Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-25
SATURDAY.
MADAME JANAUSCHEK.
Early Life of the Versatile Actress
---f1er Triumph i'm the Drama.

---HeF triumph I'm the Drama.
81 suppose the hard times SO generally
complained of may account for the slen-
der support accorded the legitimate
drama nowadavs" So spoke Madame
Janauschek, the well-known actress, yes
terday to an AHd reporter She contin-
ued: Eyes, the whole drift of it seems
to be toward the lighter school OF plays
Adaptations from the French, and, you
will pardon the word, nasty dramas seem
TO be what people want to 90 to see. All,
well, suppose it can't be helped"
"But, Madame" interposed the re-
porter, "there must surely be some rea-
son for the decline OF tragedy other than
hard times?''
eyes; and | think it because OF the
breaking up and abandonment of the
stock company system We have no
longer trained and educated actors and
actresses. Everybody wants to go star
ring, and that means nobody wants to
take the time to carefully train them
selves in the subordinate ranks"
AN EvENTFuL SEASON.
"What sort of a season have you had
so far, Madam ?" queried the reporter.
Season? Never before has such Il
combination of circumstances been
against me as this season. We have gone
through every kind of adventure and
mishap except shipwreck, and we didn't
experience that sensation merely because
we have not had occasion to trust our
selves on the water. Our car has been
thrown off the track, our people fallen
IL e.,I,la,,1x Oannn6 tho
building next our hotel burned, and yet
we have done well financially. DO you
know" continued the Madame, with
vivacity, 81 like your California audi
ences, they are so quick to perceive
a point. Now, Monday night they APP
plauded just when and where an ordinary
audience would fail to appreciate. Wash
ingtOn audiences are quick too, but then
there you find always a large number OF
foreigners, | like very much to play in
English, and like the (what do you call
IT'D higher comedy. OF course my prefer
ence is for the strictly legitimate drama"
During the course of the conversation
which ensued, Madame Janauschek
stated that she was native OF Bohemia,
and not Germany, as has been commonly
understood She had to learn the Ger
man language, just as she had to acquire
Il knowledge of the English tongue. Her
full name is Francesca Romano Magda
lene Janauschek, and she was born at
Prague on July 20, 1897, so that her re-
appearance before San Francisco audi
ence on last Monday night was also the
of her forty-eighth birthday.
SHE ASPIRED To OPERA.
1t may be a matter of news to many
theatre-goers that Madame Janauschek
early in life began to carefully prepare
herself for the lyric stage, for at the ten
der age of six years she was 4 really
clever performer on the piano, and as she
grew older she became a singer of supe-
rior attanments. When she essayed the
drama she won almost instant success,
and her European tours were more than
in substantial tokens of recog-
milton. She first came to America in
1867, bringing her own company and
PLAYING in German. Her ambition then
was to master the English language, and
she devoted herself assiduously to the
task. In 1871 she again
visited America, appearing as Deborah
in the Academy of Music, New York.
After playing an engagement III New
York She travelled through the country.
She made tour of the Australian
in 1876, and from there
to London to fulfill some short engage
ments. She returned the same season
TO America and has ever since remained
here. When the reporter called on her
Yesterday he was introduced by her
manager, II. J. Sargent, who was nearly
distracted because one of the gentlemen
of the company had been suddenly sum-
moned to the East, and his place had to
be filed on short notice. The Madame,
however, was perturbed only because she
has a perfect horror OF, in even the
slightest degree, disappointing an audi
ence. When the reporter entered the
room he found the Madame deep III the
of an account book, but she at
once dropped all work and welcomed her
guest with kindly smile.
STILL IN HER PRIME.