BERNHARDT, SARA, b. about 1845; time daughter of a Jewish father and a Dutch mother. Time mother brought her, a mere child, from Amsterdam to Paris, and placed her in a convent at Versailles, where she remained several years. On leavino. the convent she was asked what she intended to become. The reply was, " An actress at theComedic Francais. or a nun." Obtaining admission to the conservatoire she soon exhibited marks of talent. She made her first appearance in 1862 as Iphigenlea, in Victor Ilugo's version of the old Greek tragedy of 1philgeneia in Aulk and she was at once successful. After wards at the Comedic, at the Gymnase, at the Porte St.. Martin, and others, she appeared in such plays as Phadre, Brdannieus, The Marriage of Figaro, The Stranger, Anne l'ainen, etc., always with increasing success. Perhaps her strongest character is Donna S9l, in Victor Hugo's Hernani. In 1879, she appeared in London with great success. Efforts, thus far unsuccessful, have been made to bring her to the United States. She is not
only an actress of wonderful brilliancy, but a sculptor of no mean repute, and also something of a painter. In person she is remarkable; a thin, attenuated, nervous organ ization. but little more than a skeleton, but as full of life as the most robust of creatures. Her private life is peculiar; she dresses for the most part in trousers and pea-jacket, a 1ppolite, till his death in 1536. His Opere Burlesche vois., Flor. 1549; Lond. 1721) are to be found in the Classici Italiani (Mil. 1806). His recast or rifacimento of Boiardo's Orlando Innamiirato was received with such favor that it was thrice reprinted from 1541 to 1545. A critical edition was published at Florence.1827. Berni's version, or dilution, is still read in Italy, in preference to the origin:IL—COUNT FMANCESCO BEENI, b. 1610, d. 1693, the author of eleven dramas, and some lyric pieces, is not to be confounded with the former Bend.