Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-20
A GREAT AIIREsS.
Brief Sketch, OF Ja0ausehek. the Ira.
EedienRe.

Brief Sk etch OF Jsoausehek. the Ira.
gedienRe.
Ane. Janauschek, now playing at the
Opera House, has achieved an international
reputation. Her full name Is Francesca
r mar Msgdalsna JaDsuschek, and she is
9 native Of Prague, in Bohemia. She de-
yeloped an extraordinary musical talent
when quite young, aud al the age OF ten
was not only good pianist but brilliant
vocalist At fifteen she entered the conser-
vatory of music and there leaned the Ital-
ian language and perfected her knowledge
Of the German. 1t was during her stay III
the conservatory, under the tuition OF
master IN elocution who took great inter
e., in her, that she first developed her won
OeTIul hIstrioDic abilities. at sixteen SUI
made her appearance on the stage Ia
Prague, as Carolina in the comedy u
VIII Remain Single" After thai
ste appeared in the comedy of 'Com5
Here" and later as Louise in Love anG
IL trigue." 1t was in these performances
that sne showed the development OF the
germ that has produced the great artistic
After playing a few provincial engage
ments, she went 10 Leipsic. From there
travelling company. At SchwarIzenourg.
in Saxony, she was taken under the pa.
trODage Of q wealthy family, who secured
her more profitable engagement. Thence
SIZE proceeded to Hebron, and her star ap'
ve AZ ed in the ascendant. After she was
seventeen she was engaged at Cologne.
Dur ng this time she had been unremit
,ing in her studies and tirm in her deter
animation 10 win a leading position on the
l.. ~ hn nj
usue such RAPID advances IN her protes-
sion, that at the age of eighteen she was en-
gage d as leading lady at the Stadt Theatre
| of Frankfort. There she remained for
eleven years, aud at the age OF TWEEN
ty-nine closed as q star. Her ambition
| Lext led her to win the title of Royal Ac-
.ress. Fora year and half she Starred
| Il rough Europe, which was then aolaze
| With her fame, ard at the end OF thai time
| she accepted a three years contract with
| the Royal Theatre at Dresden. This en-
| d, we'd her with the title she lonRed for
| Il al Of Royal Actress'-and she remained
| there for year as the protege OF Ming
| John, There she won the friendship Of
| C,Ius, then contemporary OF Goethe aud
| I. ok and the friend of the king. Leaving
Dresden, she starred through Europe for
| three years, and in 1865 Came to
| An erica with her own company. At
| that time she was ignorant OF our
1911 guase and our people aud she had some
| III sgivIpes on that account, as to the nature
| of the reception that would be accorded
| her. She opened in the Academy Of Music
| il New York on October 9th, as Medea.
| Tie size Of the audience and its hearty ap.
| D. ecia:ion Of her acting set all her doubts
| at rest, At that time she acted exclusively
| N German, but the interest taken in her
| by her audiences determined her to master
| he English tongue. So when she again
1 RI turned to Europe she adopted heroic
| measures to familiarizs herself with it
Ills did not take her longer than one year.
| Ste began her English performances in the
| season. OF 1854, playing Medes, Lady Mac
b. To and Marie Stuart. In sll OF these she
| proved herself an artist Of the greatest
| o, wer. From time to time she added to
| Repertoire antil now il is perhaps the
| lslge ST OF any trsgedienne on the stage:
| ZiIlah aud Mariana SIRE the two latest, and
they are her bills for her Wheeling engage
| uent.
MORNING. Glory Baking Powder; always
II, sh and pure. No family. should be
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