The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

now making money and now losing it,
suffering continually from bad manage
ment and her inability to adapt herself
to the methods of the American press
and advance agent and the demands of
the local managers.
One dissolute agent, who for several
years had charge of her affairs did
more to ruin her financially than all
her own mistakes. He placed her in
the wrong houses, mangled her roper
toire, weakly supported her, and drag
ged her about the vast circuits of the
country with little regard for her age
and no consideration for her reputation.
In this prolonged transforming the
country saw her oftenest in BLEAK
House." and SO preferred to see her
but sh els still remembered in the acad-
emic circles of the middle west and
northwest for what was educational
and enduring in her work
For she was re-eminently a BARN
stormer." Where you will find Nine.
Janauschek best remembered is in the
cities and mining camps of the west in
what were the new towns" of the
ever advancing frontier. Those who
were young fifteen years ago and whose
environment was a new town. of the
west, will perhaps speak most enthusi-
astically of Janauschek, and few of
these have not seen her in the wide
range of her repertory. Her visits were
events, more SO perhaps than the visits
of Clara Morris, Lawrence Barrett,
Nine. Modjeslxa, or others of the time
who went into this new territory so
geqerous in its patronage of the the
ator
Where Nine. Janauschek found no
theaters she played in halls, and where
no halls in warehouses. But, wherever
it was, she awed the young and i'm
pressed the old by her performance of
the heroines of tragedy.
Even when 1.-The east as the Missis-
sippi river divides it in the western
idea, no longer waited on this gloomy
and majestic lady, the west was loyal.
She returns again and again to be well
coined by generous audiences. Then
the west shifts again and disappears.
She appeared in 1895 in new produc-
ton, a melodrama called 1.-THE Great
Diamond Robbery" accepting the part
of an old bag purporting to represent
a notorious New York receiver"
also recall the effect which this great
artist in her decline produced, not alone
on the audience but upon the play it
self, lifting the very haggardneSS of a
role to an almost awful VividneSS of
power. An incident occurred during
the rehearsal of that melodrama which,
though trivial enough, emphasized at
the time the pathoS of her position. 1t
should be remembered that when she
came to this country she brought with
her a magnificent collection of jewels, |
many of them costly souvenirs present. |
ed to her by the king of Bavaria, and |
west by her agent as an advertise |
ment.
In the melodrama she calls upon a |
who has stolen some valuable |
gems, and that woman expresses some |
surprise at her mean appearance, to
which she is made to reply: ''Mein |
Iotti i do not wear diamonds-I buy |
-heml'' At the first utterance of these |
words they seemed to call up her past, I
md turning to the author of the play, !
who stod in the wing, she said: 'Ah, |
nein Gotti I can no longer buy or wear
HEM
From that time Janauschek disap-
Once her name comes forward in con-
lection with. a play written for Stuart
Robson. It is a failure. Then, again,
he goes into obscurity and alas, power
V. Her condition becomes known and
| benefit for her in New York nets
nut of her old life. The world is too
)usy to chronicle her private sorrows
IT her remembered virtues. She passes,
heavily laden with her honors, into the
of age and decrepitude. Eager
7oung favorites come now and then to
Zee her in out of the way rooms and try
o capture her for a FrOchard in THE
Mary Stuart for a benefit. But she
outs on her iron spectacles and raps on
Ter table with her wrfnlxled knuckles,
md says: ''Gott in himnel my child! t
What for shall I come again to what
las forgotten me?"
In such figure dramatic art, such
IS We have it, may mark the end not
70 much of q career as of an epoch. At
he grave of Janauschek histrionism
nay we'll stand uncovered and wonder
we have not buried in one tomb Mary
stuart. Brunhilde, Medea, and Deborah.