Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-04
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Patti's Return to Paris.

Patti's Return to Paris. l lRichard Whiteing in New York worldI
 Patti has come back to the conquest of
 Paris She is to give series of twenty pGe- I formances at the Gaite, and the first of them took place on Saturday night They are
 bringing in 50, 900 francs night, but in Paths plans they are to bring in much more pre-
 cious reward than money, and that is her vic- tory over the prejudices of the Faubourg.
 Patti, as explained to you some time ago, is | at war with arstocratic society in Paris. Aris- tocratlc society has taken up the cause of her l husband and has slighted her. She lives only l to triumph over it. She assumes the offen- | sive in this war the other side is strictly on
 defensive of cold disdain. It noticed her before the late scandal since then it has quite | ignored her socially. She gets no invitations
 to great houses, only the offers of engage
 ments to sing there at salary and this
 let down from the position of an equal to
 that of paid entertainer cut her to the l core. It is the punishment for her offense 1 that Patti finds harder than she can bear, There is one way to escape from tito appeal as 1t were to universal suffrage from the verdict of this selsc5 and prejudiced circle.
 to make herself popular with the messes, and
 to compel the others to do her homage on the
 penalty of being left out in the cold. This has 1 brought her to Paris, and the knowledge of it
 gave peculiar interest to the scene of Satur- day night. The composition of the house exactly indi- oated the state of the conflict. It was SONY, but it was not the audiance of the old palmy days. It was richer. but it was not so select and exclusive. The Princess Mathild was there, still that is not
 the Faubourg. Mrs. Mackay, Mrs. Huugerford,
 with bevy of young girls around them, filled
 box with brilliants and good looks. The
 Duchess Montmorency was nearer the mark
 that Patti aimed at still one swallow does not
 make 6 summer. Dumas could not fail first
 reproduction of La Traviata, being as the
 writer of the s'Lady of the Oamelias," the
 father of the piece. Troubetzkoi and Ger
 nuschi, though distinguished, are strangers,
 and do not count in any estimate of the suf-
 frages of French society. Giardin is French prince indeed, but only prince of journal ists. Dore was there as 8 matter of course he has cherished romantic attachment for Patti from the very moment she came out-it is beginning to be bad taste t. say how many years ago. He painted her portrait and he offered to marry her. She might have done
 worse.
 It is too early to say that Patti conquered all along the line the other night. Yet most of the papers say it for all that. If you live here long enough you will learn not to mind them. The house was cold on her entry. The truth is every section of French society has it's grievances against her. If the uppermost one that peoples her ideal heaven-has been chilled by her treatment of De Caux the others are annoyed to think that she has been
 
 eleven years, and she has not sung continu- ously here for all that time. From the firstit has been Pattis misfortune to give offenss in this way. It was not Paris that applauded her first in Europe, but London. Paris had sim ply to confirm 8 verdict, and since the fall of the empire Patti has found gold and enthusi- asm in almost every other great capital of Eu- rope. She is the spoiled child of Vienna and St. Petersburg; ESQ Paris is little jealous of their hold upon her. Some people rejoice to observe that her opera dresses made in Vien- na do not fit we'll A difference in the man. ner of her singing may account for the rela- tive want of enthusiasm on Saturday night The voice is still as fine soprano as ever, but the mood in which she sings is no longer the same. Her style is more severe she no longer executes her daring roulades. She is more simple it is the difference between @ Greek temple and building of the Renaissance In the old days she was incarnate cheerful ness now this last has gone out of her style because it has gone out of her life. She is a sad woman trying to be gay. As the evening wore on she seemed to recover this, as re- and by one or two brilliant eff forts reused the audience to something like the enthusiasm of the past. She had more than one triple recall. The other one who shares the honors of public attention with her sat smirking in the stalls. She did not try the daring experiment of having him to sing with her. The actual tenor on service was 8 pitiful nonentity, who seemed to have had in structions not to touch her on pain of instant dismissal She dragged him before the foot lights to share the triumph of one recall but not hand was raised She is growing stout er-more matronly in build-and, terrible but true, she has slight mustache.
 The papers will tell you that it was the greatest of all possible successes. They had made up their minds it must be so in advance and no doubt they had good reasons for doing SO. Huge stores of puffery had been accumu- ofa1 "a If they are now being discharged. Some of them are extremely curious in effect whatever we may think of the motive of them, and I so much like the Figaro's account of Patti's eat ing and drinking and, in fact, of her whole domestic life here in Paris that translate it The article is called "The Fly giene of a Goddess" and thus it runs. You will perceive that the reporter seems to have enjoyed the privilege of entering the lady's house before she rose on the morrow of her first appearance. Yesterday morning." he says. 'tat I030 and a few minutes Mime. Adeli- na Patti, who two days since had left her apartments in the Hotel Bedford to take pos session of charming little private house in the Rue Montalivet, No. 5, awoke for the first time in her blue and white bedroom fresh and new. She rang for Caro- that it to say Caroline, her ~ confidential maid, and Oaro came in with her cup of chocolate smoking and per- tuned and with the journals filled with the record of her triumph. The sun was shining through the blinds, but the joy of that outer world was as nothing to the felicity of her who had gone to sleep the night before era dled by the echo of the applause of an enthu- siastic host, and who awoke to find this sec ond echo of it in the papers. When she came in at night after the per formance, bearing a load of bouquets of all kinds, she found avalanche of flow CTS and cards which had been left at the house during her absence. Then with her nerves relieved of a great strain, with her self-loye satisfied, her spirit calmed, she sat down to supper with the appetite of one who has just come victoriously out of @ terrible trial, and has two days of preparation for an- other To tell the truth, though it may de- stroy some poetic ideals, when Patti is not in is to say, when she is not to sing in the evening-she has 8 first-ra appe- .ite. Underdone roast beef, grilled fllets, juicy meats of all kinds appear in profusion on her table, together with peculiar soup of garlic, which she is simply mad about, and which cook of genius invented at her suggestion during her last stay in London. On he singing days she eats sparingly and trains solid meal. It is composed of eggs and meat very rarely of vegetables-washed down with Bordeaux and seltzer water. Breakfast over she goes to bed and sleeps for two hours. At four she gets up, dresses, and if the wealth sr is fine takes a drive. On coming back she sits down to the piano and exercises her voice for an hour. Soon after that it is time to set put for the theater. She takes cup of beef tea, nothing more solid, and touches nothing more till her return, when she sups to make ID for not having dined, This is her way of keeping her voice in good order, and she fol- ows it with the strictest regularity. One of her fancies is never to speak in the morning before she has had her chocolate. As soon as ,he has swallowed that she tries her voice by shouting for her maid as loudly as she can when she shouts Oaro (from whom the re- porter probably had the whole account) she makes the windows rattle.
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