TALKIES OFFER IMMORTALITY
The ta-king picture offers immortality to scores of famous stage stars and motion picture artists, since it forms a living record of their performance which will survive even after their deaths. Even the silent picture tempted the famous Sarah Bernhardt to star in “Queen Elizabeth,” one of the first motion pictures ever produced. “It is my once chance for immortality,” she said when accepting the offer for the part. In the past the art of many famous stage stars had died with them, now it will survive. Of what inestimable value would be the living records of such artists of the stage as Henry Irving, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Duse in modem time*?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 20
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116TALKIES OFFER IMMORTALITY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 20
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