The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-09
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The seebach season.


go soon 10 begin at the French theatre, and
about Marie Seebach, who is the principal at
traction in 1t, and am perfectly willing to pour
Into your ears, in relation thereto, all that has
been poured into mine. The season will com
prise twenty-four representations, and will com
mepce somewhere between the 14th and 20th of
the present month.
The artists who are to support Madame
Seebach consist of Mathde Veneta, the lead
ing actress of the Hoffburg Imperial Theatre,
Vienna; Antoinette Bissinger, leading actress of
his Majesty Theatre of Stuttgart Elvira Bar
deDhauer, of the Stadt Theatre of Amsterdam;
Madame Heigel, a celebrated comedy ''old-
woman" from the Stadt Theatre of Hamburg;
Herr Won Ernest, one of the most distinguished
actors of Breslau; Hermann Harry, character
actor" and ''heavy man." from the Landes
Theatre. Prague; Edward Devereux, leading
juvenile, from the Royal Theatre of Munich;
Herr Fincke, comedian, from the Theatre of
the Wieden, Vienna; Herr Mueller, leading
comedian, from the Stadt Theatre, Frankfort;
and Herr Brnckmann, from the Royal Theatre
of Berlin. The plays of which Seebach's re-
pertOire is composed are not less than twenty
seven in number. Their names and authors are
as follows
FatI { and C7auigo, by Goethe; Marie Stuart EJ-
mont The Mad n Orleans Lore and IltripUe, ricsco,
Don Carlos The B ide of Messtno, ana William Tel,
by LtssnG; Romeo and Juliet Tuning Of tie Sh,eu,
Hamlet, Winters Tat, Macbeth, and OtheLlo, by
ldgdnhne, hy Hebbel; Adrienne LecouUrsur, by Le-
RUuve; NGthHde, by Benedic; Eh5dbeth, 10y G.aCo-
nett; Gresiid'&:hy Hahn; Paient and 4 Ctp # Tea,
by Scribe; Phddre, hy Racine; and The Fdjricdn',
by Emile Devrient The entire United States Sc ason
is limited TO one hundred nights, one-fourth of
which at least will be given to New York.
Madame Seebach is thirty.three years old,
having been born on the 2ith of February, 1897
at Riga, in Russia. Her pa aud ma were Ger
man opera singers Her pa, who died six years
ago at Cologne, was the son of physician
turned actor Her ma was the daughter of Herr
Blumauer, an author of local repute, and was
also the intimate friend of Sontag. Madame
Seebach has an only sister, five or sx years her
junior, and named Wlhemina. The mother
of these children died when they were very
young, and their earliest years were spent amid
poverty and care. When Marie was scarcely
more than a child she abandoned singing, which
fhe bad intended to practise as a profession,
and her father, who engaged as stage
manager at NJ. Ferdinand Roeders theatre at
Nuremberg, got her situation at the same
place of entertainment where he was engaged.
For little while she acted for nothing for the
sake of showing what che could do; but, after
brief probation, NJ. Roeder, catching some
glimpses of The merit in her, engaged her OF
the magnificent salary of two dollars in
gold per month. This was not much
but it enabled her, in time, to buy black vel
vet dress (for six dollars!) in which she very
likely commenced practising those tragic parts
in which she subsequently became so famous.
Her first pronounced success was in the part of
"Juliet," and the triumph so stimulated her
that she left Nuremberg and secured a better
situation at the the atre in Cassel where, how
ever, fhe was not permitted to appear in any
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much to the cbagrin of the manager, who pro-
phesied that she would iniure her prospects
forever, she left Cassel and proceeded to Ham,
burg, where Doctor Maurice, a we-known
manager, engaged her to appear as 'Margue-
rite" in Goethes Faust. Her debut happened
just one month after her having left Cassel, and
was the beginning of dramatic success which
has flowed evenly on ever since.
At Hamburg, however, so far from relaxing
in her habits of study, she placed herself under
the tuition Of the celebrated actor Heindrick
Marr and the celebrated dramatic preceptress,
Mrs. De Glossbrenner. After while Herr
Henry Laube, of the Hofburg Theatre of
Vienna, heard of the wonderful things she was
accomplishing and engaged her for his house.
On April 8, 1854, she appeared at Vienna as
''Mathilde, and there she remained for two
years. She cut away al the conventionalities
lousiy by Anschutz, Laroche, Wagner, Fichtner
Lowe, and Julie Rettich, who were We .eraus in
acting, and formed a school of her own. After
The two years were over she spent long time
in fulfilling engagements as travelling star at
Prague, Graz, Pesth, Leipsic, Coburg- Gotha
etc. In April, 1857, she went to the
Royal Theatre of Hanover, where she re-
manned nine years. In 1866 Hanover was
swallowed up by Prussia, and since then
Madame Seebach has been starring through
Germany. l do not say that her success here
will be equal to that of Ristori, but / have no
doubt that it will be very great. The Grau and
the Strakosch manner of working stars up are
very different. Nilsson, for instance who is
managed by Strakosch, has had an amount OF
putting bestowed upon her that was perfectly
naUseating. Grau has gone to work in more
modest but really more efficient and artistic
manner. OF course, Philadelphia is one of the
first places that Seebach will visit after her
first engagement in New York is completed;
and thought that. in view of that event being
not very distant, few facts relative to the
great actress would not be uninteresting. Her
husbands name is Niemann. He is tenor
singer, with BrignOlian voice. He does not,
believe, accompany her, bat prefers travelling
on his own hook. in pursuit of the pleasures and
emoluments of the operate profession.
Ar Ran.