The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-25

body knows that never was equal 10 tha OF the freu III
trooedtenne.
Ard repeat it, Rsches success does moi approach that
of her predecessor.
All the worse for the Americans.
They appeared To consider IL a matter Of course that
The French troqedinn. should leave her native and
risk Der lite 10 have the pleasure Of repeating poetry In
the country Of Washington and Benjamin Franklin What
worse they did not understand her.
The thinss that produced the greatest effect among us
her magnificent dction the play Of her countenanc her
carriage and gesture-al these passed over
nearly unpoticed
The only things which excited real applause were the
the strong passages passionate scenes where the step
becomes more animated, the gesture lively, the
voice leaves Its usual tones
So the whole of of the impre cations produced
monstrous effect and decided the effect Of the perfor
NANCE very brilliant success, very great without doubt
bu, would have twenty times greater twenty
more complete considering the talent and name OF her
who its object
after the piece which ended, not at the end some may
suppose but two thirds through the fourth act that s at
ther-"Ah, traitre" which does not rhyme with any
great things.
The scene of Sabine and Horace suppressed also
the fifth act as injurng the effect
The public to dc them justice did not encore anything
and they applauded Rachel as warmly as they could
when, being called out she led on the scene not
as one would suppose by her brother Horace by
brother Raphael
Probably because ii would not have been proper for
Camille 70 reappear giving her hand TO the man who has
Az you perceive, Mademoiselle Rachel always makes
u
great cherut de bataiue.
great deal has been written in relation to the failure
of Mile Rachels American tour: 1t was not failure,
however, so far the metropolis concerned On
the 4th she played Phedre the 9Th Adrienne Lecou
and she gives 81 900 FOR the widows and orphans of
the victims of the yellow fever at New Oreans on the
10th Marie Stuart the 18TH Adrienne again. 14th Les
Horaces 1eth Angelo; Goth Bajazet oath, Angelo; 25th
Reading the tabernacle 2sth Phadre 2sth Adrenne;
29th Andromaque; Oct 3d. Poyeucte; 5th Angelo sth,
Les Horace and Mile Rachel decaims the Marsei'ise
She played throughout this month nearly every
piUhss and oltha thA una rArU
bad, the receipts went under $4,000.
and averaged SO ooo She then went to Boston, played
denny of Music and at Nibo's Garden On the 18th No
vember Mdlle Rachel took her leave OF New York play
ing in Phedre and lie Moineau de Lesbie Thence to
Philadelphia where she played night, and that is her
last appearance but one on any stage Here Is tho
actors account OF it -
Fer the moment the best thing do, think is TO
go TO the Walnut street theatre.
Mdile. Rachel opens there this evening.
The pieces are
lie DEPT AND LES HoRAcrs
II is a hideous house, pitful theatre this Walnut
We cannot understand how so fine city should not
have something better They making arrangements,
we are told to build at great expense, house which will
be really splendid.
As we have no time to wait till that is finished we will
be content, for to night, with what we have.
We have to suffer for it, account OF the receipts,
which very fair not account Of the success which
is very great but on account of its being so frghduy
cold behind the scenes.
There is fire and thoroughly frozen. Every
Mdle Rachel who since that night the Metropolitan
has entirely recovered from her cough suffers
from the cold 70 night that the next day she is taken Sc
rousiy ill, and is obliged to take her bed.
From this moment until she started for Charleston she
does not leave Jones' Hotel where she stays with her
is fair say here that Rachel herself stated in Paris
last that she contracted her fatal cold in Boston
storms peculiar TO New neland as well az by the an.
poyances she suffered at The hands Of the journalists who
abused her because eS had quarrel with her brother
From Philadelphia Mile Rachel goes to Charleston,
where she able TO act in Adrenne lie Couvreur
night and that night December IL 1885, the great actress
left the stage never to return to it, She should have
made her last step the stage Of the Franchise,
rounded by the souvenirs of the great authors snd
Of the past and died within hail Of the Boulevards But
she acts for the last time in provincial town in
| foreign country, and dies IN miserable country
village
AZ for the pecuniary result Of Mile Raches enage-
ment here brought in nearly for thirty seven
Mile. Rachel remained at Havana until the spring or1s5s,
and then returned 70 France Here ends her professional
fsrer Of which we nave gwen ou, r. r sxec n
returned without Improvement In June last she came to
Paris very i'll. Her voice had almost besome naudibe,
and she received no one She went 70 Carnes
where she ordered 10 pass the winter Though for
MANY months was thought impossible she could re.
| for at the moment when II came; and thirty
Elk hours previous TO her death she had written
CT e % Of peg o h% 1 her e
DR.. Bergonnet, whom, In her letter, she styled
sdurtr, and who she really did then the OF de-
leaves fortune Of 100000 francs (s250 00o) 600 900
francs TO be divided amongst her sons, and the
naming 600 600 are parceed out between her family and
different small iesacies
She died in the Jewish faith Rabbi having came from
Nice 10 attend her in her last moments. French paper
says that her agony long and cruel but was borne with
the greatest forude. The OF the death Of the great
actress created much sensation in Paris and the Theatre
Francois closed on the night OF the It'll IN respect 10 her
memory. The body, which had been embalmed,
pec'ed on that evening In Paris and the funeral to
take place the next day.
n rhara nd pvivaf ia
oMte Rachel much might be written. But her
were more the result Of bad examples In her early fc
and must be redeemed by her genius She leaves two
three children, and correspondent has the following In
| relation 10 ono Of them
Ra0bes eldest SON. boy Of abou, H. whose father Is
Count walewsk being educated a, Geneva and knew
thing OF his mother death. friend Of was request
ed 70 the Minister for Foreign Affairs upon this subject
and inquire from him II be did not think fitting that the
boy should be present the funeral which place
tomorrow; but Count Wales sk said he did deem
by any necessary and that would only cause the
child a sad and disagreeabe Impression Most people
imagine tina, the real fact that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs does not choose that the crowd Raches funeral
should say "There that young lad, who s chief mourner
and Rachcls son, h the also OF NJ walewsk the FIRST
minister Of the empire" Besides this too many would
have added "Ten twelve years back that boys father
pcrsccuted Rachel the actress become his wife and
what then termed her good sense and her friends
who surrounded and besougb her not to think Of such
thing alone prevented the marriage All this might
not be particularly iaerng 70 " walewsk just now,
the young Alexander Napoleon viscount waewski (or
he perfectly acknowedred) is left IN bis school at e
and kept from the public eye
Mile Rachel had many offers Of marriage, but refused
them all kpropos 30 that subject reproduce the fol-
loving curious letter, which published In the HERALD
April s, 1856
The following letter appears in the Independence BEIGE
II replies 10 the that she about tue
stage for matrimony but u not our Contemporary
says Intended for publication" The great ha2siiennc
writes
Ihave heard many clever people say that II s better 10
he mareated by the press than 10 submit IL silence
and its neglect have then 10 thank you more for
the notice which you have given me in the - But
why, my dear friend, have you occupied yourself for
such length Of time With nothing but ances Of marriage
which you have Invented in order 10 blame and why
pect again 10 day of this nultyi have two sons
whom adore have thirty years upon my certificate
81 birth have cry upon my eountensnceI will say
how many rcs Eighteen years Of passionate TRADES
upon The theatres hsiy Journeys the Of every
land Moscow winters Waterloo treacheres the per6dous
sea; the Migrate iand-behoid things which soon age
| little bit Of woman like met But God protects the
brave and he seems 10 have created expressly for
little corner unknown 10 all the gcographers, where
forget my atgues, my pains, my premature old age
and this. though fling viannns canal The