The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-20
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ThN Arrival Of Milo. Eevadn at New York
! Tho Rapture Of M American Slnsor, III {
Stepping Foot on ncr Native Soil
After mn Absence or Eight Years.
NEw YonE, Nov. lO.-On table thu
had been laid for II late breakfast in q pri
vatc parlor OF the Clarendon, about moor
yesterday, there were dishes which l,ort
unmis,akablo evidence OF having beor
used for hash, fried oysters and "lnush.'
A light looking young lady, who rose tc
greeta reporter, followed his eyes TO the
table, and said with jolly laugh:-
| H"Ies, ! don'tdoubt bu. you're awiully
shocked to learn that prima donna
doesn't breakfast oil lilies and similar
aesthetic food, but the fact Is just this
I've been away from America for eight
years and l'yn Just been dying for some
real homclike American dishes, and When
larrived All hour ago just ordered these,
and TINT even before I washed INV face''
too, 7and another merry laugh caused ths
VISITOR to feel at once very much af home
and rs though he had known tho young
lady for q liftlilnc-tbat Is. forher lifetime,
which had not been very long. .Se}gi'
hcyoung lady was Mile. Nevada, who
had just arriyedon the Aurania from Eng.
iand, and who, Under the management Of
Colonel Alapleson, is expected TO share
the honors with Pntti, incidentally being
depended upon by tho gallant Colonel 10
soften the obduratc hearts OF the Academy
directors and bring peace and content.
imcnt once more ~ Tho director u Her
Majcstys Opera Company. "lllic. Neva.
da" is her stage name, her rcal name, us
she "inade no bones"' about telling, being
Miss Emma Wixom. but some oflhc Con.
tlnental operate managers would now and
then get tit "Vixen' und notifications
thereof; SO, submitting to tho necessities
d the stage and prompted By feeling
ofthorough Amelicallisnn, she had adopted,
for.stage purposes, the name OF her native
State, lor she was born in mining town
Of Nevada twenty-five years ago.
A MlssliAr At TIE START. ~, h;
Blessed with beautiful voice, she had,
when girl Of fourteen, upon graduating
from the Mills Seminary, in California,
induced her father, DR.. William Wallace
Wixom, to permit her to go abroad to
study. She made one Of aparty OF twelve
Young ladies' who accompanied Dr. Ebell.
The Doctor died just before Hamburg was
reached, however. He was foun,l to Il,
insolvent and to have spent most OF tho
money intrustcd to hin by Ills pu,iis,
Eleven OF them were discouraged aud
went home by the next steamer. Miss
Whom, however, pluckily determined
that, being there, she would carry out her
cherished wish. She, could have rot
money by cabling TO her father for it., lJu,,
she was afraid that lie might, OH learning
of her Strengthened circumstances, cable
10 her to return home. She did not, there.
fore cable him, but realizing enou. III from
her tutors wreck to carry her to Vienna,
she presented herself before the celebrat.
cd teacher, Nine. Alarchesi.
"Why, my child" said the Madame
You are too young; but now that you are
here We will see"
coME,To HISS ONLY TO APPLAUD.
Two years and 4 half later the Madame
did see her pupil make n successful debut
in la somnambula" in London, and after
that swing like q bright star through the
principal cities OF Europe, meeting with
such reception as perhaps no American
prima donna had ever. experienced be-
lore. Even in Italy,. the home Of song,
the people called her ''ttie sweet nishtin-
gale of California" In 1881 Verdi WINS
appealed to to name the songs.ress WHO
should open the great national exhibition
at Milan, and he responded, Mile.
Nevada" "Dut," said some, ''shc is too
young and, besides, she is an American"
Either OF these objections, but particularly
the second one, WAS fatal in the mind OF
many Of the Alilanese, and they went TO
the opera house prepared to "kill''' the
presnmptuons young American cantatrlce.
Her first note, however, surprised them
out OF their evil intentions, and though
they went 10 liiss they remained 70 Justify
shout "Brayo!" y 49,,
II was very much the same Mt the trien-
ninl Norwich festival which occurred lust
month, where Mile. Nevada was the one
ratio s.nr. Some Of the papers unl:indly
spoke OF "the little Americdn sirl"twhto
wnsto tnke the place TINT any ftl,e great
prima donnas Of Europe would have been
glad to fill. But she sang twice a day for
live days, and when the fts,ival.was over
she was hcsiesc.t@ by ilnpresarios who
would give her any terms.
"ies, I've been d,ing awiully indepcn-
dent American things III England tand
elsewhere" she said, in merry dcprcca
tion, when the reporter asked her about
these events; and then she became seri
ous for II moment and added, ,"but still
God has been good to me, and trust TINT
may meet with rs kindlya reception
from my own people as did from stran-
gers. a
"DoN'r SAY III DELICATE" ", ~
/. In person Mile. Nevada is petite. In
deed, she begged Of the reporter, Don't
say AIN delicate, now will you ?" and told