CHAPTER VIII

_MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT_

Sarah Bernhardt and her Tomb—The Actress’s Holiday—Love of her Son—Sarah Bernhardt Shrimping—Why she left the Comédie Française—Life in Paris—A French Claque—Three Ominous Raps—Strike of the Orchestra—Parisian Theatre Customs—Programmes—Late Comers—The _Matinée_ Hat—Advertisement Drop Scene—First Night of _Hamlet_— Madame Bernhardt’s own Reading of _Hamlet_—Yorick’s Skull—Dr. Horace Howard Furness—A Great Shakesperian Library 151