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THE INCOMPARABLE ADAH MENKEN A Southern Actress Who Won International Fame In the Jewish section of the famous Fere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris there stands a granite eol- umn. One side hears the words: “thou knowest”, and its other side the inscription: “Adah Isaac Men ken,horn in Ixmisiana, United States of America, died in Paris, August 10, 1868.” Under that slab of grey stone lie the mortal remains of the first American whom all Paris loved, flu* incomparable Adah Isaac Menken dancer, actress, poetess, sculptress and Jewess a magnetic and colorful personality who com- 1 lined in herself the talents of a Dorothy Parker, the bravado of a Mac West, the daring of an Amelia Karhart and the physical attraction of a Peggy Hopkins Joyce. In her day this beautiful, exciting and bril liant woman was the toast of two continents, but today, a hundred vears after her birth, she is virtually unknown. Horn in New Orleans in 1885, she was the oldest daughter of an Irish immigrant merchant and his Creole wife. Christened Dolores Adelaide McCord, she was something of a child prodigy. Before she was nine she knew Latin, English, French and Spanish and when she was twelve had translated the Iliad in to French. Schooled in the dance, her grace and beauty won her a stage engagement in a dancing act at the French Opera House at New Orleans. Still in her teens, she appeared with her sister Josephine under the name of Bertha Theodore. Bernard Postal recalls the turbu lent career oj the American Jewish Beauty, Adah Isaac .tfenken, the C ome-1 n-1 o-See-.Ife-Somettme- Girl" of the ’60s, who was a most interesting personality as you will discover. Leaving the theatre for a while, she went to work as an F.nglisb and Spanish teacher in a girls’ school. Peaching was dull business to her and in 18/>4 she joined a “traveling hippodrome" and l>ecamc a proficient equestrienne. Adah soon tired of being a circus per former and in 1853 she appeard as premiere danseuse at the opera house in Mexico City. On her way back to the United States she spent some time at Liberty, Texas, editing a weekly newspaper. There she was captured by Indians, es caping death by a ruse. When she was ^1 she met Alex ander Isaac Menken, a devout Jewish musician and merchant from Nashville. They fell desperately in love and were married in Galves ton April 3, 18a(). Adah publicly embraced Judaism and although By Bernard Postal she was later divorced from Men ken, never abandoned her Judaism. It was then that she adopted fhc name Adah Isaac Menken, a name which subsequently brought her the title of “the divine Jewess.” Marital ties l>egan to bore her lni- fore long and she permitted a quarrel with her husband over her taste for cigarettes to break up their marriage. After her divorce she never saw Menken again. Soon after she made her debut as an actress in Milman’s tragedy, “Fazio”, in New Orleans. Later she played with a Shakespearean troupe, supporting the famous tragedian, James Murdoch, and also appeared in Havana. Although her acting received increasingly impressive notices, she <1 id not really get warm praise as an actress until she ap|>eared in Albany on June 7, 18(51, in a revival of "Ma- zeppa.” Instantly she was a suc cess. Critics raved over her pale l>eauty, her form, her dark hair and flashing eyes. Invitations poured in for her to play in every city of America. Her fame also spread to the Continent. During the 18fl0\s there was scarcely a person who had not heard of her sensational performance in “Ma- zeppa", in which she rode up a mountain strapped to the back of a white horse. In previous per formances of “Mazeppa" the cus tom had been to use a man or a dummy in the thrilling horse-leap scene, but Adah wanted the sensa tion to he hers. In this scene she wore tights, the first woman in the history of the American stage to do so. The effect on the public was startling. She became the center of an international controversy. Moralists and purists denounced her and demanded her arrest, w hile art lovers ralliral to her support. It was at this time that she married John C. Heenan, then the heavyweight champion of the world. Later she also Irccame the wife of Orpheus Keer, the satirist of the Civil War, and James Barclay, California shipping magnate and Wall Street promoter. But none of her marriages equalled in happiness {Please turn to Page 14) TANTALIZING FLAVOR NONE CAN IMITATE! BEST INGREDIENTS! BEST TASTE! BEST LIKED! You’d know right away why Heinz Tomato Ketchup is the most popular brand in the whole world, if only you could see us make it! We use fine, ripe, pedigreed toma toes grown from prize seedlings out of Heinz own green houses in soil tested by our agricultural experts. 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