Funeral services were held here today for Henri Bernstein, one of France’s most popular playwrights, who died here Friday at the age of 77.
M. Bernstein sent back an Italian decoration when Mussolini joined with Hitler. He fled to the United States in 1940 when France was occupied by the Nazis. In the U.S. he was actively pro-Gaulist and anti-Petain.
His plays were so popular in France and Europe that for one period of ten years no single night went by without one of his plays being performed and at one time there were 80 performances of his plays going on at the same time in various parts of Europe.
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