Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-17
FRAU JANAUSCHEK
 GERMAN ACTRESS

Poor Janauschek! This is the phrase that comes to one in thinking of the great German actress who died last month at little home for elderly play people on Long Island. Frau Fanny Janauschek was 75 years old when she died. She was born in Prague in 1920. When 10 years old she played the piano with distinction. At 16 she began her study of the players art at the Stadt theater in Prague She learned this art patiently and thoroughly, and was always master of 1t.
 For twenty years she practiced the, art Ill Germany with increasing re- nown, playing at Cologne, Frankfurt am-Main, and for long time ill the court theater of Dresden during the reign of the scholarly King John of Saxony. Near the close of this period slie made artistic tours through Ger many and Austria, and everywhere was recognized as q great artist in serious tragic ,sharact I~ Then she came to this country. That was in 1867. She came here knowing no English, but at once made a strong impression in German plays. She played Lady Macbeth in German ir Boston to Edwin Booths Macbeth in English. It was at Aughstin Days suggestion that she resolved to play in English She reached this point in her careerIin 1871. As player Tn Fnclish olso sh" at'ai (d and retain cd for twenty years commanding position. She always spoke English with q foreign accent, but this only added to the clearness and distinc- tion of her enunciation. Dignity, sin cerity and strength were the charac- teristics of her work. She could ham, tlIe a great passion without tearing 1t in pieces, and also give to 1t all the. subtle gradations and shadings neees- sary to account for it. She easily held her own with Charlotte Cush- man in all the heavier tragic parts, and at the same time had a wider rano. Madea, Mary Stuart, Lady Macbeth, Catherine H, Meg Merri- ies, were some Of her famous parts. Then her powers began to fail
 How much money she earned dur ing her long and successful career in Europe and in this country nobody knows Everybody knows, now ever, that 1t was n very great sum. But while this princely income was coming in hand over fist, it was all going out about as fast. All the flowers of success hloomed for Frau JanauschelS in her time, but she was not gifted in laying any of them away for her needs when the work ing day was over. She married the man who managed her first appear ances in this country, and although he was as faithful to her as dog, lie also drank like a fish. He wasted pile of her money by extraordinary investments, and finally she had to place him with some good people who took care of him until the end of his drunken, loving life. Her money, however, Kept on flying out of the window, just the same. She who stood on the stage was mistress of all the intelligence, dignity and in- tegrity of great womanhood, never at- tafned much more wisdom than that of child in the art of handling the pockethook Her last days were not so poverty stricken as they some tinee seemed to appear, b'lt she final ly bod to sell h. r souvenirs and artis- tic t.eas,Tes in rder to secure ad- mission to the Brunswick home Four years ago she was stricken with pa ralysis and the end came only last month. Poor Janauschek!