Avstnat, Toco, The Authorized Life of the Poet Marquis Hel-
'M, Gultry touches very lightly and modestly on hig own career but his} book bristles with lively anecdotes, and names famous inurl, literature, tee stage and polities pass in process sion through these pages.
Wide as M. Guitry's travels have been he reinaing entirely French in hig outlook, and: quotes—with evident relish-—the following extract from his father's Memoirs of 1882:
'Oh that trip to London, arriving on Saturday night' at six!' Everything was abut, and the next day was Sune Gay!" And" the day. th found something to dot That Wednesday was his tath wedding day: his witness was Sarah Bernhardt, Thirty-seven years later when Sacha married Yvonne Prin-temps, his witness was Sarah Bern-herat.
Madame Sarah played a the lives of the Gultry family, and though many. star told of her eccentricities, M. Gul to the constancy of the at great actress.
The following anecdote will appear especially to " those Interested tour theatricals, and 7 8 for the original performance of "L'Aigion:"
It ig not clear how Major Bodley came to be authorized to write 2 life of Admiral Togo, but the origin of the book seems simple; the author, Glscovering that no such fe of the famous Japanese Admiral had been written, and having several months fof leisure, undertook to research. Into this interesting subject during] his two years' sojourn in the Island Empire, The task, as he knew, would be formidable, for reference docu~ ments were limited, Admiral Togo hhimeelt had been extremely. uncommunleative, and any direct informa-ton from his fellow-countrymen would be given in a spirit of bund admiration, Sources being circumscribed, the result taker the form of a sketch Togo's career in the Imperial Navy. The fact. that this work can: hot be described as an "Intimate"
is hardly the fault of Major Bodley, since from first to last Togo was a servant of his country and his! Emperor; his devotion to both ruled his existence. During his long life Japan is seen emerging from a state fof almost medieval obscurity to the position of a. first-class Power, and to Admiral Togo is assigned the credit of building up a navy anxious to be second to none. It is upon this side of the hero's life that the author dwells, atten for one thirty. The cast would arrive in its own good time, one after er. my father. (Lucien Guitry). Strolling tin at two thirty. oF Tater! Edmond Nostand would turn up about three o'clock, and. at. about. ten minutes" to four. Sarah entrance, Admiral Togo's ancestors were samurai of the Satsuma clan, living Inthe southern part of Kyushu. After the visit of Commodore Perry 1853, the Lord of Satsuma realized the menace from the "outer barbbarans" and laid the foundations of the navy which Togo and his brothers to join. His Baptism of fire came when British despatched costume of Lorenzacclo, fcortume helping to. esta mood. "Ar soon as she hi However, at five o'clock tt was inter:
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