her performance attracted the most fashionable
metropolitan audiences for a considerable
time. Following this engagement she
appeared at Richardson's Theater, at Bartholomew
Fair, and afterwards toured England
in the company of Signor Germondi, who
exhibited a troupe of wonderful trained dogs.
One of the canine actors was billed as the
``Russian Moscow Fire Dog, an animal
unknown in this country, (and never exhibited
before) who now delights in that element, having
been trained for the last six months at very
great expense and fatigue.''

Whether Girardelli accumulated sufficient
wealth to retire or became discouraged by the
exposure of her methods cannot now be
determined, but after she had occupied a prominent
position in the public eye and the public
prints for a few seasons she dropped out of
sight, and I have been unable to find where
or how she passed the later years of her life.

I am even more at a loss concerning her
contemporary, John Brooks, of whom I have no
other record than the following letter, which
appears in the autobiography of the famous
author-actor-manager, Thomas Dibdin, of the
Theaters Royal, Covent Garden, Drury Lane,
Haymarket and others. This one communication,