is losing his Judgment in his old age. While Beell is a star, he is no champion just yet. With Judicious handling, however, he could become champion in a very few years. Parker is foolish to match Beell against Gotch, for while a defeat by the champion won't do him any harm, it won't do him any great good. Should Meet Jenkins Again. Beell should go up against Tom Jenkins again. Beell is a strong offensive as well as defensive wrestler. With proper training he could weigh In in the middleweight class, I don't doubt, and he would be the best man at that class weight limit in the country, catch-as-catch-can style. In the Greco-Roman class Champion Piening, the heavyweight Brooklyn "butcher boy," has him beaten. As is the case with most able heavyweight wrestlers, Beell's chest and shoulders are developed out of proportion to his legs. It's the weight above the waist line that counts most in wrestling. Haekenschmidt is about the only big mat man who is developed proportionately well from head to feet. In the lightweight class Champion George Bothner's figure is superbly proportioned. Noisy Charley Murphy. i President Charles W. Murphy, the big noi3e of the fast Chicago National ball team, plainly considers himself the biggest man in baseball in America. Charley is aggressive and successful, but he ought to o slow and feel his way more. Walt till he gets Into the thick of National league politics and has to match his blustering blarneyings against the subtle cunning and underground maneuvers of such masters as John T. Brush of New York, Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati and Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg. These three men last named are seldom heard in the roaring gallery, but they will take Charley's measure ere long or I miss my guess. Crooked New York Racing. Governor Higgins of New York put the kibosh on the fighting fakirs, and ...4.rr54ID) U (01 Ar

was a storm going on. Then she only smiled and made her entrance, to be denounced by Armond Duval, to be insulted and to take it all so much to heart that the feminine portion of the audience declared the young Duval to be "too mean for anything!" There were six Irishmen connected with the Bernhardt tour in managerial or representative capacities. They were William F. Connor, the impresario and personal director of the tour; Ed

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FRED PARENT, GREAT BOSTON AMERICAN SHORTSTOP.

now he ought to stick a knife into the enormous bubble of running turf c-;." kedness that has become Inflated at some of t'ae metropolitan tracks. Running turf races, at best, are uncertain, but when the venality of Jockeys, trainers and tricky owners is added to this the result Is kaleidoscopic, to say the least. 4- 4-A

0 lent i.i t x t-r v. ward J. Sullivan, acting manager with the company and treasurer; George H. Murray, general business representa tive; William E. Gorman, general busi ness representative; Walter J. Kingsley, general press representative, and John J. Murphy, general assistant to all the other generals. The Celts cap tured the Parleyvoos, according to the usual application and conception of the truism that there Is nothing too good for the Irish. There is no use In going Into details. There are too many to record. Suffice n to say tnat tne Jockey club. In appointing a herd of detectives to watch the Jockeys and trainers, does not have any one to watch the detectives, who In some cases are instigators in putting through deals to aid the bookmakers. HARRY GRANT.

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