The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-09-04

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Ger, whose life in great measure
answers the oft-repeated question
about class of women whose pro
fession is popularity held to be ono
Of exposure.
Guiseppina Morlacchi was cele
brated in her time and as she was
born 1913, that time was not long
ago. Why, it was only so far back
rs 1869 that she appeared at the
Grand Opera House here in that
famous production of 1.-THE TEN
pest" Then she was stage queen
In the height of her beauty and
iush of her power she had every
path of a successful stage queen
open to her.
/ find that the record and the
traditions agree as to her exem-
plary character, her exceptional
probity, her marked individuality
and her rare sense of honor and
Justice. Isn't this delicious in a
ballet dancer?
Among her admirers while she
was playing at the Grand Opera
House was the generous, reckless,
and somewhat flabby Jim Fisk, the
after Mikado of West Side Satur-
MALTA. He had everything but his
own money to be a Cresus. He
only lacked discretion to be a
Macanas. One night he went to
Morlacchi as she was waiting to 60
on and slipped a diamond ring on
her finger. After the performance
she sent for him and handed the
ring back to him.
sob, it's real" said Fisk. ooh,
bother, you know it's the first water
and worth $1,000"
Bah ~ said Morlacchi, with
shrug, " / can earn that with one
of my toes"
The confused Mikado went to
the front of the house, and running
against Cliff Tayleure, he remarked
when he had got his breath:
There's good woman that a bad
man could fight for" OF course
he meant a bad man who had the
courage to fight. This was before
he was colonel.
When the "Devil's Auction >"
was produced here, she was the
chief attraction. In 1869 she
made "The Nights
Dream" at Selwyn's in Boston.
Then against her own wishes, she
played the French Spy" and in
1871 was with the Majiltons.
1t was in Chicago that she first |
met Texas Jack and fell in love
With him. This strange alliance
seem to have been the result of |
genuine affection, and the premiere
who had enthralled Turin, Genoa,
Lisbon, and held the gidled youth |
Of London at bay, fell into the arms
of the American scout. They were
married, and on her part at least,
The relationship is said to have
been one of unwayering devotion
md fidelity. The eccentricity and
irregularity of her husband cost
her many pang, but she chung to
lim. When he died in 1881 in
Leadville, she was there. She put
Up with every discomfort; left
home, roughed it and
stood by him through all the
troubles that ended in his sickness
md death, and hers were the
lands that closed his eyes.
After that she retired to a little
New England town and lived out
Ter widowhood in a quiet and
lnobserved way.
Some of the stories of her indie
'endent character are both refresh
ng and curious. On one occasion.
When playing in a spectacular
'iece, she saw the property man
arelessly break one of the ballet
iris helmets, for which she was
harged - and the management de-
ucted from the salary in spite of her
rotests. Indignant Mile Nor
icchi sent for the manager and
old him she had seen the property
nan break the helment. She insis-
I'd that the girls money should be
efunded. When the manager
she threw up her engage
lent, and leaving the theatre, took
ne girl with her.
During the Fisk regime at the !
rand Opera House, all the efforts !
entrap her into the Bohemian 4
rgles utterly failed. To all the !
ollte invitations to supper she
lvariably sent polite declination.
he saved her money, invested it
and when her husband
led, retired on a competence Of her
Yn, with clean record. Mr.. John
Burke, who was for long time
er manager, went to Billerica, last
Ionday, to attend the funeral.
He tells us that the entire town 1.
armed out. In the church where
he services were held, were the
-ethodist, Baptist and Catholic i
Some of the stores
ere closed. All denominations
ourned her. The community )
onored her memory.