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Grand Opera House. Hortense Rhea, who will appear as Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing," Friday evening, November 2Ú, at the Grand opera house, is by birth a Belgian, by education a French woman and by affinity an American. Her career affords a happy illustration of the proverb that "Art knovvs no country." Her dramatic studies were conducted under the direction of Beauvallet and Gott, two of the most celebrated socittaires of the Comedie Francaise, and her earliest artistic successes were . made in Paris. But greater triumphs were subsequently achieved in St. Petersburg, where she held the position of leading lady of the famous French comedy company organized under imperial auspices The assassination of the Czar, Alexander II, caused the disbandment for a time of the Comedie Francaise, of St. Petersburg, and Rhea then determined to try her fortunes in England. In London she studied Shakespearean roles with John Ryder (the tutor of Adelaide Neilson and a former colleague of Mucready), and made a successful debut as Beatrice in "Much Ado Abmit Nothing." This appearance led to her first tour of America in i88i-'82, and since then the American public have enjoyed the monopoly of Mme. Rhea's services. Seats on sale at Watts' jewelry store; prices 50 cents, 75 cents and Si. 00.