Download or read book The Memoirs of Sarah Barnum written by Marie Colombier and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Sarah Barnum written by Marie Colombier and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MEMOIRS OF SARAH BARNUM written by MARIE. COLOMBIER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Sarah Barnum written by Marie Colombier and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Sarah Barnum Classic Reprint written by Marie Colombier and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Memoirs of Sarah Barnum A copy of Mario Colombier's book, "Sarah Barnum," which is an account of the adventures of Sarah Bernhardt in this country, arrived by the last French steamer, and was obtained by a publishing house in New York Wednesday morning. A force of translators, sixty-nine in number, was immediately set to work, and the volume, containing 350 pages, was finished at ten o'clock that night. The scandal of the day is the appearance of a book called 'Memoirs of Sarah Barnum." by Mlle. Marie Colombier, who writes with mud and ordure what purports to be the memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, the authoress' ex-friend and directress during her tour in America. Marie Colombier begins with Sarah Bernhardt in the cradle, drags her whole life through the mire, and winds up a terrible soi-distant prophecy, where Sarah is represented dying and having cut open her head and face from striking the bedstead during an attack of delirium tremens. The first outcome of this abominable book was a duet yesterday morning between Octave Mirbeau, who wrote a scathing criticism of the book, and M. Paul Bonnetain, who wrote the preface to the memoirs. M. Bonnetain received two slight wounds. M. Bonnetain's seconds were Prince Karageorgevitch and the Marquis de Talleyrand. Tho duel begun In the morning by the men was continued in the afternoon by the women, and under the most unique circumstances. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt went in the morning to see M. Clement, Commissaire aux Delegations Judiciares, to find out whether the law did not give her the right to seize the book and stop its sale. Being told that she must first take legal proceedings and await the decision of the judges, Sarah Bernhardt went home again. Meanwhile Maurice Bernhardt, assuming the obligation of avenging his mother's honor, hastened to the apartment of M. Bonnetain, but finding that he had already gone out to fight a duel with M. Mirbeau, he changed his mind and went to No. 9 Rue de Thann, where Marie Colombier resides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People written by Irving Wallace and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents intimate and revealing information about the sexual exploits of over two hundred famous individuals of the near and distant past.
Download or read book Sarah written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Phallic Frenzy written by Joseph Lanza and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Russell has made some of the most daring, disturbing, and beautifully photographed films of all time. Drawing from a wealth of historic and literary references, Russell's subjects are astounding: deranged Ursuline nuns in a 17th-century French province, the inner demons of Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, the sexual angst of Tchaikovsky, the emotionally drained life of Rudolph Valentino, the messianism of a pinball wizard, the fury of lesbian vampires, the introspections of prostitutes. Russell's movies offer not just brazen sensationalism but food for thought; they horrify yet inspire. And through it all, Russell maintains a simultaneously impish and intellectual sense of humor. The first full biography of the director, Phallic Frenzy is far from a dry, film-by-film analysis. It shows how Russell's real life has often been as engaging and vibrant as his film scenarios. Here you'll learn how Alan Bates and Oliver Reed compared their penis sizes for the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love; how Russell disfigured Paddy Chayevsky's script for Altered States by having the actors holler out the lines as fast as possible, accompanied by spewed food and streams of spittle; and how Russell was slated to direct Evita, starring Liza Minnelli, and the “creative differences” that ensued. A madcap tale full of wild ideas, surreal situations, and a cavalcade of colorful personalities, Phallic Frenzy is as thrilling a ride as any Ken Russell film.
Download or read book The Diva and Doctor God written by Caroline De Costa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Female Spectacle written by Susan A. Glenn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
Download or read book Playing Cleopatra written by Holly Grout and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture. In Playing Cleopatra, Holly Grout uses the theater—specifically, Parisian stage performances of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra by Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker—to explore these cultural and political debates. How and why did portrayals of Cleopatra influence French attitudes regarding race, sexuality, and gender? To what extent did Bernhardt, Colette, and Baker manipulate the image of Cleopatra to challenge social norms and to generate new models of womanhood? Why was Cleopatra—an ancient, mythologized queen—the chosen vehicle for these spectacular expressions of modern womanhood? In the context of late nineteenth-century Egyptomania, Cleopatra’s eroticized image—as well as her controversial legacy of female empowerment—resonated in new ways with a French public engaged in reassessing feminine sexuality, racialized beauty, and national identity. By playing Cleopatra, Bernhardt, Colette, and Baker did more than personify a character; they embodied the myriad ways in which celebrity was racialized, gendered, and commoditized, and they generated a model of female stardom that set the stage for twentieth-century celebrity long before the Hollywood machine’s mass manufacture of “stars.” At the same time, these women engaged with broader debates regarding the meaning of womanhood, celebrity, and Frenchness in the tumultuous decades before World War II. Drawing on plays, periodicals, autobiographies, personal letters, memoirs, novels, works of art, and legislation, Playing Cleopatra contributes to a growing body of literature that examines how individuals subverted the prevailing gender norms that governed relations between the sexes in liberal democratic regimes. By offering employment, visibility, and notoriety, the theater provided an especially empowering world for women, in which the roles they played both reflected and challenged contemporary cultural currents. Through the various iterations in which Bernhardt, Colette, and Baker played Cleopatra, they not only resurrected an ancient queen but also appropriated her mystique to construct new narratives of womanhood.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
