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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES
under the name of Chesney Wold, is not
likely to be forgotten by any who were
so fortunate as to witness it. The French
accents and intonations of the girl were
made piquantly effective through the op-
eration of a tongue more familiar with
them than with English vocables, and the
feline malice and alertness of the char-
acter — which in the novel is scantily
outlined — were reproduced with high
picturesqueness and vivacity.
By natural association with Madame
Janauschek's achievement, there occurs to
my mind the rarest example I have known
of the fortunate fitting of an alien actor
to a part in which all his lingual imperfec-
tions made for ideal success. On the even-
ing of November 5, 1889, at the Tremont
Theatre was performed a dramatic version
of Mr. Howells's novel, A Foregone Conclusion,
with Alexander Salvini as Don
Ippolito. The play " was caviare to the
general," and was obviously deficient in
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