Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-08-25
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Nine. Janauschek and Her Re-
turn to the Stage.

Though She Has Earned an EnOr-
nous Lot of Money, She Is Not Rich
Today Personal characteristics.
Early Ambitions.
NEW YoRK, Aug. 24.-[Special. And
so Nine. Fanny Janauschek is going to
return to the stage, after much and ur-
gent persuasion" they say, but more like
ly because she needs the money she can
earn for current expenses.
Nine. Janauschek is one of the most
intellectual women on the American stage
today. Her professional career has been
full of the most overwhelming successes,
both artistically and financially. Indeed
there are few actresses. living or dead,
who have earned more money than she,
and she has never been obliged to resort
to cheap claptrap either. But Nine.
Janauschek's lack of business ability has
been quite as noteworthy as her artistic
powers. She has always been able to
earn money in wads, but she has never
been able to keep it. Therefore, instead
of being rich In her maturity, as are
Lolita. Kate Claxton, Maggie Mitchell
and number of other women Of the
successes while Janauschek was thrilling
the country with her wonderful tragedy
performances, she is poor and must earn
her dinner before she can eat it
JanRuschek the Woman.
Janauschek plans to appear this sea-
son in new dramatization Of SCOTS
Guy Mannering," taking the role Of
Meg Merriles as a matter of course.
Though her fine abilities and her power
to grasp the subtlest meanings render
her fit intellectually for almost any role,
her personality has lent itself more cas-
lily to success in roles Of the Meg Mer-
rifles type, and now in her age she would
hardly dare essay anything else
Nine. Janauschek, who is of Bohemian
! birth, has said that despite her stage
successes her career has far from repaid
! her for the tremendous sacrifices il has
| involved. Without any one near to her,
/ without home. even without a country
| for when in Bohemia she longs for Amer
! lea, and when here she longs for Bo-
| hemia-she declares her declining years
| TO be ineXpfessibly sad and unsatisfac-
| tory, and she sometimes complains bit
! terly because il Is so full Of action, be-
/ cause she must ever be on the move, las
busy as any galley slave on the tread
] mill. 10 ner the notion OF training
young woman for the stage is exceeding
ly abhorrent, and when she is in the
mood to give her views on this subject
she scores everything and everybody con-
nected with the theater in a way that
would bring out a tremendous storm OF
indignant protests were the scoring to
come from some one unconnected with
the stage-a clergyman or an official Of
the w. G. T. Z. or one of the Salvation
list Booth family. for instance.
In her youth Fanny Janauschek had
ambitions to be a singer, and these ann
billions were strengthened by the quality
OF her voice, which was then pure, strong
and of great volume. There was only
one obstacle in the way OF realizing her
desires. 1t was of n financial nature.
She could not go on the stage as singer
without special training. special train
ing could not be procured without money,
and money she didn't have and couldn't
get. Perhaps she might have been able
to secure it had she been an unusually
personable young woman, but no one
who has ever seen her need be told she
was never beautiful. Though possessing
the comeliness Of strength. both physical
and mental, she never aroused enthusi-
asm for herself as a woman till after
the artistic had won unwilling tribute
from the Dublic