Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-11 | Page 4 | Mme. Rhea's Bones Were in Potter's Field

MME RHEAS RHEA'S BONES WERE IN POTTERS POTTER'S PO TER'S FIELD FIEL D Dt Ds It is not generally generall known that i iwas It t was due to Norman Hacketts Hackett's s effort efforts s that tho the bones of the great French Frenc h actress Mme me Rhea were rescued rescue hd d from the Potters Potter's field Just outside 0 of or f Paris and buried burled in consecrated consecrate d fd ground When hen Mr Ir Hackett was Mas a student t In to the late University of oC Michigan at Ann Arbor Mme lane Rhea met tract him and heard him read pas passages passage geH of oC plays which pleased le her so 80 much that sho she engaged him to join jolty her compa company This was I Mr Ir Hacketts Hackett's first en engagement a For three c seasons ho played with Madame Rhea and learn learned from her the rudiments rudi rudi- ments of oC his profession A i. i few years n ago o Madame died In abject poverty po and was burled In the Potters Potter's Ibid Held As soon Boon n as aA Mr lr Hackett Hack Hack- ett knew of oC It h he organized ed a series I f I f to f tiA J Io 11 J I of or benefits for the purpose of I sUi sufficient funds to raising rescue lescue Madame Madame's remains 8 fr from m their th objectionable it In ing place bur bury resting rest rest- thorn them proper properly In n consecrated conI con con- ground and erect over them I a Suitable monument to marl mark the where the spot noted actress lies Not only did Mr Hackett raise i necessary funds fund but he constituted the himself a a. COmmittee or of one to take the money mone to France where he tended the and the reI ro- ro I p r e h w I burial ancI waited I Marbie le shan shaft until he s saw the theof I ot of her whom he mark the resting resting- teem before heM held In such hl high h C J returning I renew hIs to America to I I