1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bernhardt, Sarah

BERNHARDT, SARAH [] (1845-      ), French actress (see 3.801), made a specially successful tour in America in 1906. In 1909 she played Jeanne d'Arc in Paris. In 1910 she again toured in America. In 1913 she was given the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Though lame as the result of an operation, she appeared in Nov. 1920 in Paris in a new play Daniel, by Louis Verneuil, and repeated this in London in April 1921.