A HORSE THIEF’S SKULL AND THE SARAH BERNHARDT ROOM. The Players Club preserves traditions. This article tells about the skull that Edwin Booth used as Yorick’s skull when he was playing Hamlet. The article says: “Booth was willed the skull from his father, fellow tragedian Junius Brutus Booth, and Booth Sr. was willed the skull from a “notorious horse thief” by the name of Fontaine, with whom Junius had once shared a jail cell.”
This article on the Untapped Cities website tells how Sarah Bernhardt, on a visit to the club, got stuck in an elevator for over an hour, and “left in a huff, vowing to never come back. The club’s members joked that the elevator was Sarah Bernhardt’s room, and it’s been called that ever since.”