The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-02-24

Fanny Kemble has given tive courses o.
Shakespeare readings, some thirty in all,
the last of which is just closing. Her au;
dieness have been invariably full. No
pressure in the money market has beer
able to create any perceptible lack Of
pressure IN the threngs drawn to her ar
tistio presepoe-throngs too of the best
intellect of tho city-the students, the
thinkers, the scholars, the professional
men, and the women of rare refinement
and culture. No finer opportunity could
be desired By the celebrity.hun.e to ses,
at one glance, the selectest possible gath
eriBg of the afauent aud Intellectual class
of this city. A fairer, rarer scene has
seldom been witnessed anywhere, than
one of these evenings with Mr.. Kemble
and Shakespeare, with the brilliant gas
light falling upon the radient faces and
fne,cut features Of her THOUSAND audi
tors. And what, night after night, has
brought this rare assembly together? To
outward eyes the attraction is but a sim
pie woman and plain volume of Shaks-
peare but the secret is, she is a woman
of genius. The two srs brought together,
and the results, like the collision of fiut
and steel, are sparks of genius, which
thrill and electrify all hearts. She has
wonderful mobility of feature, graes and
rapidity of action, and a voice trained TO
every variety of meditation and express
sion. The result is, she, is herself the
mirror which she holds up to Shakespeare,
with as much effect as Shakspeare's ge-
MUS Hheld the mirror up to nature
Mrs. Kemble and her SUCCESS ought to
be a suggestive intimation to those young
ladies of talent who are pining for q post
lion aud a sphere. Her art is . fortune
to her, both in social and the money
sense; and yet her capital is not mssey,
but simply a severely-tfained voice and a
volume of Shakespeare. Patience, train
ing, and %sulture will supply the one. to
any ambitious aspirant d~s,erninea to &C.
qairs it, and a dollar or two will buy the
other. There are a thousand young la
dies in these States who have a natu, al
vocal and initiative basis which if sub
mittsd to drill and the polish and practice
Of study, might equal or excel even the
wonderful art of Mrs. Kemble; and then
there ars millions of pstrons who delight
to appreciate and reward any rendering of
an author that comes heme to tho intel
leet and touches the heart. The ruqeisits
training fer such a p%oAition is not difdculs,
especially with those in whom the faculty
and passisn for it are hereditary, and there
are raauy such. The eye aud every mus
Gle of the face can be taught every varie-
~ of expression, can be trained to sinur
late any passion or emotion. SO the
voice too eau be taught every variety Of
expression, can be trained to nearly doub-
lie its natural compass, can be endowed
by culture with almost perfect parity,
strength, and hexibiIity; and grace Of
aannsr, ease of carriage, and elegance of
can be acquired. This Is all
capital cut of which noteuly COL
dsn opiuions but golden purses mky be
won. More than one thousand ticksss,5 ct
a dollar each, must have been sold at
every Que of Mrs. Ksmble's readings.-
One thOusand dollars DAY, or thirty
dollars laid snugly away in her
within two mouths, is not . bad
response to her own inimitsble rendering
of honest lagos injuuotisn-"Pat monsy
in Thy purse ~ Thirty thousand d%sllsrs
Think Of that, young ladies'. Aud she a
woman toe Think also of that, aud fret
souls to desolatien no Aers on ac-
Of ne sphere, no position. nothing
o wear and go and be Flora MoFiia-
lsys no more
Speaking of nothing to wear reminds
of tho efoItstks Balmoral skirts, or
he sRed Petticoat," as the yulg lr news
win have it. 1t is a WOODEN gar
nsnt deeply red for a ground color with
black stripes. to which some wag purposes
add the stars. 1t is to be worn over a
loop. and the dress draped over it is to
% looped up five or six inches from tbs
'otten Ateach side, SO as to discontinue
.he present thauklsss business of sweeping
streets, and at the same Time display
he fact that there is a fashionable nub-
If it didn't crop out somewhere
t would be useless for fashion, any more
han beauty, to be more than s~arface deeps !
fhe fsshionabIes, however, seem to be
shy of the kirtlsd style. In all J
ny meanderiugs and peepings up and j
Town Broadway, 1 have as yet been able ]
o get a glimpse of mary red"-or 'lesst-
only red cheeks aud lips, which 1 ;
must confess 1 Lad rather see at any time; {
nd that p%urhaps may account for my OBJ
uscabion and failure to discover the 9th, !
II red. \
The wcstherl All, well-its praise :
ias bsen in e~Eerybody's mouths. Hith-
rto, for the whole season, there has been