The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-09-08
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
lmH.H. ROBINSON,
PUBlL-IsHFR, l-l97if r. AND PROPRIETOR


lANhaHlhNtu ilhiu lnt Noulltf ueA Ituts I MS
LONDON. July 2l.-1How shall we de-
scribe the Impression we fccoiYcd ON hear
ing Jenny Llhd at ST. Janies Hall last
week, inlM, rihurSullivan's conccrtY
- We ha,l not ktlt'nJ Jenny Hind itir more
than eighteen years, AT that time she was
the Idol of tue public :we were then at
Vienna Day aud night thousands of
people were collected around Ia place Gtd-
bon where she was stopping. The Illus
trioms cantatriQe was then In the zenith of
her fame. The police themselves could not
disperse the crowd, tot'they were also un-
der the magieian's Ispcll One of our
friends cosibdred tlils1 power of fascination
to that Of Orpheus, who could subdue even
ierocious hehdslI % ff.lt
La Mallbran did not meet with a success
more enthusiastic. " ,u.
Az that timeTwo arc still speaking of
twenty years agoAJeUty Find visited
America with Benedict ahd Barnum
| What u reception! NpVer did ouceu on
her first entry into her Kingdom receive
such welcome. This ovation was spon-
| taneOus. r.IIlif g
When thcicaptatrice eptered u city-will
one believe itY--thc bells on all the public
buildings rang out one United greeting.
and the people formed In double rows To
let this queen of soIig pass between them
Barnun, the King of Pun, would not
sell the tickets for Miss Lind's lconcert at
the music storesr-he put them up at auc-
ton, and, thanks 10 this means, realized
fabulous Sims. People engaged stats scy-
carl weeks In advance; they bought them
for their weight In gold. IfI tI.
! Roartlste that we know ever met with
such brilliant success. We were young ut
that time, and on hearing the Swedish
| Nightinghie," We Thought we had never
known till that moment what the human
iNoice was. Was II a woman who was
singingY The angels In heaven could not
have softer or more delicious notes What
vigorous. ragisbingi ftnlness IL we may
be allowed To connect those two adiectiVcs.
what an angelic expression That woid
alone-''angel''--su up Jenny Lind she
Is an angel" said everybody, aud no one
could say IL cnough. ..
Her voice was ylrginity. We have said
That the first time we heard Jenny Lind
was at Vienna; she was then in the iullneSs
OF her power. Ten years after we saw her
again, still as beautiful grmd and sublime
as ever.
Last week Jenny Lind was To make her
appearance in London, in NJ. Sullivan's
concert.
We Imagined a talent so imperial conld
never be dhninislInds " hat n cruel drccp-
ton! II was no longer Jenny Iiud-it was
Madame ind-Goldschmidt We believed
we should see the goddess OF song. but alas
we found ourselves AL the play of Il great
actress, with voice worn out, dead! Moth
ing nothing .t0r- s.,.....If.
Charles Dickens, Ia his "OId Curiosity
Shop" describes an old woman who, for
forty years, wears mourning for her lover
When hcdied. they were both young and
beautiful, Aftcr his DEATH the ipconsoa-
bic woman went every day to weep over
his tomb, Years rendered her old ahd de-
eiepid but In the mind of the poor deludcd
soul. her bel0yedis always young. What
would she say ii he should ISSUE from his
tomb old and uglyy
SLID would receive pretty mitcl the same
Impression that was produced upon us by
the shadow of denny Lind. Is IL her
shadow, eyeny
We went again, nm enthusiast, to hear
The swedish Nightingale, y aud We found
poorworld! u
Perhaps she remembers a itje. cireum-
stance pretty we'll known in her day in
Germany.
Miss Lind was at The time IN yi,nna
she was then IN the full blast OF her glory.
Hundreds of admirers. with shouts Of tri-
ufnph, led her TO the thcater and back. and
|remaiAesi under her windows TALL night.
Places were unattainable except 10 purses
well filled, One day an old woman pre-
sented herself at Jenny Lind's hotel and
ltpHtatSu PfIulHSloh 10 kpeak 10 her. 1hp
illustri0us Gantatricc was at that moment
with Meycrbeor The old woman was In
troduced, and asked in u trembling voice
for ticket to the evenings entertainment.
Miss Lind Immediately Slipped two in her
hand. ia . nhHl .ul .i.'... 1f.rIi...i .......|
4. "MadehloiscIle," said the old woman. ~
am poor, miserable and unknown now, hut
formerly bore name as illnstriuus as
yours. ! was like, you. queen OF soHg-I
have. had, like you, my admirers. but age
has destroyed my voice. and my beauty
neglect, Oblivion has come, that death of
artists, q thousand times more terrible than
death itselfM s'i .li
Jenny Lind and Mcycrbcer immedlntely
demanded her name. That iiaIne / have
myself Forgotten, Us familiar As ID was at
Vienna at the time this Incident tramspirrd
there; lremember the fAct, however, that
this woman created in Germany the role of
Panama ig, the Enchanted Flute.
cite this anecdhte because II returned
iHInIesiiately to my memory whcn heard
Jenny Land at St. James Hail. YI
E Why have nnt great artists the courage
to quit the seslte the moment their pres
tlge vanisiies, thia the public may moi br
allowed tOtwitnesis the sofrOwfnl spectacle
Of n slecayetl taiHnts IL Is paiuhIi Ia break
the statne np0il its pedestal. uIlsi iH.
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