The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

benefit Of the Confederate prisoners In which
Miss Alice Fleury and Miss Emma Bournos
| participated that being their first appear.
| ance In public and both Of them
| created quite sensation by their
rare display Of natural gifts and
musical talent. The immense success they
their lives. Miss Emma Bournos shortly
afterwards started for Paris for the purpose
OF pursuing her musical studies, but, stopping
at Havana on her way, she met with rich
creole planter who became enamored of her
charms, and asked for and obtained her hand
thus begging pardon for the irreverent meta
phor) the bishel Of hymen extinguished there
and forever the light Of that promising artis-
tic career.
Miss Alice Fleury tarrled longer, but went
much further. She started only In the veal.
1905, after having welded a mtisic-loving
physician, who, perhaps, lacked not the intel
ligence to appreciate that he was winning d
golden prize, and took her over to Europe
TO complete her musical education. At Paris
she sang before the celebrated Duprez. who
greatly admired her talent; thence, en-
eouraged by universal praise, she started for
Milan, where she made her debut on the stage
with tremendous success. She then visited
Constantinople, Alexandria in Egypt and
Genoa, followed everywhere by applauding
and admiring crowds, and proceeded to
Madrid, where the excited and enthusiastic
Dons went SO far as to compare her TO the
celebrated Pence, which, with these dilettanti.
was as much us to crown her fair brow with
immortal laufels
After her triumph in Spain she returned
TIA Italy, where new victories awaited her.
Thence our heroine went to Russia. There
the subjects OF the Gar paid her the eompli-
ment Of preferring her In most Of her parts to
the renowned Lucca, the idol OF Northern
dilettanti, particularly in ''1'Africane
As we do not intend TO give here q full his
tory Of the life of this charming actress, we
regretfully skip over several years of her bril-
liant, yet scarcely begun career, and join her
once more at the "Teatro de la Scala, In Ha-
vana, where the appreeiative public went era
zy over her singing. All the papers were full
of her praise, the painters and photographers
fought for the privilege Of reproducing her
picture, and bravos flowers and presents were
showered upon her by the enthusiastic Dons.
She has now reached the eliminating
point of her respondent career; she is to be
one Of the stars Of the Italian opera at Paris.
and oil the Parisian journals with one voice
predict that she cannot fail Of obtaining there
Il success at least equal to her late triumph In
Havana. II has been our good fortune to
sec her and hear her sing, before the
sanction and plaudits Of the world had
crowned her talent with the encircling
aureole of fame, and this much wo may
sincerely say: She is, like the other ladies'
of her family, n beautiful woman, beau
tiful especially In the tone, expression and,
we may say, eloquenco of her countenance.
Her. voice Is pure. plant, correct and full
OF scope, and her slightest movement is
full OF that majestic dignity and artistic grace
which immortalized Rachel. None, II we may
believe the utterances of the European pa
pers, can perform as well as she In the fourth
act of ''La Favorite," tho second act of Ia
Juive' and that gem Of tho musical series, the
last net Of the "Ballo In Maschera" We
hope that New Orleans will return TO its for
mer days Of splendor, II it were only for tho
sake OF our possessing again in our midst
and of applauding from tho benches Of our
own Opera House the talented singing OF our
charming and now illustrious country