Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-19
THE GREAT DUSE.
The Actress Now All the Rage
in the Metropolis.
HER MYSTERIOUS LIFE.
4 Strange Personally Her W Hsalsh-Al-
tempted Social Attentions 10 Her 10
Nsw Yotk--hos Romantic
Early Life.

particular. Signora puse has been in
this country for period of seven Weeks
without conversiug with anybody OF
the hated sex except the members oi her
own company. Two months age her
managers ON this tour the kuspnield
BIOs.. arranged a party Of reporters 20
20 down the bay alll WELCOME the ar
rival Of the Italian actress. The chnmr
payne and chicsen salad hilnriU of the
tug committee was dnnptned 10y TIE
fact that Elcanora Duse was not pas
scnger aboard the steamship on which
she had been announced 20 sail some
days earlier she had arrived mcognito
aud was quietly resting at the Murray
Hill hotel The Rosenfclds rushed mp
Immediately 20 confer with her nhont
the Fifth avenue season. She fciused
10 see them, sending wod down 10y her
maid that they wvre to have every tmng
IN readiness FOR the opening right when
she would appear according 20 the let
ter of her contract Next day smart
Herald reporter sat In the hotel OIL morris
Ing until Signora Duse went out Tor her
usual drive. When she appeared the
journalist bowed politely nnd began
series Of questions m French. S'ghefa
Duse merely continued buttOuing hrr
glove, and when the elevator reached
the ground floor gathered TAP her tram,
swept silently past the nstouished scribe
and entered her carriage, since thnt
Jay uupouy nus NfhlWlfu ~ .AN'A ~"
her. She Is accompanied by her own
Italian manager, through whum OIL poin'
muuications by the Rosentclds mus be
made. Half az hour before the tlith
avenue performances She arrives, ~ the
thenter IN q closed cnrringe. liNt nh
hour after the close OF the performance
the closed carriage bears her back to
the hotel.
One of our most cnterprisng Journals
offered 10 devote un entire Sunday pngc
TO Dusc II she would consent TO snort
interview The advertisement wqnlb he
worth $1,000. and the RotrnicllS were
! IN state Of extreme enthusiasm over A.
| but when the proposal was mlu bcto"
/ SguOrn Dusc she calculated a decisive
| NO" and thus was the end of a.
An accurate account Of her life must
| necessarily consist in n general denial ul
| the statements that have been circulated
about her. ono Of the earliest inter
views invented by reporter who WIS
| rebufied nt the stugc door aud hotel, con.
! sisted In an deliberately explicit story Of
| her supcrstitons. Signura Dusc h
! wholly free from superstition, SOME
! dnys later Journalist invented the idcn
that she was COnsumptiyc. Signorn
! buses lungs are wholly free from put
monnry complaint. When the excite
ment over this report abatcd new
! MuuchnuSen declared that the reason
] Ia
the fact that IN early youth She hnd
married dssolute Italian reporter,
named Cecchi. who had ill-treated and
subsequently deserted her. The truth ~
| that la buses husband was u floren-
tine nDhlcman. an nminble and Wei
bred aristocrat with neither ABILITY nor
| artistic tnste. After living hnppllA
enough with her husband for y year the
couple separated on the question OF The
continuance of the stage career Of Elca'
nora Duse. She has one daughter by
that marriage. q young girl, who Is now
being educated Ia Turin.
Asit Is impossible 10 gain an interview
with In Duse or her company, the mein'
beers of which have a dread ot reporters
little less pronounced than that of tho
| star herself 1 have drawn the accurate
intelligence of this artistic from iniol1un'
ton given by her personal friends Ia this
country and from tile accounts oi a cor.
II spOndent In Vienna who IL acquainted
with the incidents OF her early history.
The former source of facts b. not in.
deed, abundant Elconora Duse has few
friends In New York. and those she pos
sessos are not admitted into much init.
mucy A characteristic example of this
pcculiarity Is fresh Va the memory of one
of our most wOiunnly Of women. shortly
before the arrival OF tho Italian company
Mrs Richard Watson Glider, wifi ot the
editor of The Century, received u lettcl
from her sister, who N living on the con.
tincnt. asking her 10 offer some socnl
hOspitalitiCs 10 Signorn Duse. After the
Fifth avenue engagement had fairly
commenced Mrs. Glider called on her
sisters friend, presented her letter OF
introduction and her nolitcst compllmgnis'
Sipnorn Dusc received the visitor aud the
courtosies coldly. She said nothing be-
yond The conventlonnlitics OF society.
and was very evidently DESTROYS that the
interview shonld be- terminated as soon
MS possible. Observing this constrained
feeling, Mrs Glider drew her chair up
closer aud taking In Duses hand IN
her own, said earnestly; "Now, my dear
signora, this Is M wise aud unwoImnly
Here You are n stranger Ia strange
country. You may fall sick, we oil do
M times: and however good your ply
siciau may be, you can not always rely
on him. No matter how distant and
reserved you may be 10 other people, ]
am resolved 20 look after you with the
friendship one woman should feol t0wasl
anothor Before / SO on 81 this room,
| insist upon your promising me that
IL Won are IN or IN trouble at any time,
YOU viii sead no once 10 me This re
serVed manner Of yours may do with
other people, but Il won't do with me.
1 have been requested by my sister 20
look after you, and ] am going 10 30 ~,
whether You want me or not Ia
1 Duse was Vsihly affected by Mrs. GU.
der's wOmanly affections. She nccedeil
10 the reuuest. and few days later. Boz.
ING I'M. Immediately sent 10 her doctor
FOR drugs and 10 the plnin-spokeu little
American woman for nursing and sym
me malady from which Eleonora Duse
h an almost constant sufferer, " spinal
roulplaint IL cannot bc cured she
bns employed the best Physicians IN
Europe with results Of IDeely tempor-
airy relief. The condition u Ler hralth
has made Signora Dusc melancholy
She Is ayerse 20 society 10 eFefy1nhg
awe her art, 20 whicli size is devoted
Size never cOnverses with members Of
her company except on mntiers 81 stage
buginess SIG Ando. her leading man
au admirable actor, Of noble italian
family. Is also stage manager Of The
company He has occupied lis dual
fositiou FOR fourteen ycarB, 81 salary
N 10000 francs 4 wear. TIC newest
,nonnher Of the organization has been
,.,itb Il FOR seven years. All the actors
an. 20 thoroughly rehearscd Ia the stars
methods. that they can go 90 me siagc
without preparation nnd perform any
NAV 40 her repertory VIII The marYel0us
condolences u ART thai las made this
engagement notable The actors ore
6sndsolnely paid and extremely devoted
~ their chief Sguorn Duge however
ner,nits no such familiarity as IA a fea-
mr. IL other theatrical irDupes She
never travels with her plnytrA mar per.
1uits them - visit her during Tie fre-
oueut occasions 81 her Illness, nor allo@
wen gienor AndO 70 stop az th' hotel
,fhere she resides Eie0nOra Dnse D q
thorouehly gelhsE, concentrated ambitious