Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-20
BACK TO her HOME.
Mile. Nevada Returns to Amsrica
After Eight Years Absence
JOY OF THE YOUNG AsTlsTE
Her Short But Brilliant operate Career
in Europe.

breakfast in q private parlor OF the Claren-
don, about noon yesterday, there were dish
IS which bore unmistaksble evidence OF
having been used for hash, fried oysters and
much" A light looking young lady, who
rose to greet a Herald reporter, followed
his eyes to the table, and said with a jolly
laugh:
YES, | don't doubt but you're awfully
shocked to learn that a prima donna doesn't
breakfast on lilies and SIMILAR aesthetic
food, but the fact is Just this-Fve been
away from America for eight years and I've
lust been dying for some real, henielike
American dishes, and when / arrived an
hour ago / Just ordered these, and that be-
fore even washed my face, too" and an.
other merry laugh caused the visitor to feel
at once very much at home and as though
be had known the young lady for q lifetime
that is, for her lifetime, which had not
been very long.
The young lady was Mile. Nevada, who
had Just arrived on the Aursnis from Eng
land, and who, under the management of
Colonel Mapleson, is expected to share the
honors with Patti, incidentally being de-
pended upon by the gallant Colonel to
soften the Obdurate hearts Of the Academy
directors and bring peace and contentment
once more to the director Of Her Msjestys
Opera Company. mile. Neyada" is her
stage name as she made no bones" about
telling, being Miss Emma Wixon. But
some Of the Continental operate managers
would now and then get it Vixen" and
notifications thereof; so, submitting to the
necessities of the stage and prompted by a
feeling of thorough Americanism, she had
adopted, for stage purposes, the name Of her
native State, for she was born in I mining
town Of Nevada twenty two years ago.
AMISHAP AT THE START.
Blessed with a beautiful voice, she had,
when a girl Of fourteen, upon graduating
from the Mills Seminary, in California, in
duced her father, DR.. William Wallace Wix-
on, to permit her to go abroad to study.
She made one of a party OF twelve young
ladies who accompanied DR.. Ebbell. The
Doctor died Just before Hamburg was
reached, however. He was found to be in
solvent and to have spent most of the mon
ey intrusted TO him by his pupils. Eleven
of them we're discouraged and went home
by the next steamer. Miss Wixon, however,
pluckily determined that, being there, she
would carry out her cherished wish. She
could have got money by cabling to her
father for it, but she was afraid that he
might, on learning Of her Strengthened cir
cumstsnces, cable to her to return home.
She did not, therefore, cable home, but re-
aliziDg enough from the tutors wreck to-
carry her to Vienna, she presented hersell
before the celebrated teacher, Nine. Mar
chest.
Why, my child" said the Madam. you
are too young; but now that YOU are here
We will see"
Two years and a half later the Madame
did see her pupil make a successful debut
in La Sonnambula,' in London, and after
that swing like a bright star through the
principal cities of Europe, meeting with
such a reception as perhaps no American
prima donna had ever experienced before.
Even in Italy, the home of song, the people
called her "the sweet nightingale of Cali
fornia." In 1881 Verdi was appealed to to
name tho songstress Who should open the
great national exhibition at Milan, and he
responded, Mile. Nevada" But" said
some, she is too young; and, besides, she
is an American" Either one of these OBJ
iectious, but particularly the second one,
was fatal in the minds of many of the Mi
lsnese, and they went to the opera house
prepared to xiii the presumptuous young
American cantatrice. Her first notes,
however, surprised them out Of their evil
intention, and though they went to hiss
they remained to Justify shout Bravo
1t was very much the same at the trien-
NAL Norwich festival, which occurred last
month, where Mile. Nevada was the oper.
attic star. Some Of the papers unkindly
spoke OF "the little American girl who was
to take the place that any of the great
prima donuss of Europe would have been
glad to FIJI. But she sang twice a day for
i've days, and when the festival was over
she was besieged by impresSarlos who would
give her any terms.
Yes, I've been doing swfully independ-
ent American things in England and else
where" she said, in merry depreciation when
the reporter asked her about these events;
and then she became serious for q moment
and added, but still God has been good to
me, and l trust that l may meet with as
kindly q reception from my own people as
did from strangers
"pON'r SAY IN DELICATE"
In person Nile. Nevada is petite. Indeed
she begged of the reporter, Don't say | am
delicate, now will your and told Of some of
the English reporters who seemed dissp-
| pointed because she did notpOssess the 70,
business Of Parepa Rosa. In manner she
is sprightly and vivacious. and in sentiments
she is above all else enthusiastically aud in
teusely American. To be sure, most prima
| COMMAS seem to think it the correct thing.
Immediately on landing, to express their
delight at visiting America, but there was
running all through Nile, Nevada v~ivacity
a hearty, gir!iSh glee strevisiting her native
land that Was u~uuistakably genuine.