The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

peri performances gave all the signs of gen-
 From Prague she went to Leipsic and thence to Chemuitz, where she became a member of . travelling company. Tn Sax ony q wealthy family took her under it's patronage and secured for her number or profitable engagements. She drifted rom Hellbron to Cologne and two years after her debut at Prague she was er- ssged as the leading woman at the Stadt theatre in Frankfort. There she remain- ed more than ten years and developed into the great tragic player of classic roles that she was when she first ap- peared before an American audience
 Tn ls61 she crossed the Atlantic with her own German company and one of the finest wardrobes ever possessed by a vo- man player. She opened on October Q. 1887. in New York as Medea. She spoke not word of English. but her superb acting won her an immediate, success She returned to Amsterdam in 1870 with the determination to master English. How we'll she accomplished her ambition two generations of Americans now know.
 It has been said that she hypnotized her audiences. Surely no other hypoth- ests explains her success in a play which demanded so much personal beauty Of the Lady Dedlock of fiction the text read:
 "she was as graceful as she was beau- tifui.
 She has fine face-orIginaily of a character that would rather be called very pretty than handsome. but improved into classicality by the acquired express sion Of her fashionable state.
 Lady Deadlock, graceful, self-possessed, looked after by adniring eyes
 MAfeatfc in Her Haarfn1
 Janauschek, majestic in bearing and stature. bore no resemblance to the beautiful Lady Dediock. and never once simulated the languid grace of the heroine of Bleak House." She wore the tragic shawl as abominably as the titled Englishwoman who has not a shawl figure invariably wears the favor- ite article of dress. Janauschek's gown of rich material trailed in the back breadths, fiared at the sides and hlked up in front It was altogether the reverse of graceful or elegant. but from the moment she appeared on the stage she was far and away beyond criticism of her personal appearance. She was the coldly beautiful woman whose brilliant eyes hid from the world a cruel secret. who was thrice armed through having her quarrel just, whose personal beauty had been her only dover. She was the real Lady Deadlock, with all her perfec- tions on her head.
 No less successful and significant of genius her dual part of Hortense was played with certainty and strength Again she became the character, with a hateful distinction. even to literally dark enlng her large eyes with a sense of malignant feeling and not by any stage process The something in her dark cheek beating like clock' was simu- lated by an emotion so intense that Janauschek declared 1t cost her spasms of pain. Again the dress and vraisem- blance were lost sight of in the tigerish expression of the woman's face, in the strained words that escaped with hushed fury through her closed teeth, as with a devilish smile she hurled the epithets .," You are a devilr' "Les. all lies," and T should like to kiss her. at Inspector Bucket. When the curtain <fel women would sigh and relax, while men wiped the drops of feeling from cheek and brow Janauschek. the great tragedienne. had galvanized the puppets of fiction in- to living, breathing people. By her splendid genius she recreated the off- spring of Dickens brain and at the same moment from her magnificent, vitality 'hypnoti5ed and held spelibound her en- tranced audience.
 Life Touch to Master's Work.
 
 Queen Ellzabeths great feat of dlctat- ing two letters at the same time Is eclipsed, yet three centuries ago 1t was given to posterity as a stroke of genius
 Those who have seen the great actress in her two impsrsonations will remem- Der that no ghost of fiction or semblance of unreality attended or obscured her acting. She gave to the masters work the life touch when words were poor and inadequate.
 Janauschek made her own fame by hard work. which must always attend genius, and she succeeded in her own country and in Germany before she came to America. She was nearly at middle age when she learned English. This strong. brave woman, lying al- most helpless, has fortunate memories of endeavor and achievement which should reconcile her to the inevitable. Asked onEe what she most feared she said:
 That which we all fear most and have most cause to fear-incomplete l ness" 'T do not fear public opinion. My only | wish is to be judged justly. TT should not like to be haTnpered with | illness" Then she added as an after l thought: "I have no fear of the here after"