The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-14
Jauauschek.

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There is fascination in the career of
those who have passed from one extreme {
to another. 1t is always fascination ting
ed with deep interest when the career is
that of a woman. We are all of us ready in
some degree to believe that if a man has
dragged himself up, The has only done that
which man ought to do. But If a wo-
man rises by force Of will, Of talent, indus
try, genius. or even accident, from low
sphere of life to become powerful. or
wealthy, or famous, we look upon her with
feeling that savors more of worship than
we would like to own to ourselves. In
deed, with us here it is sometimes carried
to lengths that are ridiculous. Still, il we
err in this excess, it is error on the right
side.
The promised appearance of Janaus-
check in English tragedy gives rise just
now to these thoughts. Right or wrong,
the mind will always connect Janauscheck
and Rachel, somewhat as it does kemble
and Kean. True, Janauscheck and Ra-
chel never we're rivals, for the wonderful
career of the latter was over when the
former rose. Still, to the mind they are
rivals. The mention of one will always
suggest the other. The very contrast of
their lives strengthen the association
Rachel, the thin, large-eyed ballad singer,
of the Rue du-Helder, being TRANSPORTED
as it were to a queen whose kingdom has
, become shadowy border-land between
|, Hellenic and Modern Ar:-Rachel restor-
ing more than the traditional splendors of
the stage-stern, jealous and exacting-
recalls the story of life which sounds ike
one of those tales the turbaned traveller
tells in the cafes of Cairo, and seems to re-
duire surrounding of divans and dis
tant view Of cupolas and minarets as q
proper framework to give it reality.
Janauscheck, the strong, the rebellious
, scrf in the ''wilds of Bohemia" suddenly
stepping forth as the admired and beloved
!, artist Of the German nation, craving heI
name with firm hand in the annals o.
her country's art beside that of Emile
: Deyrient, and by force of will and genius
rising from the lower plane of servitude to
!, the highest pinnacle of fame then, like
= Rachel, crossing the ocean to win the ad
a miration of new world, offers to the m!nt
a life whose story of toll and resolution
might afford Emerson the subject of Essa!
on Representative Women of the Moderl
World
Whatever, too, the difference of thei
g genius, the difference of their character i
E, no less present to the mind when either i
a mentioned. Born and bred in Paris, Ra
chel with all her genius, saw not tina
o even genius of the highest order to wi
* love must be welded to character w
" sorrow at the inner life of the great Frenc
great Bohemian. Rachel could see il
America but new field wherein to glea
1t admiration and money. Janauscheck say
" past therefore made it to her, even as t
: the Irish emigrant, the Land of Promise
= :, The smiles of courts and the approbatio
W still they failed to satisfy. She longe
n for the approval that does not humilat
.. with accompanying condescension eve
u while it praises. She got that from Amel
ID lea, and an American she became. BIZ
or even this would not ill her restless era,
ne ing She must not only be a free woman
understood in the language of her adopte
a. country. The old spirit of determinatio
be came to her aid, and now she comes b.
d fore us American in language as in spiri
o. with the record of her past as truly Amel
= lean as that of any ''selfmade man
III among US.
ad America taught Rachel nothing, Sh
he returned to Europe to intrigue for
~, wealthy marriage, to scheme against ar
other woman, and lived for the disgracin
eh love of married man.
Oh At every step these two women suggel
tc each other by contrast.
No. Janauschek, destined as she is to leat
" perhaps in some degree to reform oil
la' stage now that she speaks our languag
'er will not obiterate the memory of Rach
ow thereon. Men will recall with wonder Il
Of facinations of face that was in itself a
epic, and women will remember with
" shudder how they shrank and tainted b
he fore the spell of Phedre and Adrienn
1T. The past is Rachel's and she W;
M of it as ever artist was. II
present is Jauauscheck's - the firm
healthy present and in it we hail this gran
worker in our own tongue as the adopte
re tragedienne of America-Harper's Week.