, 1880-05-30
Monday, May 81.

sYes.' Can you. like good girl: come to
the theatre, reheatse, and sing to-nlght:' i
will try my best And she did"
In securing the artists for the Handel tri-
ennial festival ut London in June, all but
English vocaists are to be omitted, + posi-
bic. Nine Patti, Nine. Albanl- Mr. Santley'
and Mr.. Foil are named among the engage
ments already made public.
4 New York City paper sums up the char
are three things in Cincinnati, pork, beer
and music, and the people make four. Dur
ing the greater part Of the revolving year the
people divide their attention ]udlciously pc
tween the three objects of interest within
their reach. They give their days to pork
and beer, and their nights to beer and music."
Manager Grau sums UP his season Of
French opera thus: Fourteen months, 452
performances; $3.50, GOO receipts. Mile: laola
Marie, Gregoire, and Delor1ne, and Messrs.
already been re1ngaged, and Mr. Grau has
also secured the leading opera-bontfe tenor
Of France, N. Nigri, for his next season,
which will begin at the Standard Theatre,
New York, Sept 13.
Some queer developments are made about
don lady Of beauty, wealth. and musical ac-
compishments She aspired to he leader
in the walks of musical art, and cultivated
notoriety. She lived in style in her own
mouse IN 1AvlSloch o4uale. Hft coi1ectet1
about her following Of musicians and other
artists, and gave soirees and concerts, and or
ganiZed choir which she conducted in per-
son. Ten years ago she made the acquaint-
ance of Gounod, and persuaded him to quit
his wife and Paris and come to London and
live with her and her husband. She admired
Gounod and Gounod was fascinated with
her. Their mutual affection is described as
only Platonic, but it made talk, and caused
the composer to fritter away several of his
1ncf ry-ri ftfffn 1f,H lxfor.
Ing to her sing them. at lust Gounod broke
turned to art. lie left his manuscripts with
Mrs. Weldon, surprising that he could IT.
she woad not give them up. lie
had to reWrite an opera from memory,
and replace several other valuable compost
tions in the same way, he having sold them,
reproducing them. A great deal Of trouble
and annoyance arose from his infatnati0u
with Mrs. Weldon, but finally he shook off
the bonds. performed his. contracts, and was
free: Mrs. Weldon continued her peculiar
musical career, and last year engaged her.
self and choir to give promenade concerts at
Covent Garden. The manager soon dismissed
Mrs. Weldon and her band, and she has SINCE
devoted herself to retaliation: She engaged
. private; box. and conspicuously went
through the motions Of leading the perform
ances- During the pauses she flung into the
audience thousands OF hand-bil}s detailing
her wrongs. Finally the manager refused
her admission to the theatre and she forced
her Way in and was promptly bounced y
out. EShe had the doorkeerer arrested, and
the magistrate discharged him. She then re-
| sorted to postal cards. and sent them to the
managers friends, calling him thief and 4
convicted bisanist He prosecuted her for
libel; jury convicted her, and the Judge
sentenced her to four months imprisonment,
So Mrs. Weldon has been temporarily re-
moved from her fine house III Tayistock
Square to the narrow confines of prison
rail-