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SENORITA CARFANO.

The Talented Daughter of Cuba.

The strange incidents in the life of Senorita Eloade Carfano, the famous young actress now, performing at Wall's Opera House, presents a curious and interesting study. Born upon the stage and educated there, she became inspired with zeal and entered upon the thorny path of the profession she had chosen with a determination that was unalterable, and with a spirit that has never been quenched.

The personnel of Senorita Carfano is charming beyond expression. Of commanding presence, and graceful in her movements, she is a fit representative of such characters as Deborah, Thisbe, Kate Garstone, and Romco, which she has essayed with the most gratifying results.

A finished actress at the early age of twelve years, and striving after alluring fame, she left her home and triumphs in Cuba and came to this country, intending to fulfill an engagement in the contemplated Spanish theater, the consummation of which was broken up by the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. Desirous of learning the German language and customs, of which she had become enamored she crossed the Atlantic alone, and, single hand and among a strange people, unaided, and deprived even of the boon of sympathy to encourage and cheer her.
The ship in which she sailed was the Electra, which encountered a severe gale. and was shipwrecked, and during the ten days of suffering, fear, and hope that ensued Senorita Carfano was forced to don the sailor's habiliments and work at the pumps in common with the rest. Arriving in Germany at last, in spite of flood and peril, she engaged in her studies, as before stated. At the end of a year, she had so mastered the language that she appeared before an audience in the character of Leah, the Forsaken, and made a decided hit. She remained on the German boards two and a half years, making a stay of three and a half years in Germany, and then returned to the United States, finding the social element in Germany altogether too cold for her warm and impulsive nature. Upon her return to this country, she filled engagements at the Stadt Theater in New York, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee. She then commenced the study of the English language, which she sufficiently mastered in four months so as to be able to appear before an American audience at the National in Cincinnati. This is what was said of her at the time, taken from the files of the Enquirer:

“Senora Carfano made her first bow before a Cincinnati audience last evening, who assembled in large numbers to welcome the great tragedienne. Her reception was a most flattering one, and if we may judge from the frequent demonstrations of approbation, the character of the entertainment and the manner in which it was rendered, was fully up to the expectations of those present. Genius is reliant and self-sustaining, and if backed by a bold and persevering spirit, will ultimately prove triumphant in successfully combating the errors that have become legitimized by authority. Senora Carfano is an example of this. Her conception of the role of Deborah is evidently the result of an identification with the ideal of the great creator, and the interpretation is truthful. Her elocution is beyond commonplace criticism."

After a series of engagements in Philadelphia and New York, she made a tour of the West, and finally settled in San Francisco, where she remained a number of years; she then returned to the East and played as a leading lady for an entire season at De Bar's Opera.

SENORITA CARFANO.
The Talented Daughter of Cuba.
The strange incidents in the life of Senorita Eloade Carfano, the famous young actress now, performing at Wall's Opera House, presents a curious and interesting study. Born upon the stage and educated there, she became inspired with zeal and entered upon the thorny path of the profession she had chosen with a determination that was unalterable, and with a spirit that has never been quenched.

The personnel of Senorita Carfano is charming beyond expression. Of commanding presence, and graceful in her movements, she is a fit representative of such characters as Deborah, Thisbe, Kate Garstone, and Romco, which she has essayed with the most gratifying results.

A finished actress at the early age of twelve years, and striving after alluring fame, she left her home and triumphs in Cuba and came to this country, intending to fulfill an engagement in the contemplated Spanish theater, the consummation of which was broken up by the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. Desirous of learning the German language and customs, of which she had become enamored she crossed the Atlantic alone, and, single hand and among a strange people, unaided, and deprived even of the boon of sympathy to encourage and cheer her.
The ship in which she sailed was the Electra, which encountered a severe gale. and was shipwrecked, and during the ten days of suffering, fear, and hope that ensued Senorita Carfano was forced to don the sailor's habiliments and work at the pumps in common with the rest. Arriving in Germany at last, in spite of flood and peril, she engaged in her studies, as before stated. At the end of a year, she had so mastered the language that she appeared before an audience in the character of Leah, the Forsaken, and made a decided hit. She remained on the German boards two and a half years, making a stay of three and a half years in Germany, and then returned to the United States, finding the social element in Germany altogether too cold for her warm and impulsive nature. Upon her return to this country, she filled engagements at the Stadt Theater in New York, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee. She then commenced the study of the English language, which she sufficiently mastered in four months so as to be able to appear before an American audience at the National in Cincinnati. This is what was said of her at the time, taken from the files of the Enquirer:

“Senora Carfano made her first bow before a Cincinnati audience last evening, who assembled in large numbers to welcome the great tragedienne. Her reception was a most flattering one, and if we may judge from the frequent demonstrations of approbation, the character of the entertainment and the manner in which it was rendered, was fully up to the expectations of those present. Genius is reliant and self-sustaining, and if backed by a bold and persevering spirit, will ultimately prove triumphant in successfully combating the errors that have become legitimized by authority. Senora Carfano is an example of this. Her conception of the role of Deborah is evidently the result of an identification with the ideal of the great creator, and the interpretation is truthful. Her elocution is beyond commonplace criticism."
After a series of engagements in Philadelphia and New York, she made a tour of the West, and finally settled in San Francisco, where she remained a number of years; she then returned to the East and played as a leading lady for an entire season at De Bar's Opera.