DEJAZET, PAULINE VIRGINIE
French actress, born in Paris on Aug. 3o, 1798, first appeared on the stage at the age of five. In 182o she started to play soubrette and "breeches" parts at the Gymnase, with such success that such parts became known as "Dejazets." After playing at the Nouveautes and the Varietes she became manager of the Folies, renamed the Theatre Dejazet. Here, even at the age of 65, she had marvellous success in youthful parts, especially in some previously unacted early plays of Sardou. She retired in 1868, and died on Dec. 1,
Duval, Virginie Dejazet (1876), L. H. Lecomte, Un amour de Dejazet (1907), and Virginie Dejazet (19o4).
a city of De Kalb county, I11., U.S.A., on the Kish waukee river, 6om. W. of Chicago. It is on the Lincoln highway, and is served by the Chicago and North Western, the Chicago Great Western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary railways. The area is about 3 sq.m. The population was 7,871 in 1920, of whom 1,887 were foreign-born white, and was
in 1930 by the Federal census. Barbed wire was invented here and is one of the principal manufactured products. Others of importance are woven wire, staples and nails, insulated wire, pianos and piano player rolls, wagons and truck-bodies, creamery appliances and canned vegetables. The total annual value of the manufactured products is estimated at $13,000,000; retail sales at $7,000,000. The city has large dairy interests. It is the seat of the Northern Illinois State Teachers college (opened 1899), which occupies a beautiful campus of 67 acres. De Kalb was settled in 1832 and incorporated as a city in 1877. Until 1840 it was called Buena Vista.
(1596 or 1597-1667), Dutch painter, was born at Amsterdam, the son of the architect and sculptor Hendrik de Keyser. Aert Pietersz, Cornelis vanider Voort, Werner van Valckert and Nicolas Elias are accredited by different authorities with having developed his talent. De Keyser chiefly excelled as a portrait painter, though he also executed some historical and mythological pictures, such as the "Theseus" and "Ariadne" in the Amsterdam town hall. His portraiture is full of character and masterly in handling, and often, as in the "Old Woman" of the Budapest gallery, is distinguished by a rich golden glow of colour and Rembrandtesque chiaroscuro. Some of his portraits are life-size, but the artist generally preferred to keep them on a considerably smaller scale, like the famous "Group of Amsterdam Burgomasters" assembled to receive Marie de' Medici in 1638, now at The Hague museum. His pictures are in the Dresden and Frankfurt museums, in the Heyl collection at Worms, and the Liechtenstein gallery in Vienna. The National Gallery, London, owns a characteristic portrait group of a "Merchant with his Clerk"; The Hague museum, besides the group already referred to, a magnificent "Portrait of a Savant," and the Haarlem museum a fine portrait of "Claes Fabricius." At the Ryks mu seum in Amsterdam there are 12 of his works.
