Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-03
MARIE ROzE,
some Facts Not Generally Known
Concerning the Beautiful PrimH
DnnHn

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DONNA
The enthusiasm awakened by Marie
foze on the occasion Of her recent up.
peeranoe In concert here was to hc
expected, because of the highly favorable
impression created by her In her appear
ance here on two previous occasions in
concert. She is one of the fayorites with
those who enjoy good singing, and the
warmth with which she has been greeted
has made the lady reciprooste the feeling
with which she is regarded here She i
not favorite here only, however, by nny
means, but receives warm welcome every
where. The New York Herald Of Friday,
abiding to the coming appearance of the
Strakosch & Eess English Opera Company
at tbs Fifth Avenue Theatre, in that city
next week, says:
Among the artists is Nine Marie Roze, who
having achieved many triumphs here and
elsewhere as prima donna, will be again
warmly welcomed as the interpreter of the
leading roles of several of the great masters.
Popular as she has become in other cities on
both sides of the Atlantic, there is probably
no place where she is more appreciated,
srtisticaily, and socially, than in this the
metropolis of America.
ouA Will hte, tittTbtuTt,
fore, that they are not OF all singular III
their regard for the charming prima
donna, and they will be glad to know that
they will soou have an opportunity 10 see
her here in opera.
The present interest here in the lady
will doubtless rpako the readers of EVERY
EVENING welcome SONS facts concern
lag her history, which the writer
believes have never appeared ia print on
this side of the Atlantic
Mrs. Marie Roze Mapleson is direct
iineai descendant fiom Count Rooi Won
der Hasg, who euiisrated in the twelfth
century 10 France and entered the service
of King Henry The name Roos Won der
Bang eventually became Roze de la Kaye,
which is of course the French for Res
from the Hague. Marie Roz9 comes,
therefore, from Dutch stock, and has in
her even temper aud many other notable
characteristics evidence of less metenrial
hood than that of the French
She is really the last of her line, being
the only daughter of the only daughter
OF the last male Representative
of the family. who married a
lawyer named Ponson Her baptismel
name was therefore really Marie Ponson.
While she was still an infant her father
was called to Batavia On some professional
business and his wife accompanied him,
leaving Marie with her grandparents. MIR
and Mrs. Ponson were both stricken down
with fever and died.
Ire little child grew up in the house OF
her Grandfather Roze, to whom she ap-
peared daughter rather thau grand
daughter, and she WAS universally calico
Marie Res, 80 that when she grew NJ shf
adopted the name.
Her grandfather was lawyer aud TIE
famous composer -Auber was oue Of hi,
clients. One day when the latter was
diaiug with Mr., Roze li.tie Marie was
brought in after dinner and sang The
composer was so charmed with Ltr voice
that he urged her to study music aud "a
his suggestion she entered this eonserva
toire of which he was then the director
Under his mastery tuition she pursued
her studies with such succesa that 80. tool
he first priz & for both singing aud nutin-
aud obtained the latter Ia eotnpetitie.
with Hctors WHO were not singte. N,
late Emperor Napuieon HI pttsgnGli4
handed her the medals she had wo..
She made her isst Appearance IN Peri
in The Opera Com que III 1867 IN III opert
written expressly for her by her old muster,
then aged 50 fas opera WAS 'r1n FRS
Day OF Happiness" aud It ran Tor t~c
ars, afie which Marie Roze went to the
Grand Opera, continuing to sing there TIL
he siege of Paris put ~ end 10 all pleasur,
III the gay capital. T."
She went to Brussels where Col james
II. Mapleson, director of Her A5aj sty