The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-23
Correspondents
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent

| from our Special Correspondent.
NEw YORK. MARCH,. 13lS77
Camille Is dead, Long live CamilI,..
Yesterday saw the burial from the Lit
tie hurch Around the Corner OF the
| woman whose name has been so long
identified with The cOnsumpiive heroine
Of Dumas novel. Yet for all the pecuI-
lar rendering ofthe part by Miss Heron.
she never raised it above certain h-av-
mess and grOssness, which. a though it
dazzled many in her early davs still was
not even fair rendering of the charac-
ter as it was conceived by Dumas.
There was poetic beauty and pathos in
Marie Duplessis, which Matilda Heron,
in her rather heavy rendering, never
attained: therefore, although the woman
who really gave Camille to the public, is
dead she has left behind her in the per-
son Of Clara Morris, woman who has
idealized the heroine, and who portrays
1t with all the pre- Raphaelistic manner,
which makes Miss Morris as perfect a
representative of dramatic art, in that
school, As Millair or Holman Hunt are
in their special and peculiar treatment
of life on canvass.
So, although many have sympa;hized
with the dead actre s, still. one cannot
feel that the Dame aux Caaellias'' is
dead, or, if she is. that there has arisen
in her place, a rruer, more poetical. pur-
erkdealizatiOn of The character. than the
strong. robust. but slightly tainted i'm
personation Of Miss Heron. In witness
ing her Camille" one could not help
but feel that.
The trail of the serpent was over it
all"
Miss Morris produces a far different
feeling. and The sin is lost in warmest
sympa hy and pity for the sinner.
The poor woman has gone 10 her long
home, however, while coffin and chancel
literally were almost hidden by spOtle=s
Iamellias \ fortune was brou-h a.
tribute 10 the grave Of one, who had
sometimes in life wanted bread. Her
daughter. Blu has all he elements
Of an actress. and may be grea.er than
her mother. Her pl 'ying in Monsieur
llphonse" and again in Miss Mutton.
has shown that she is thoroughly ac
quainted with stage business and also
hat she has talent an probably genius.
She will find many friends bo.h in and
out Of the profession. and al hOugh 1T !
now al the Is kward age when girlhOod |
is about closing and wOmanhOnd not Yet !
taking It's place. she doe not appear to
very good advantage, that is a mater
she will hourly Outgrow.
Of course you have heard before this. !
how near We came TO having another 4
fearful catastrophe, last week, in the
panic offs Francis Xavier's Church IL
Is generally known here as the Jesuits
church. and as he preaching Is usually
exceedingly goodit attracts great crowds
am ng whom are 10 be found many
Pro,es,ants, as we as The faithful. The
flinting Of a woman G childs cry Of
Fire produced panic, with the result
of seven killed and many injured. But
had ii really been IRE tina: had caused
the alarm. with It's volumes Of smoke to
blind and suffocate. the Brookly hOlO-
caust would have sunk into insigniii-
canoe in comparison TO the loss Of life
that must have occurred. From the
closely packed galleries, egress was only |
as it is in most of our chur
ches, by a winding, narrow staircase.
Those in front are crowded by those be-
hind, until some one Is sure TO fall, and
down then they goliks pile Of bricks,
until wedge occurs and nothing can
save them.
Our theatres have been pretty well
Overhauled, but this will draw attention
TO our churches. Certainly, aside from
those belonging to the Catholic, there is ;
little danger, because the others are
rarely over full Beechers. and occa- ,
,ionally Talmadges are exceptions, but
the scattering few in the galleries, and