Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-06
, PRlMA DONNA AND HER LOVERS.
The story Of the Way Mile. Nevada Was
WOOed and Won Gossip En- PEASANT.
Paris Letter 70 Hs Boston Herald.

n Story OF the Way Mile. Nevada Was
wooed and Won Gossip En- PEASANT.
Paris Letter 70 ms Boston Herald,
Miss Wixom and Palmer have not been
acquainted with each other many months,
and the way that they happened to FIRST
meet is not lacking in interest, although it
will always recall Q day to the gentle Emma
when she lost her temper to such q degree
that the "bookkeeper up loft were kept
very busy that evening balancing up the
naughty words on the IN" pages. While
still al the Opera Comiqpe Mile. Nevada
was anxious to secure the services Of some
want" as she expressed it,
and for q while she was in pourpsrlers with
the Frobsm brothers on the subject. But
when Gustave Frohsm came to visit her
here in Paris he found that her demands
were so out of proportion to what he be.
lieyed to be her drawing powers that he
concluded to leave her alone, but he prom.
ised to assist her in securing an agent Not
long stterwsrd he sent Chizzols to Nile.
Nevada, and finally she promised him 10
per cent of her salary if he would get her
en- engagement and 60 with her to America.
ThereDpOa Cbizzols went 10 Ai1-les. Bains
to see Colonel Mspleson, and Nevada went
to Novitch TO sing in orator,o. A few days
after her arrival at Noyitch Nevada received
q letter from Chizz7la, in which said: Maple
son has sigued the contract, $1,000 q per-
formsnee east Of the Rocky Mountains and
81 500 q performance in California. he
positively refused TO deposit $4,000 as q
guarantee, but has given me his check for
81, 900 and 9 promise that he will let you
have some more Immediately upon your ar
rival at New York ifyou need il. | shall
present the check tomorrow, and If it is
paid will take the first train thereafter to
Novitch" The check was paid, aud the
agent and the singer were soon busy with
heir business affairs. But when he got up
10 20 and remarked incidentally, something
about his brotherin law joining her a. Liv-
erpool, Emma very naturally inquired to
whom did he refer aud what he meant.
Nothing. only l have decided to send
my wife's brother, Raymond Palmer, with
you as your agent.
well, why are you not going with mer
she asked.
II am obliged to go With Nine. Ristori,
WHO Will lot ltL mt I'll. We ohoh oA 10 Al
New York at the same time, and l can give
you all necessary advice and assistance;
Palmer can be your personal escort Just as
easily as myself"
What followed is what an Irishman
would call 9 foine bit of dis~cooshun,' but
happily in which no noses were broken,
not even that Of the tsykettle. Miss Wix
ON was mad eli an through" and 1t was
her u~tteranees at this time that gave
the angels so much extra work to do;
but in the end she accepted the situa-
ton, and, along In the month of last No
vtmber, sal ed with her father, the pretty
French maid and her agent, Palmer, for
New York. 1t was thus that q young man
whose life had been spent as an assistant 10
a Birmingham drug shop, who had studied
medicine for q few months only, and who
had no experience whatever in the show
business, was elevated to the high posi-
ion" of sgent 10 a prims donna.
When che left Europe, Mile. Nevada was
engaged to q young American gentleman
named Chatterton. BE was over here for
a Icug time. and they were nearly always
,crether. But he was dismissed in a very
curt way when "Dr." Palmer became frat
the agent and then the lover Of the little
prims donna.