The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-01
xxE. JANAUSCHEK IN 4 RAGE
OVER TOSSsNrS PROPOSAL TO
d. SELL HER COSTUMES.



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SARATOGA, Aug 81 Nine. JAnsuscbek.
the once great act reSs. who haa been Ill here
Tor two years or more, read in the New York
papers OF this morning about the proposal
OF James y. Tossini Of as Reid avenue,
Brooklyn. to sell her wardrobe and Jewels,
and she promptly Jew into a rage that
would have been quite magnificent enough
for stage purposes. After she had read
the proposition. she said:
THAT man will not sell my costumes
and jewels, because he cannot i would
like TO see him do 30 withou, authority from
mo He has no such authority and will
not get it. suppose he thinks he will get
the few dollars | owe him II he sells the
satters Of Meg MsrrilGes, or the nightdress
OF Lady Macbeth. or the royal robes Of
Marie Stuart or Marie Antotnetts. Or the
throne room jewels which the Maria Of
France and the Maria OF Britain wore.
But let him not worry about those few
dollars. He will get them in good time.
in my good time, and will pay him quick
Mime. Janauschek 10 boarding at the
Ashton, one Of the smaller boarding houses
OF the village, in Franklin street. She
has wo OF the best rooms In the house,
| one Of which il occupied by her maid. To
those who know the actresses financial con-
dition II may seem that maid 10 rather
An expensive luxury: but the woman IL not
u luxury, she IL an absolute necessity
Nine. Janauschek's left side 10 entirely
paralyzed. and she suffers. besides, from
what her physician, DR.. James Z. Kelley,
calls vanter hernia. Were It not for the
attentions OF the maid, the aged act ress
would be hardly able to help herself.
Or. Kelley told The SUN correspondent
this afternoon that the hernia had be en-
reduced and the effect Of the paralysi IL
walk about her room, with difYiculty There
il no hope, however, Of ultimate recovery
and, in u woman Of NINE. Janauschek'
age (she is about ~, u second stroke Of
paralysis may come at any time.
But it 10 the financial, rather than the
physical, condition of the actress that
needs attention now and needs il in q hurry.
She is indebted to the proprietor Of her
hotel for something over $500, and he wants
his money. In speaking OF his boarder this
afternoon Mr.. Ashton said
Nine Janauschek will have been with
me two years in November. The last money
/ received from her was last July. when she
paid me $50 on account. She now owes me
a little more than $500, and l feel that l
ought to have the money. ! am very sorry
for madame, but / have not the capital
to keep her and her maid in two OF the best
rooms have in the house for nothing.
Il was in New York on Saturday and
called at the Office Of the Actors Fund. In
company with the secretary OF Harrison
Grey Fiske, to lay the case before them
/ found to nv surprise that the officers
OF the Actors Fund do not feel very kindly
disposed toward Nine. Janauschek. II
seems that they were appealed to In her
behalf some time ago and they. offered to
provide for her She not only declined the
offer, because she regarded it as altogether
too small for her maintenance. but sent,
30 | WAS informed, what was regarded as
rather an insulting letter 10 the secretary
or some other officer of the f,ind.
Il was given TO understand that the
officers Of the fund We're not inclined to
take up the case again until madame WAS
In mood 10 give their Offer more respectful
conside ration. Further than that, ! WAS
told that the fund regards 1t a. an unneces-
sary expenditure for madame to employ a
physician at IS visit, when she can get the
best medical aid in Saratoga for much less.
tired Of boarding her for nothing. l turn
her over to the overseer OF the poor. That
do not want to do, and do not think 1
could bring myself to do that. However,
l cannot keep her and her maid without
any pay. and would like the lnadarne's
have to be made for her by somebody
pretty soon. The IS 900 she received from
the benefit in 1901 was exhausted long ago
This man Tossini holds forty -four
trunks belonging TO madame, and all filled
with costumes and souvenirs Of her stage
career. She lived in an apartment owned
by this man and left her things there when
she came to Saratoga. As long as she had
any money, she paid him S25 month for
tbs fat in which her trunks were. instead
OF putting them in storage. | suppose
Tossini now wants some of the money
due him"
Madame Janauschek's oldest friend and
adviser is n. S, Wood OF 500 Haley street.
Brooklyn, and he. 1t is underst God, is trying
to find some way Of raising money for the
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