The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-22
IT IS A GLORY TO HER
For Her Hair is Given to He1
for a Covering.
PATTI HAS THE RED VARIETY.
His Interview with the Great Diva-Favorite
Characters Opinion Of Tamagno-She
is Still a Lovely Woman.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. I
CHICAGO, Dec. 81. = Madame Adelina
Patti Nicolini and her suit, including her
two maids, her private secretary and her
husband, are quartered at the Richelieu
where the diva holds quasi royal drawing
room just before her carriage ride every
afternoon. 1t is not the easiest thing in
the world to be admitted to the presence
or ought-a body to say the queen dowager?
of song. First, the California pilgrim
must be passed upon by Milward Adams,
who sends him to Mr.. Grau, who refers
him to Private Secretary NORM, who sees
Signor Nicolini and he will let him know
about it later. But when the prelimina-
ries have all been arranged at last and the
royal presence is won. the interesting lady
on the sofa is manifestly worth all the
trouble she has cost.
/ Patti is older than she used to be- She
confesses to forty seven, and the reader of
the Examiner who knows womankind can
construct his own equation of forty seven
plus d equal to whether his good nature
will permit, there are crows felt at the
corners of the eyes, aud just the: sus-
picion of wrinkle over the cor
ner of the mouth. Her complexion
is still all that her most earnest devotee
could wish-a combination of milk and red
roses done on satin, and the dark eyes beam
as dangerously as they did when the won
| her triumph in 'sLa Scala'r in 1860.
This gentleman brought you the good
wishes of the San Francisco Examiner, :"
said NORM this afternoon, and the diva was
graciously pleased to give your attorney
in fact both hands and make room for seat
on the sofa dislodging for that purpose a
very pretty little girl, who was manifestly
very far gone in the Patti cult The
Madame sat in the best possible light, and
here is dicture of her as she looks now {:
Hair, red-not auburn or Titianesque, or
any of these apologetic compromises with
the truth, but honestly and frankly red.
Here and there one may detect the tints of
rubescent brown, but the whole effect of
the mass of hair is candid Irish red.
Where it is touched by the bright lights the
color is somewhat modified, but taking it in
block it can only be described as
roseate and glistening like red
gold or cochineal tinted bonbons.
Just beneath the bang, and she wears dis
tinct bang, are two startlingly black eye
brows, overarching two very dark and
eloquent eyes, black dashed and lambent.
like those of the old Patti, who delighted
western America many years ago. On
UU6 upper ID GuC SudklOW llht uuSk Vi
evening skies. If you could imagine the
Patti that you used toknow partially done
in red chalk by an artist who repented him
of his innovations when he had but parti.
ally finished his picture, you can get the
effect which the diva produced this after
noon as she discussed hair dye and high art
with humble necessary newspaper man
as the party of the second part.
Eyes, look at it." she said, with almost a
pout, dimly conscious of the cataloguin9
which she was undergoing. ~ never be
fore thoroughly understood the knowledge
of human nature which made Alcibeades
cut off his dogs tail. The newspapers have
had column about my red hair for every
line they have had about the cavatiDa il
'Semiramide' or the duet in Lucia"
but you know, madame, your CONVEX.
sion from the brunette type to the blonde. y
"And why not" she interrupted. ''Here
, / is the whole story The French will moi
) have brunette Juliet. Blondes are the
only type they will suffer, and to meet
their preiudices, bleached my hair. Once
! done, to be perfectly frank with you, I was
so charmed with the result that could MOI
suffer myself to become brunette again
My hair. and have a lot of it, was nevel
so becoming N my life. / knew that bleach
ing would do it no harm. 1t only requires
D constant care, and that my maid gives"
5 'tBut was Juliet blonde!'
''Of course she was not How could sht
a have been, and she Veronese? 1t is only
the Partisan fad. They insist on blond,
Juliet, Just as the stage insists on blond,
Marguerite, although Goethe's Marguerit,
was in all human probability a brunette
Now, l will not wear wig. With hair lik,
this, why should II"
There was quick movement of the diva
hands, and an instant later red CASCADE
came tumbling down her back, making hel
look like a school girl, and undoing in
moment the tresses her maid had so care
l fully constructed during the toilsome tot
lette hour.
+ ''And it is not dye,' she said, runnin.
: one of the long strands over her iewelet
, fingers at is bleach. You can't dy,
black hair red, but you can bleach it."
l "How?"
sAhl that is the secret of the toilette
But will tell you if any of your pretty
San Francisco brunettes desire truly an(
a bona fide to reform and become blondes
and the Examiner will guarantee to m,
their good faith, will send them my re
cipe. But won't publish it.n
: ''You know, madame, that there is a GER
tain admirable but very vigorous characte
+ usually associated with red hair in tn
public mind. Have you found that you
= character has altered with your hair!''
''You had better as Nicolini."
The signor smiled a negative
''You see," the madam continued" l wa
intended to be red haired from the first
I and my character was built that way. Tn
mistake was in making me a brunette i
the first place. am only now finding GU
= my destiny and following it up to it's logi
o cal red haired cenclusion.''
t ''Why did you choose red instead O
Yellow"
'What question: Imagine yellow hal
about my face" and she framed herself il
t her rosy aureole, making picture worth
trip to the Richelieu to see.
II could not have committed grave
error" she went on. ''All my tints woul
have been swearing at each other, as tn
artists say. 1t is just the difference be
/ tween harmony and a'discord.''
% ''But, why, remember, am mere ma
= and don't understand these things. VIII
~ have the eyebrow black!'
"If You were woman, sir, you would'n
ask the question. There is nothing set
off the eye like well marked eyebrow, an
black line like this can be seen twice a
IL far as a lighter arch. Inmaking up for tn
IS stage you must remember that there
the same difference as against dressing fo
IS the parlor, that there is between an O
; painting and an aquarelle. One is to b
t seen from short distance; the other frol
b a longer one. An artist must present sue
/, toilette and such a make up, if you will
as will be effective a hundred feet ava,
If l had bleached my eyebrows, woul
have to pencil them when / went benin
e the footligts."
;. nHasn't the whole work of the make u
~ a wretched effect on the complexion!"
: HAS it had it on mine?" replied sh
). turning so that the full light of the vii
Is dows fell upon her face, with the full col
fidence of one who knew that all the fac
were in her favor.