The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-29
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Coming Of the Immortal
RistOri.
THE MUSICALE AT JENNINGS
The Rival OF RacheI-Musical Recep-
tion-Buckiey's Death-Patience
The Minstrels.

The Minstrels,
Next week Salt Lake is to receive
woman whose name, throughout the
-worId has been held to be the acting
of the drama what Shakespeare Is to
the writing of it. Many people will
recollect that the immortal Rachel once
came with blaze to America and that
Ristori following her. She then played
exclusively in italian. In later years she
came over and essayed English, and
now. on her third tour, she is said to
have acquired yer. good command OF
our language. She is at this time about
go years of age, and of course limits
her appearance to such roles as we have
seen JanaRschek essay. The Memphis
AppeGI contains the following account
of the great italian.
In travelling, Ristori and her charming
daughter wear dark cloth dresses. They
are well bred, gentle people, keenly alive
to the duties of hospitality. AT home,
in Rome, they see much of diplomatic
life, and live IN one of their spacious
palaces. In Paris they have another
palace and they have, as well, spent
much time in London. The family all
speak English, Donna Blanca without
accent The young lady assured the
writer that it was very customary Tor
Italian ladies to speak English and that
every family of position employs
governess for that language. Nine.
Ristori, herself, makes excellent prog
ress with our tongue and easily sus-
tains conversation.
THE PARIS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.
Speaking of Paris, Nine. Ristori said
feelingly: Although 1 have home
there I do notllike to remain. Memories
are too much for me. 1 find them
crowding upon me and long array of
friends now departed come painfully be-
fore me. | seem to see the brilliant
salon, with its clever men and gifted
women, the flow OF conversation and
wit. But it is all silent now. They are
dead who once made that gay Partisan
life so full and complete. The silence
is that of the tomb"
'And is there no salon now are there
none to rise up and ELL the place OF the
departed?
None. There are no doubt women
in Paris who write and are brilliant,
but the day of the salon died with Nine.
Nohl. the old structure of society is
destroyed. A few years ago
met a remarkably brilliant English
woman who drew all the crowned heads
that IS the intellect of Paris-to her |
home. But age had laid its hand heavi-
ly upon her. She was the same fantas-
tic woman. fond of society and keen to !
be everywhere, but she had almost !
totally lost her memory. She, too, has |
now passed from the world she out |
lived"
And the new Paris is different2"
Eyes, said madame. turning her face |
from the window and smiling once !
MARITIME there now, with his delicate |
beautiful verses, his infinite tenderness. |
All, what sympathetic, kind man he |
was. l remember when a young girl / |
recited for him one of his own poems, |
and, as he listened, the tears dropped |
from his eyes and fell upon his hands. |
His was a soul, fine, and full of appreci- |
alton, but his poetry was too lyrical for
the theatre. His writing was something
of an index to his character; it was fine
and delicate, like q woman's."
Ibid you ever know the Dumas?"
"Pere, extremely we'll; .fls, very well.
The elder man was q friend of ours, and
often visited US. ] have seen him write
two novels and drama at once, carry
ing on a conversation at the same time.
His manuscript was perfeot-no eras-
ures no defects. We have some of
them to this day."
''Ristori, pronouced that great critic
al tho most tGchn fro CaHx- ffSolf Che
is comedy itself. She is the drama. She
can laugh and weep at will" And so
Iistori. sitting in her private car,
brought back memories Of the brilliant
friends now called to a higher immor-
tality. She spoke of the sparkling
Janin with his ready wit, and his care
full comprehension of the drama, and
then she talked of Rachel, and described
her wildly, until the writer could see
in fancy the classic head, and deep set
brown eyes, the exquisitely statutesque
figure upon which drapery hung as
upon no other human being. It is a
glowing tribute paid by living genius to
dead genius. 1t has come to a fashion
able phrase that "Ristori crushed
Rachel" when no statement could be
more utterly absurd. A conversation
with Nine. RistorI sets the matter be-
lOAA0 AOAOSs 44C 11NLIk
an with half a century of triumph
behind her, spoke tenderly, compass
sioHately, nay, glowingly of the dead
weman'S greatness. In talking of her
early death and lingering sickness the
Madame said:
- We visited the house where she died.
1t was near Cannes-a gloomy place
with seeming mystery floating over it.
1t appears to have been recommended
to Rachel and placed at her disposal by
a friend under the vain impression that
she would here find relief from her
ahment-consumption. Her bedroom
was queer place with a marble bed.
stead, bearing at its foot carved figure,
weeping. There was curious closet,
too, near its head, containing stairway
which led down to the room where she
attended devotion. The place had a
dreadful effect upon me, and l learned
that she, too, was obliged to forsake it.
and that she died below stairs in a small
room, originally intended for one of the
maids. It seemed strange to select so
weird place. and one so calculated to
excite morbid feelings in the breast of
an emotional person"
Among other distinguished people
Nine. Ristori particularly referred 10