Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-05
Mile. Feyghiae and Her Adventurous

As l discovered Mile Feyghine before
| che was known to the h1bitues of the Fran
Gals, or, indeed, to any one else here, says the
Paris correspondent of the London Truth
watched her theatrical career with deep
interest and latterly with sorrow. There is a
| good deal in the story of her brief life which
might be useful 10 young ladies who imagine
they can win celebrity and fortune on the
French stage without having been early
lnoculated with vice, or brought up from
childhood TO the theatrical profession. Mile.
teyshine was not precisely an ingenHe when
she came to Paris. But she was honest,
well mentioned, and her moral health was
sound. She was naturally borne on toward
what is heroic, and could have gone
through ire and water for a cause
she had espoused or to attain an object
on which her heart was set. She had 4
frame that would stand any amount of rack
citing. Ii che had had the luck to have
fallen in love with an upright, struggling
and cultivated man who reciprocated her
passion, her life would have been one of
quiet greatness and cheerful everyday mar
tyrdom. L never saw beautiful feminine
wait less suited to the deulimonde into which
she was nearly drawn, than the ill-starred
Mile. Feyghine. She was very truthful,
very proud; was utterly devoid of fResse, and
bad no inclin alton for vice. Il loathe The
people around me and all their ways" she
said few weeks before her death. "Noth-
ing smells bad to their noses" Although
she dressed with taste she was too boyish TO
be a coquetie. Nor could she realize 10 VIII at
extent she was gifted with beauty and, what
is more than beauty, fascination. So far from
trying to eat up the fortune of tie young duke
with whom she get up as housekeeper it was
misery for her to incur debt that he was ex-
pected to pay. AT the Francois she was
laughed at because she went there so often in
the same crimson dress and broad brimmed
hat. "Elc SET uoUee au sang de 69uf," re-
marked wiki sneer one OF the fair societaires
in the green-room. She threw aside the cos
tune for another in cheap blue stuff, which
she bought ready M ade. The sister actresses
of Mile. Feyghine thought that having
taken the false step she was fool not TO de-
rive the utmost possible benefit from her
social outlawry. II does not do to be romstc |
on the French stage.
Mile. Feyghine had long memory for |
kindaess shown to her. The hotel, or rather |
the little square box of house in which che |
lived at Passy, was not bought to be pre- |
scented 10 it's fair tenant, but was merely |
hired. 1t was furnished in a cheap, though |
pretty manner. The English Cook-conduct-
ed excursionists aud ladies of British evan
gelizing missions who went to gaze on the
corpse of the beautiful suicide, were struck
with the absence OF luxury in the general
arrangements of her house. Although in
blood a Jewess, Mile. Feyghine had no
Pswnhrokiug instinct, and was under The
impression that she had almost ruined D.
Morny. The idea of the pecuniary sacrifices
which he had made for her oppressed her,
He was soon bored by childlike expressions
OF gratitude. Had she been less grateful it
would have been more easy for him TO csst
her of Love, as she understood the word,
he never thought of in swearing eternal de-
votlo0. VIVA; he merely wanted was to be
talked OF in connection with the beauli-
ful Russian actress by his friends at
the Cercle Imperial. This object at
tanned he became impatient to break with
her. A chum of noble birth and high social
81 andlng, but now fortuneless and obliged 10
i've by his wits, kindly undertook 10 disgust
Nile. Feyghine with the duke, and to launch
ler professional beauty. Such are the
manners and morals of the French aristoc- |
,acy. Tue Russian actress was horIor-struck
1t the plan Tor future career which was
limited to her. Her theatrical sisterhood |
lid not understand why she was so shocked
Vice is as much a condition Of success at the
Francais as at any other Paris theater.
What had NJ. Perrin said when hiring Mile.
Feyghine? "Hour salary will be poor one |
or some lime snd you must dress expen-
lively. All 1 can do for you is to pay for
he lessons Worms gives you" The same
hing, or pretty nearly, had been said to Mile |
;roizette when she issued from the Conssrva-
DIRE 10 play at the house of Moliere.