"... Vous êtes un des rares individus qui aient compris parfaitement "la dramaturgie de la radio"

Autograph letter signed by Tristan Bernard addressed to his friend, the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim, who was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol, but also of André Salmon and Max Jacob (21 lines in black ink on Windsor Hotel letterhead in Cannes).
Tristan Bernard lavishes praise on Carlo Rim's talents as a radio serial writer:
"Wednesday 22nd.
My old Carlo,
I read with great pleasure the sketches you sent me, and I particularly appreciated the one you dedicated to me. You are one of the rare individuals who have perfectly understood 'the dramaturgy of radio'. You have managed, in writing, to give the listener the soul of a listener. This is a task that most dramatic authors do not understand who, when they write for the theatre, take the spectator for a reader. Try to come and see me soon, with your dear Alice. I don't move around easily myself. We embrace you as well as the venerable Babou. Tristan Bernard."
During the Occupation, Tristan Bernard took refuge in Cannes and resided at the Windsor Hotel while his friend Carlo Rim suggested in vain that he stay at his house so that he would be safe from denunciation or arrest; to which Tristan Bernard, never short of witty remarks, replied: "At my age, one no longer sleeps away from home!" adding: "Do you know that I appear in the Petit Larousse? They don't arrest someone who appears in the Petit Larousse"
He was nonetheless arrested in September 1943 as a Jew and interned with his wife at Drancy then released following intervention by Sacha Guitry and Arletty the following month.
His grandson François-René was also arrested as a Resistance fighter and deported to Mauthausen where he died.