Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
TEN DOLLARS TO HEAR PATTI
Gossip About the Famous Little
PrimR DOnna's Coming Visit.

Dramatic News.l
AdelinaPatti will begin her Amer
lean tour on the 9th of November.
She will be accompanied by Signor
Nicolini, of course, as tenor. The
tour will consist of forty nights only,
] two concerts a week being given, the
last one on the 3ist Of March. Nine.
Patti has stated that she does not in
tend to fatigue herself, for as the au-
dience are expected to pay a high
price, she must appear on every occa-
sim at her very best. Therefore, I'M
der no circumstances will she be in
duced to give more than two perform
anceS in each seven days. In most
cases Mondays and Thursdays will be
the days selected. 1t is decided on
Tuesday that in no instance would
the price of tickets be more than $40
each, running from that to 50. The
original project was to charge $50 each
for the prime seats, but after M.
Belveau, who will manage the enter
prise, had come to America, he found
that such plan would not work.
Four concerts will be given in
New York, three in Boston, two in
Philadelphia, two in Chicago, two in
st. Louis. with possible return to
New York for three nights. Outside
Of these no city will have more than
one concert. This will be found to
be sufficient, both BIZ the people and
the management. While NJ Belveau
is the direct IN inagerof the enterprise
he is associated with a number of
gentlemen in France, among them M.
Halanzier, the ex-director Of the Paris
Grand Opera. 1t is said that these
gentlemen do not work for money, but
purely to oblige Nine. Patti. Very
philanthropic on their part in all con-
science. On each evening Nine. Patti
will sing two songs with one encore.
Further than that she does not intend
to go. Considerable difficulty has been
experienced by NJ. Juiguet in making
out the route, for managers do not fiDd
it convenient to cut into their weeks
to give one performance only. The
consequence is that in great many
places Nine. Patti did not appear in
the best theaters. fact areatly to be
regretted, no doubC If the tour is
up to the expectations of the prima
donna, she may honor us with another
visit next year, when she will sing in
opera.
But there is another point in this
matter which neither Mr.. Halanzier.
M. b ,lveau, M. JuigneS, nor the diva
herself has calculated upon, and that
is contract she made many years ago
with Max Maretzek. That gentleman
has prior claim to the services of
Patti in America as against all others.
He has kept his contract safely slowed
away for some fifteen or sixteen wears
and has made no secret Of the fact.
that whenever Patti came here he,
should enforce his claims against h1,r
by every possible legal method. His
contract is bona fde one, made in
good faith, and Patti will unduestion-
ably be compelled to fulfill it or make
a. pecunlary compromise with Mr.
Maretzek. Years ago, when the Stra.
keschs made their agreement with her
it was among their calculations to nav
Mr.. Maretzek $4,000 to abandon his
claims and ENGAGED him for leader az
we'll. What Patti and Belveau may
now be inclined to do nobody knows.
but Maretzek has been looking to the,
money he will get out of the affair as
q maintenance for his old age.