The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-28
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teaching. When ait the hel1d of a great
kingdom she RENE m eHed the trials and
sufferlngs through which she had come
in her own youth, and SHE determined
that the marty young girls from noble
families like her own, without resources,
should not be subjected to the same
difficulties and trials through which she
had in some way managed to marry. So
with the consent of her rayol consort,
shs founded at st. Cyr a great instdu-
ton for girls, wherein she gathered
under her protecting wing four hundred
girls of noble families. an OF them poor;
ard at that time poverty and mobile birth
were frequsn1y allied.
As a teacher, understanding the value
of the drama, she Thought of having the
girls give little plays, and had no trouble
in enlisfting a large number of such az
tors. They first performed a tragedy
OF Cornelle. And then they were tried
with Racine's great success, "Androm-
ache" wherein, indeed, the very ESSENCE
of what Us lacking in Comedies play
love-abounded, and this time the young
ladies of st. Cyr found no ditficuity IN
entering thoroughly into the spirit OF ule
play and in inlpanting into each chat-
acter such a passionate eharm,s sucl p"
thorough understanding of TIE subtle
ties of love that Nine. de Mannheim leil
lat shaken in the policy of Initiating
young GIRLS into the mystery OF PASSION
ate Icve. Hence, as She did ndt wish TO
give up the plays sfia wrote to Racine,
telling him of her experiment and the
way it had come out. 1--WE played your
"Andromache" and we played it a good
deal too we'll. Please w-tta me a trag dy
1gzxr1 To
h:ar was to obey. Racine wrote
ESTHER" a tragedy in three acts. He
was thus brought by no wish of his own
into the scsrYe of his former labors
THE Thought of so grand a tragedy and
eff the story OF Esther was dramatic
enough but had to be scftened down 10
meet the needs of the case. He could
not write for this college tragdy fun
OF passion and of expressions of anger
ana cruelty All this had to be smoothed
down. So he began the play of
"Atilalie'~ with no thought OF Sit. Cyr,
but with the idea of It's production en-
the greater and more public stage.
Catulle Mendes, in the second secdes of
his IL An. au Theatre" says that OF all
artistic glory, THE actors glory is that
which remains for all iime, and which
will be perpetuated for ages more vividly
and more indestuctibly than any other.
And why? because as soon as his glory
is posthunus there remains nothing to
show that 1t was never or emily PARTLY
deserved. Cicero may be bullied, treated
as an laristocrat and as an unsuppo table
ehattensr by The school boy obliged to
translate "a single page of the "Cstilne,"
for that page is there. But I defy the
same school boy TO say that Roscius was
mot a great actor, because it is imp SSH
BILE that h can know anything about
him.
Julia Mar,owe Is considf ring an APPEAR
ance as Nero In a. new play based upon
the early days of the emperor.
Eleanora Duse will give s,ries of
performances at Mo~te Carlo this Win
ter.
julie Opp, who appssred the past week
as Princess Pannenaa in "The Princess
and tbs ButteeAy," is a New York gil.
When the public first heard of her she
was newspaper woman on one of the
New York papers. In the course of her
newspaper work sh= had occasion to see
many theatrical people, and 1T is said
she made great friends of Bernhard and
Calye.
Miss Opp was handsome and had am
air quite outsidI. the newspaper world.
A year ago she went to England through
the advice of Calve and Bernlhardt She
visited the former, and with Bernhardt
HIS negotiated for a play that she was
writing. In the nlea ntime, Miss Opp
was pursuing her dramatic studies. One
of her assist an'ts was Jaraine. Miss Opp
was married ITO him just before she left
London for America. When Miss Opp
met MIR. GsorgeanGes of the St. James
thea.er, London, he offered her a. small
part in his company She accepted the
offer, and became un1ar7study to Julia
Nelson and played Rosalind. Nine. de
Mlauban i'm "T'he Prisoner of Zenda,"
and the princess in 1.-THE Princess and
the Butterfly" the pant first made a sue
cess by Miss Nelson.
Rosa Obatzka, who has sung in the Me-
tropolitan opsna house, New York, has
had an enthusiastic reception in Lon
don. She has been engaged to sing with
the de Reiszkes in German opera at SIT.
Petersburg.
Marie Engel, the American singer, who