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    • Subject Terms:
      PARIS (France); FRANCE
    • Subject Terms:
      PHAEDRA (Play); JUDITH (Theatrical production)
    • Subject Terms:
      RISTORI, Adelaide
    • Abstract:
      Adelaide Ristori has appeared in two of her great parts, "Phaedra" and "Judith." In the former, she is famous as the reputed rival of Rachel the peerless. French criticism is answerable, of course, for this reputation. But the French critics are inconstant. At the time of Ristori's appearance in Paris, Rachel was unpopular; her detractors were the majority. Ristori's conception of the character was unlike Rachel's, for no one actor or actress has the monopoly of a róle, or the right to decide which conception is or is not the just one. She represents herself with great breadth and power and brilliancy, a richly endowed Italian actress.