The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-24
JANAuscHEcK.

This favorite tragedienne appears al
Harper's Theatre on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. Jan. 26 and n. and
those who enjoy ine acting will be given az
opportunity to sse this talented actress at
her best. The company supporting JAM
auscheck IL first class-considered by com
potent critics the best With any company
on the road. Our readers, most of them,
are familiar with Janauscheck and we
need not say that she is a tavoritc. When
at Houston, Texas, lately, she won golden
opinions from the press of that city. and
from several criticisms we select the fol.
lowing from the leading paper of that
city:
1t speaks volumes for tho culture and
true intelligence of our city that so large
and brilliant an audience bled at
PILOTS opera house last evening to wit.
ness Nine. Jauauscheks re-eEtree to
Houston. And yet i. was no more a
compliment or recognition OF high art than
was deserved for the play. The leading
actress and her surrounding company
we're Of unusual merit. Schiiier's great
work-a classic ia dramatic literature
was the presentation, liz is somewhat
singular that the greatest critics OF the
poets of the Elizabethan era. the finest
| illustrators ot the works OF Shakespeare
and the hest of historical dramatists (of
Eng,IsL history, Shakespeare alone ex-
eented. having been Germans, Goethe,
LEASING. Schiller. Retsch and many others
are names whose crowns of glory carry
more than one lest grown from English
soil. That Schiller's Mary Stuart" lie a
noble play, no one who saw 1T last evening
will deny. Equally we think, no one will
deny that it was grandly played.
| Perhaps it does not offer the great
es, scone for Nine. Janauschek's powers,
except in the grand scene of act Ill, but
its rvthmic beauty, its force of uttsrauce,
its fertility of depletion of epochs In his
tory. in which the world will never lose
Interest. All these are merits it possesses
10 speculative degree. But we need not
dwell here upon the drama itself: it is too
well known TO evsry cultivated reader to
need any extended comment Remem bar-
ing the time OF Mary Stuart's life, with
which the play deals, no more fitting rep
lresentatiye Of the title role than Japsu-
schek has or is likely 10 visit our city. She
embedies the role. Her strong, vital
earnestness, her ability to depict the
lerOlC, DOLu IN ueSu duu al tHQuFa0ee, are
Enthusiastically called forth in the play, and
/ again and again applause rang through
the house as rounded sentences fell from
her lips The superb scene of the meet
ing of Mary and Elizabeth 10 Foth-
eringay park, was the acme Of fine
aud exciting acting and defamation.
The company. in support of Janau-
schek, filled their roles well and most ac.
ceptably. Miss Lizzie Cresse was power
full and impressive as Elizabeth. Nc
part in the play was more iutelfigeutly and
wnrtbily performed than that of HonzoI
Kennedy, by Mrs Jas L Carhart, Msaes
Fletcher and Gordon fulfilled the httls
required of them well. All the gentlemen
met their assignments nicely. the degree
of merit bsing proportionste may be tt
tho degree Of rtsuisition. Mr.. Cotter a,
Mortimer, Mr.. Vessels as Dudley MIR
Taylor az Cecil Messrs Carhart. Fisher
Hunter. Conor, Smith aud Macdonald al
doing well.
To night Nine. ..Janausohek sappears il
N odern role, or. rather. dual modern
role, 10 the dramatization Of DickeDt
BLEAK House playing the two widel,
differing paris OF Lady Dedlock; and Hor
tense, two parts in which she has bee,
pronounced exceedingly strong, and W.
hope TO see another fne audience present
Reserved seats can be secured q
Bowlby's music store. under tie Harper
House, without extra charge