1942-08-10: (The Premier of Sanité Bélair at the Rex Theatre — Some Anticipating That the “Subject Was Too Well Known” for Perez’s Theatrical Staging, Howeve…

1942-08-10: (The Premier of Sanité Bélair at the Rex Theatre — Some Anticipating That the “Subject Was Too Well Known” for Perez’s Theatrical Staging, However as One Reviewer Recounted the Day After the Premier at the Rex Theatre on August 10 1942 “This Magnificent Drama with True Events and Feelings Hugging Historical Truth Had Through Its Reenactment of the Past the Great Success of Not Falling into What Is Called the ‘False Ideal’ — On the Contrary a ‘True’ Ideal Emerges,” After the First Act the Reviewer Stating “Mrs. Perez Is to Be Congratulated — the Performance Is Sober Clear Quick”): Some anticipated that the subject was too well known for Perez’s theatrical staging of Sanité Bélair’s life. However, as one reviewer recounted the day after the premier at the Rex Theatre on August 10, 1942, this magnificent drama, with true events and feelings, hugging historical truth, had through its reenactment of the past the great success of not falling into what is called the false ideal — on the contrary, a true ideal emerged. After the first act, the reviewer stated that Mrs. Perez was to be congratulated, that the performance was sober, clear, quick — the praise confirmed that Perez had found a way to make the familiar story new, to stage revolutionary history not as pageantry but as urgency.