Mrs Dery Where Are You

Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of biggesture theater Her beauty and popularity is fading and a new school of acting which involves the use of ones own emotions ala Eleanora Duse is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival She thinks of retiring from the stage and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newlybuilt manor in the country Finding that life there is boring she returns to town the theater and her old friends