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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ism that I should take the credit, I'd do my best. Of his further doings in the French capital, he wrote:— This was the day of the Congres Internationel de Droit des Femmes. . . . Mrs. Howe read a paper in French ... the language seemed to give a clearness and precision to her ideas and kept her from the clouds and she read with much dignity and sweetness. At the Theatre Francais he for the first time saw acting! ... Sarah Bernhardt seemed the legitimate successor of Rachel and Ristori—a blonde Rachel, tall and slender and stately and fearfully ill like her—but oh! such power, such expression by a glance, a whisper, a motion of the hand and such utter absence of the visibly histrionic. Normandy was the next country to be visited, and there Colonel Higginson stayed with friends, going thence to Germany. Le Manier, Penne de Pie near Honfleur, Normandy. Here I am at this perfectly charming place . . . wonderfully silent and deep, and delightful after Paris, and it<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
e Comte de Treilhard at the Ancien Cercle; afterwards went to Madame Mohl's, where I had been invited to dine, to meet among others the great Italian actress, Madame Ristori; （182–.) M. Villemain was another guest. she was still there when I arrived. In her organization and magnetic force she reminded me of Fanny Kemble and Je Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, astronomer and senator. (1811-1877.) who had a fresh and young look; dined with Appleton, and went with him to hear Ristori in Maria Stuardo. The Italian language was delicious to hear, much more than the French. It seemed to me that the beauty of her acting had not been exaggerated.marked that nous n'avons pas d'orages. Everything was very quiet. the debate was on a law regulating, courts-martial. Dined with Appleton; in the evening heard Ristori in Camilla, a piece of moderate merit, but very well acted. I did not like it so well as Maria Stuardo. May 6. Breakfasted with Mr. Senior; pleasant company a
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
ave worked a good deal, more than I expected to, and have found more than I anticipated in the Libraries, which seem to expand as I advance. . . . February 17.—. . . . . We are in the midst of the Carnival, with mild, delicious, clear weather, that makes everything gay, carries everybody into the Corso in open caleches, and fills the Villa Borghese with blue violets, and the Villa Pamphili with roses and camellias. We have a balcony in the Corso, and grow as crazy as the crowd below us. Ristori is acting, and we have a box at the theatre. The upper society is as active as the lower, mingling with it on even terms all the afternoons, and setting up for itself with dinners and balls in the evenings. . . . . It is all very strange, often a mad scene. I think I never saw so much of it before, or was so much with the people that carry it on. Certainly I never watched it so carefully, or knew so much about it, as I do now. In 1837 the amusements of the Carnival were prohibited from
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 12: the Church of the Disciples: in war time (search)
er, outwent all sectarian limits. He prized and upheld the truly devout spirits, wherever found, and delighted in the Methodism of Father Taylor. He used to say, When I want to enjoy a good warm time, I go to Brother Grimes's colored church. Although himself a Protestant of the Protestants, he entertained a sincere esteem for individuals among the Catholic clergy. Among these I remember Father Finotti as one of whom he often spoke, and who was sometimes a guest at his table. When Madame Ristori made her first visit to this country, Father Finotti entertained her one day at dinner, inviting also Governor and Mrs. Andrew. The governor told me afterward that he enjoyed this meeting very much, and described some song or recitation which the great actress gave at table, and which the aged priest heard with emotion, recalling the days of his youth and the dear land of his birth. Once, when Governor Andrew was with us at our summer home, my husband suddenly proposed that we should
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 19: another European trip (search)
in his arms at the crowning moment in order that he might better see what was going on. By a curious chance I had one day the pleasure of taking part with Madame Ristori in a reading which made part of an entertainment given in aid of a public charity. Madame Ristori had promised to read on this occasion the scene from the plMadame Ristori had promised to read on this occasion the scene from the play of Maria Stuart, in which she meets and overcrows her rival, Queen Elizabeth. The friend who should have read the part of this latter personage was suddenly disabled by illness, and I was pressed into the service. Our last rehearsal was held in the anteroom of the hall while the musical part of the entertainment was going on. Madame Ristori made me repeat my part several times, insisting that my manner was too reserved and would make hers appear extravagant. I did my best to conform to her wishes, and the reading was duly applauded. Another historic death followed that of Victor Emmanuel after the interval of a month. Pope Pius IX. had reigned
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
, 415; visits Doreas studio, 416-419; lectures in Paris, 419; president of a woman's rights congress, 420; at the Healys' ball, 421; speaks on suffrage in Italy, 422; visits Princess Belgioiosa, 422, 423; sees Umberto crowned, 424; reads with Madame Ristori, 424, 425; sees Leo XIII. consecrated, 426; meets Washington Allston, 429; first acquaintance with John S. Dwight, 435; feeling of loss at Otto Dresel's death, 438; her eldest daughter's death, 439; successes and failures of her life, 442-44203. Ripley, George, his efforts at Brook Farm, 145; reviews Passion Flowers, 228; sees the Howes and Parkers off for Cuba, 231. Ripley, Mrs. George (Sophia Dana), 296. Ripley, Mary, speaks at the woman's congress in Memphis, 389. Ristori, Mme., the actress, 264; reads Marie Stuart in Rome, 424. Ritchie, Harry, the handsome, on Gov. Andrew's staff, 266. Ritchie, Mrs., daughter of Harrison Gray Otis, 401. Rogers, Samuel, the poet, dinner at his house, 99, 100; his economical
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Foreign News and gossip. (search)
eve it has always been with the greatest reluctance that he has ever found a command forced upon him. About the Drama. Halevy's opera, "La Juivo," is to be produced a the Grand Opera to-morrow evening, for the first time in a year. Ristori has been playing for the last week at Versailles. For several years past it has always been her custom to take the Italians in May, immediately at the close of the opera season, and play a round of her characters. Last year she was not very suheatre at Versailles for a week or two and considerable numbers have gone out nightly from Paris to see her. She and Alboni have just erected each a pretty hotel on the new boulevard des Malesherbes, near the Pare de Morceaux. I understand that Ristori has abandoned the idea she had of going to America this year. At the recent annual meeting of dramatic authors and composers, the following theatrical statistics were given: The total receipts of the Paris theatres, from April 1, 1861,to Ma
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
that much mischief will be occasioned among the cotton speculators in the event of a suspension of hostilities in America. Miscellaneous. Two younger sons of the late Duke of Newcastle, who, it will be remembered, accompanied the Prince of Wales during his American tour, had a fight with carving knives recently in a London Club House, when the youngest, nineteen years of age, was killed by his brother, Lord Arthur. The Levant Herald notices the presentation by Fuad Pacha to Madam Ristori of a collar of diamonds engraved with the Sultan's own cipher, in token of his sympathy with the high arts. From an inspection of the Stratford register, it is found that Shakspeare's widow subsequently married a shoemaker of the town, named Richard James. Maximilian has been having a grand ball in his Mexican palace. The empress wore white silk embroidered in gold, a necklace of diamonds, and a sprig of green leaves in her hair. A club of French gourmets, whose members l