Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-24

JANAUSCHEK.-TO-morTOw the box
office of the theater will be opened for
the sale of seats for the week of legiti-
mate drama which we are promised un-
der the auspices of the renowned TRACE
dienne, Janauschek, who comes to us
preceded by fame, telling with trum-
pet-tongue of long series of successes
in Europe and America, achieved, too,
in the two leading languages of the
wOrld@GeTman and English. Janau-
schek is a Bohemian by birth, a scion of
a strange and mysterious race-the
Chech-which, with its music aud mel
ody, has long been misunderstood by
the world. Born in Prague, and trained
amid a people noted for their intellectu-
al Endorsements and attachments in mu-
sic, oratory and the arts generally, she
was early in life fired with an am
bition for the stage, Of which she has
become one of the most nlustrious orna-
ments. The language of her people,
limited In its scope, not admitting OF the
opportunity for the advancement of
which she felt herself capable, she stud
led German, and making herself mis-
tress of all its complexities, she made
her debut in I849, at Frankfort, and be-
fore q highly cultivated and critical
audience, in Gethe's Rhigen5eSR IduTis,
on the birthday of the immortal bard.
Her success was beyond her vaguest
dreams. She assembled at once to the
highest place on the German stage, and
is regarded by that people as
without a rival. To this,
her first triumph, she has added many
others. She has performed at Berlin,
Vienna, Dresden, Munich, st. Peters
burg, Weimar, Meinengen, and in all
the principal cities of the United States.
She was as usual the recipient of special
marks of the esteem of European royal
ty, a coronet of diamonds from the EN-
peror Of Russia being among the con-
spicuous ornaments which lend their
splendors to her costumes, always fault
less. But the most notable of all the
honors heaped upon her, and the one
upon which she perhaps prides herself
most, was the issuance by the Republi-
can Schutzenfest of the free city of
Frankfort of a coin bearing the head of
the great artistic and long known as the
Janauschek thaler. Her list of plays
embraces Ihigenie "a Tduris, PhedTe,
MedeG, De6Ora, Marie Stuart, Adri-
enne LecouVeu, Cheney VOID "a
dramatiZation from Dickens's "Bleak
House,; also, S~hakspeare's Winters
Tale, in which she plays the
character of "Hermione.V Her first
visit to the United States was a tri-
umphant success, although limited to
the German-speaking people. 1t deter
mined her 70 Try English. To say is to
do with ~Janauschek. She gave her
self up to study, and the result
has more than satisfied her friends.
She delivers herself with all the
ase of one sehoOled from infancy in
the English tongue and without losing q
particle of the artistic perfection in prose
and gesture which distinguishes her,
and which lifted Ristori and Rachle
above the best artists of Italy and
France, and secured them pre-eminence
throughout the world. The critic of the
New York Evening Post who had many
opportunities of seeing Janauschek,
thus describes her: leo9 ~
Janauschek's face is rendered attractive
by its expressiyeness and fnfeilectuai chsrac-
ter. She is large, With q lnely-formed mas
stve throat and shoulders, indicating great
physical strength; there is q goddess-1lke
when she first comes Upon the stage, I
is impressive and distracted. She does not
seem 70 see her audience, and mAkes no effort I
70 1H VII lts ay9T; q makes no points and
Portraits of Janauschek now fill most
Of the store windows on Main street. A
careful study OF these will verify the
and the absence of gevgaw on
ornament, considered by vulgar or lily.
balanced minds indispensable ~tosicoess-
fal portraiture, will strike all beholden
significant of the sterling independ