The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10
THE ran.yE SINGERS.
The Way Opera Operate Upon Kellogg,
Cary and EOze,
[Philadelpbla Tirnes.I

IPhlladeipnla llIOes.
Even the ordinary woman afflicted with
jealousy will generally manage 20 let folks
hear from her. but when a prima donra is
usually makes life burdensome TO herself
and sets great many people by
the ears who actually don't care q
snap for all the prlma donne this
country has ever produced or ever imported
from abroad During the opera season,
which thank goodness for the sake of peace
is now drawing TO a close. Clara Louise Kel.
logg, Annie Louise Cary and Marie Roze
have, under one management, visited
nearly ali the large cities, and, If the news
papers are to be relied upon at
all, they have carried around with them,
at great expense, one of the most
fragrant cases of jealousy ever heard Of We
should judge, without going back OF the
newspaper returns of these sweet singers
troubles, that the green-eyed rumpus be-
tween Conkling and Hayes and Blaine is
sort OF three cornered pleasantly in compar-
lson. and not by any means as likely to
undermine the republic and get US into that
horrible vortex of ruin which the stump
speakers tell so much about.
1t is greatly to be feared that kellogg has
an utterly incurable case of jealousy, having
passed restlessly into a time of life when l.
ism SO easy TO shake off the habits of a long
and useful existence. IL is automatically re-
corted thatthat really great singer quarreled
with Carey so long as there was no one else
to quarrel with, and the harmless and limo.
cert Cary gotta respite and chance to recover
somewhat from a prolonged snubbing only
after RoZe appeared upon the scene Kel-
logg apparently had her hands so full OF
Rozs that she couldn't afford to bother with
Cary. 1t doesn't seem to have taken long
for the great American prima donna to de-
clare war on the beautiful singer from
abroad and if the war was not as
bitter and spirited as it might have been,
IL was because one party seemed disin-
clned to belligerence and evidently sup
posed it was just way American singers
had. Roze paid very little attention to any,
thing until she was thrown out of her dress
ing room at Cleveland one night by kellogg,
and even then she simply threw herself
back again and the performance went on
according to the programme. Then
Kellogg's friends talked, and Roze's
friends talked the warlike sentiment
land, and the conflict took some ridicu-
lous shapes. kellogg organized a grand
flower lobby, utterly regardless of expense,
and there are sly insinuations that she
knows how to get up lobby of this kind as
well as it's possible for any one to know.
This lobby surprised kellogg, according to
arrangement, with mountains of flowers,
night or two, carrying the greenhouse pro-
duets from the stage and giving directions
to the ushers ABOUT Juggling them
back in front of the house and having
them thrown at her again, extern
porarily, as it were. The friends of Roze
ultimately tired of a one sided tribute like
this and rallied with load OF fresh blossoms
which thew shOwered upon her, and drew
kellogg to her own rescue with more flowers,
until there was corneri in the flower market
and nobody could tell for the life OF him
what would be the end of such ridiculous
doings And it will likely never end so long
as kellogg remains in the field and can find
a prima donna big enough to feed her jeal-
Ousy with.
All this was well enough in the great west.
where there is room for a tremendous con-
fict of this character. where beautiful flow
ers grow wild on the prairies, and where the
people are generally in a mood 10 fight over
anything or anybody. But some anxiety
must be felt over the transfer of the difficulty
to the columns of the New y rk papers, where
no fight is ever intended but where somebody
always gets hurt in spite of every precaution.
Ii is about time to emulate the example of
Mr.. Hayes and conciliate some This coun-
try is big enough for one prima donna, but
it is not big enough for two: probably it
never will be, and the ways and means COM
mittee of congress can do an eminent cOun-
trywoman a lasting service by imposing a
protective duty on imported prime dome.
We can't afford to have the even tempered
kellogg trifed with on her native heath; no
patriotic American will calmly submit to
that.