Sarah Bernhardt

Reading notes

• The Theatrical Ticket-Touts' Cooperative §1 Sarah Bernhardt

  The celebrated French actress, whose triumphant 1881 tour of Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg) was a major theatrical event and a magnet for ticket speculators.

• The Baron §3 Sarah Bernhardt

  The celebrated French actress (1844-1923) whose triumphant tours -- including to America and Russia -- made her name a byword for theatrical glamour, the butt of the backstage joke here.

• Philosophical Definitions of Life §1 Sarah Bernhardt

  The celebrated French actress, whose sensational Russian tour was fresh news at the time -- the first of the piece's mock attributions, pinning a coarse bathhouse image on a glamorous star.

• The Sinner from Toledo §58 Sarah Bernhardt

  The celebrated French actress, whose fame by 1880 made her name a natural touchstone in a mock-questionnaire probing readers' brushes with celebrity.

• This and That (Letters and Telegrams) §3 Sarah's

  Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, was touring the Russian empire in late 1880 and drew feverish, ticket-scalping crowds -- the sensation this entire sketch of letters and telegrams satirizes.

• Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §7 Sarah Bernhardt

  The celebrated French actress, invoked here as a byword for scandalous, frequent divorce.