Mme. Bernhardt Will Have Leg Amputated on Sunday Morning
A moving telegram from the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt explains why, rather than live confined to a sofa, she chose amputation so she could return to the stage and join the cause of aiding wounded soldiers.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Page 1
1 min readPARIS, Feb. 20.
Maurice Barres, who is conducting a campaign to aid war cripples, has received the following telegram from Sarah Bernhardt:
"Your last articles, an appeal for the invalids of the war, touched me deeply, perhaps because I am going to have my leg cut off Sunday and thus join the great army of the mutilated. I could have kept my leg if I had been willing to live stretched on a sofa. The surgeons asked me to give them five months, but I refused. Why? Because longing for the theater filled me. I would rather be mutilated than powerless.
"Work is my life. I want to work again, and thus, recovering [...]"
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