The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-22
OBITUARY.
RInd,IIa Schneider

at Bordeaux, France, about the year 1886, and
displayed an inclination for the stage at very
early age. She made her first appearance when
only fifteen years old, at the Athen@um in her
native city, and was received with hattering
applause. An old professor of music named
Schaffner took her in charge, and trained her in
singing, and then she set out on her professional
career. Her first stopping place was Agen,
where she remained three years, playing second
ary parts at theatre of no great pretensions.
She then determined to try her fortunes at the
gay capital of France, and on her arrival sought
an engagement at the Varieties. Although her
provincial success had been great, she had
scarcely been heard of at Paris, and her applica-
tion was unsuccessful. She obtained place,
however, in the troupe of the Bouffes Parisiens
which was formed about that time and was not
long in making herself popular in parts which
afforded an opportunity for the display of a
charming sperson and really fine talent for
dashing comedy and rollcking song. Having
proved her powers of attraction for French
amusement-seekers, an engagement was offered
her at the Varieties, and she made her
debut on its somewhat famous stage on the 10Th
of September, 1856 in lie Chien de Gdrde.s Her
popularity increased rapidly, and in August
1865, she made her first appearance at the Paais
Royal, where she quite took the town in La
Bedute dU DidbIe, DGnde et sd BOntse and other
pieces of o similar character. She found style
of performance exactly suited to her talents in
the now celebrated works of Offenbach, and in
La Belle Helene and La Grdnde DucheSSe de
Gerolstein she created decided furore, which
did much to give opera bouffe that
feverish popularity which sent 1t across
the ocean, to afford Americans a taste
entertainments of the Partisan stage. She APP
peared in La Belle Helene at the Varieties in
1864, and found ample scope for the free and
dashing action for which she had become noted
and the bewitching and seductive song and
dance which seemed to exert over the public
mind and taste something of the influence of the
alluring strains of she ancient sirens. 1t was
in the Grdnde DuchesSe, however, that she
reached the climax of her power in captivating
the popular fancy, and won for herself world
wide celebrity. She performed in this piece at
Paris throughout the Exposition of 1861 and was
one OF the strong attractions at the capital of the
French Empire on that memorable occasion,
captivating princes and aristocrats, as well as
the profGnunl Uulgus, with the witcheries of her
performances. 1t is stated as q historical fact
that the Gar of Russia and his two sons hur-
ried off to see her on the first night of their
arrival, scarcely waiting to pay their respects to
their imperial host. Afterward she visited the
other European capitals, whittier her fame had
of course preceded her. making her appearance
in London in July, 1868, where she was greeted
with the same frantic demonstrations of de-
light which she had called forth from the vola-
tile French.
She performed there also in the summer of
1869; and it was on this occasion that she
narrowly escaped serious injury from fire
which occurred on the stage during perform
ance of Orphe dltr Enters. In July, 1870 she
again began an engagement at the Princess
Theatre, which proved more successful, if
possible, than the previous seasons. 1t was said
that negotiations were on foot to bring her to
this country, but her untimely death will disap-
point thousands here who would have
been glad to have seen the
amus sement of the day in its most artistic
form. Her charms of person, as well as
her undoubted talent singer and actress,
have been descanted on in glowing terms, and
she had occasioned no little scandal in families
even of royal rack. In 1865 considerable noise
was made in the Paris papers over the legacy of
| $4,000 francs left to her by the Due de Cade-
| rouse Grammont, and on her visits to London
there were whisperings of too frequent appear
ances in the green room of the heir apparent of
| the throne Whatever her faults may have been,
| Schneider was a hard student of the art which
| she had chosen, and a careful and conscientious
| actress. Some of Offenbach's most popular
| pieces were written for her, and with especial
reference TO her talents. Among these are La
Belle Helene, Bdrbe Bleue La Grande Dl-
| clesSe, and La PerictOle. Although her action
was always free, and indeed the artistic express
sion of the mostsensuous charms of fhuman nature.
| both physical and emotional, yet she never ap-
| peared coarse or vulgar. Her avowed motto in
studying for success was:-"CdndiHe tdnt qu'On
| UOudrd; nlGu0dlS genre, fdnldtS."
Maria CIemuu, the Mother-in-Inw of Edgar A.
On the 10th instant occurred, in Baltimore,
the death of Mrs. Maria Clemm the aunt,
mother-in-law, and never-failing friend of
| Edgar A. Poe. Mrs. GLENN was born in Bati-
more on the 18th of March, 1890. Her family
was one of the Oldest and most distinguished in
termaster- General of the Old Maryland line
during the Revolution, and the intimate friend
of Washington, Lafayette, and the lead
ing men OF the time. Ia 1885, while
editing The Southern Literary Messenger,
Edgar A. Poe married his cousin, Virginia
GLENN, lovely and beautiful girl, whose me-
mory he embalmed in "The Raven" She was
the "lost Lenore" of that extraordinary poem
| From the time of Poes marriage to her daugh-
ter Mrs. GLENN adopted him as her son. and
never had son a more devoted mother. To have
won and kept the love of such a woman through
all the vicissitudes of such a career as Poe's
shows more forcibly than words can tell that
the innate goodness of the poet was not lost
even In the midst of wasted genius, unparalleled
misfoTtunes and utter misery.
To her Poe wrote the sonnet ITO My Mother,
in which he testifes to her care and devotion by
saying that she had been ''more than mother
to him. After the poets death, on the 7th OF
October, lS49, Mrs. GLENN resided with different
friends in New York and Virginia. until five OF
six years since, when she was received into the
| Church Home in Baltimore, a charitable institu.
tion under the management of the Episcopal
Church, and there she died on the 10th instant
in the eghty-frst year of her age. At her owI
request she WAS buried by the side of hel
''darliDg Eddie" in Westminster Churchyard
corner of Fayette and Green streets, Baltimore
Admiral POrter's Gas Bill.
Whatever may be the sentiments of the rest o.
his cOuntrymen, there is at least one man IL
Washington who cannot complain that the
guests of our newly constituted Admiral are no
received with ceTemoniouE honor. On reception
day 1t is currently reported that Chinese ser
want in the employ of Admiral Porter, having Il
attend the door, estimated the rank and conse
quence OF the visitors, according to Chinest
custom, by the size of their visiting cards. D
course the one-inch.by-two bits of cardboard
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