San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-28
The QUEEN OF SONG,
ADELINA PATTI-NICOLINI AND HER
COMPANY HALTS IN THE CITY.
Some Interesting Facts of Her Life
and the Story of Her
Unfortunate Love.

Some Interesting Facts of Her Life
and the Story Of Her
Unfortunate Love.
The famous diva. Adelina Pstli-Nico
line, arrived in the city on FRIDAY even
ing on her way to the City OF Mexico,
where she ILLS an important engage
uent. This was an unexpected pleas
ure, inasmuch as Patti had arranged 10
sing In Vera Cruz and proposed to pro-
Ceed to that place by the water route,
but pOstpOmement Of that engagement
gave her chance to come this way.
She arrived In her palttial car, which
was attached to the ordinary train from
Galveston. and remained here only n
few minutes.
During PATHS stay the party was Kept
as privately as possible, but, as usual,
the newspaper reporter got in his work
Madame Patti did not say all that has
been attributed to her, but she dld say
that she was willing TO
SING IN San ANTONIO
If arrangements could have been made.
Her manager, Mr.. Henry f. Abbey, had
endeayOred 10 arrange with Mr. Rtsche
tor PATHS appearance in san Antonio,
but unfortunately her dates dashed with
that OF the Abbott opera company, and
/. was therefore out of the question.
There are, however, hopes that Patti
will appear on her return from Mexico.
The personnel OF the party was us fol-
lows:
Madame Adelina-Patti-NiC
Madame Salchi, the eminent Italian
cOnGraltO.
Signor Guile, the new French tenor
who can Teach the high { in Il pure tone.
SynOr GAlassi, the Italian baritone.
Manager Henry +. Abbey and his
bride.
All seem to be well and in fair spirits
excerpt the tnnui, the usual sequence Of
a long journey.
Puui's appearance in Galveston was n
financial and artistic success. The Ire
mont opera house was crowded and the
SUN Of 81 4G7 WAS reGt wed. OF this,
PATHS manager received $4,000. In ad-
dItron To- eng the great sOngtres
u scenes from Faust" aud "IratiA
IN which she assumed her two great
roles Marguerite" and "VIOlette" the
audience heard her sing
THE OLD BALLADS
Home Sweet HUmr" and Coming
through the Ryne." PATHS ballad sing
ing Is irnmeuse. The paGhOs OF the firrE
ballad and the piquaucy of the second,
a. the writer knows by experience, are
lnimItable and no one can really e
lipve there is the mccoy in them thar
There Is. until they have heard Patti.
Madame AGeina Maria CIurinda
Patti-NIcOliui nee Marquae de Caux-
We think none OF ner names gOI
buXUm brunette, who
admits that she has seen forty
three summers and as many win
.-rs il OF Italian descent, but was born
II Mahrd. Spain. she III de her debu'
in New York twenty seven Years ago
.wO wears later rhe went t.. LOndnn,H ~ d
became the rrc"EnlIr0
@ Ieen OF Song and che sIlil rrIaIne
IN .cepIrr Eighteen years ago She
married French Marquis, who had u
bigger name than herself. Ii was LUus,
~euastirn. Henri, Dc Roger, D-Cahuzau,
Marquis de CuuX. As might have been
expected union OF such big names WAS
Of happiness LOUIS. that's
what we'll call hun for short, was II
roue and gambler who hadn't much
more than a title and married Adelina
MS a speculation. There WAS millions IN
IL. Ae i'l h'ClliloS SiO NUN I ''hii y
The Marquis for love. Friends urged the
and as the singer had no other
sutton that she cared for, and thought ii
WAS big thing TO be a real life Mar
quise, she consented After their mar
riage the Marquis paid particular atten-
ton 10 PATHS finances and Literally scat
tered her gold
AMONG COURTESANS AND GAMBLERS
But he didn't pay much attention to the
Marquise, whom he treated rs if she
were an inUumbrance TO her money.
Adelina objected to this arrangement,
and not finding happiness at home
sought it elsewhere and found il. Now
il happened that she played TO the hand
some tenor Nlcoiini. He was married il
is true, but that didn't prevent his pay
ing soft attention to AdeliDa. They
played love so naturally and emphati-
Cally on the stage that, both being sus-
ceptible to the influence of that wicked
little cupid, they played the same role
in private life. Then the Marquis OBJ
jecteu, so did the SignOra NiuOlini,
and the fat was in the fire. Natu-
rally it created big blaze. The up
shot of the whole business WAS that
mobile" Marquis froZe on TO the lions
share OfPatti's earnings and released the
wifely eneumbrance from his presence.
The SignOra NiColini was paid suili-
cient sum of money to provide herself
with other quarters and not to be
troublesome to her husband. Then came
the cloud on PATHS life, the natural re-
suit Of circumStances-Of bad usband
and an unfortunate marriags. Whilst
the singers were devOIedly attached to
each other that cloud b. came BURDEN
some, and Recently they shifted It,.
Money was the power, and ii worked
well. Adelina, by paying n permanent
tax to her husband, secured her freedom,
and NiOOlini. by II judiciOus use OF gold,
persuaded his wife 10 do he same thing
Both became free and were recently
married at PATHS beautiful castle OF
Craig Nos in Wales. Tins all is well.
Patti has had no children as the result
of either of her unions, but she has four
big ones that
CALL HER MOTHER.
This is NiCOlini's fault, for they are bis
children by the first marriage. ore IS
an officer IN the French army, the other
is an actor at the Coincide Frrncais.
The balance is made Up of two beauIi-