BE AT RICE

Mademoiselle , stage name of Marie Be at rice Binda ( dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence ). b. Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Hay market theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in Our Friends , The Sphinx , Frou-Frou and other translations from the French. d. 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. The Stage i , 61, 63 (1874), portrait ; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 388–90.