[2] Odilon started acting as the apprentice of German stage actor Ludwig Barnay at his Berlin theater.
After Girardi discovered their plan, he received help from a former mistress of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Käthe Schratt.
Sometime after she divorced Rakovsky, she married Herr Flesch, the man who rescued her from a sanitarium after she was declared insane after she had paralysis due to a stroke.
Despite not many of the guests remembering Odilon's career, she received donations which also included a basket of flowers that had banknotes at the bottom of it.
[7] A Public Opinion article published in 1901 said, "Her methods are free from artificiality, and her aim is plainly a realism made effective by art".
[2] A 1902 article from the magazine Philharmonic stated, "She is said to have an enormous repertoire, her histrionic power having a wide range of expression".