The herald., 1894-11-07
THE SACRAMENTO PARIS|ENNE
Sibyl Sanderson, the California
School Girl.
She Has Brought All Paris to Her
Feet.
Soon to Sing In Her own Country.
After Five Years of Opsratio Tri-
umph She 10 Coming Back.
Still sn American.

Still an American.
Miss Sibyl Sanderson is we'll known
in this city, whore some OF her relatives
reside. The following from the Sar
Francisco Examiner will be found of in
terest:
The typical Pariaian beauty was born
in Sacramento. 1t seems strange, but
true it is that Sibyl Sarderson is re-
garded in Paris not only as
the typical beauty, but as the typical
woman of the French capital. Hei
dresnes are admired as her singing is
praised. Her perfect figure and her fair
face are extolled, while her acting ia
commended. Sibyl Sanderson is q
Parisian star, and she ia coming to
America to sing at the head of the Paris
Grand Opera company.
Mics Sanderson'e early education was
altogether Californian. When she was
o child Sacramento had more OF social
prominence in comparison with San
Francisco than it now has. The big
houses of the millionaires which now
from time to time severaly are offered
to the etate for the governor to live in
were p0opled py the magnates of the
railroad. Mob Hill had not developed
in San Francisco. In the RAILROAD cir.
Gle" were her compsuionships and
friendships. While che was still q
young girl her father moved to San
| Francisco.
The eminent man. able equally as
pleGder, advocate and jurist, the chief
justice OF the supreme court of the state,
| than tho ohiof ~ h~ Ia do "a, of
the Central Pacific railroad, looked upon
his daughter Sibyl almost with adora-
ton. 1t is related OF him that, sitting
in his residence in the evening, while
pretending to read, he would look over
his book and follow with his eyes every
movement of his favorite child. This
daughter in many respects resembles
her intellectual parent. She has the
same active temperament. she has O
dominating will, masculine force. In
truth this young girl was worthy in ap-
pearanCe the admiring gaze of men who
had not the interest Of fatSer in her
deyalopment and her graces. To unus-
nal endowment by nature she added tho
witchery of fanciful adornment of her
figure. She WAS inclined to clingng
gowns that indicated but did not dis
Ruise the curves that they covered. She
liked strong men. full OF purpose and
vigor, rather than the sedate and the
scholarly.
She was wooed, ~ such women are
sure to be wooed, by young men dis
tracted by her many charms. That she
did not marry here was not that fortunes
were never laid at her feet. Twice was
she engaged to young men OF San Fran.
cisco, and either one would have brought
her estates and bonds, as well as social
status equal to her own. She was not
Ger anxious to wed, however, and each
OF the engagements was made but to be
broken.
While receiving her education In Sac
ramento and this city she gave much
attention to music and to French. As
she came to maturity her voice devel-
oped into b wonder in musical express
ion. She sang to perfection the ornate
music of the modern French school and
some mu0ic of the Italian composers.
Ardittps II Bacio was q revelation as
che sang it, and any man who heard
that waltz and did not want to dance
with the fair singer and steal from her
lips the title of the song was either q
hopeless invalid or misanthrope.
The death of her father caused no long
interruption in her studies. She con-
tinued to sing and to improve in voice
and method, in face and figure and In
favor with mankind.
Miss Ssnderson's inclination for the
opera received an impulse at the time
Patti and Salchl and Emma Nevada
sang at the Grand Opera house. She
was much with the members of the op-
era company, 30 much SO that the society
gossips whispered strange things about
q romantic attachment between her and
CARDINAL. the young italian tenor OF
heroic figure. Boccaccian eyes and un-
certain voice.
Soon after this opera season was over
Mrs. Sanderson and her daughters left
for Europe. In Paris Miss Sibyl began
the arduous study that brought about
her triumphs on the stage. She attend
cd the Paris conservatory and afterward
was instructed by Sbriglia She studied
Manon Lescaut with Leoncsvallo, who
was the one to bring about her acuu uuain-
tance with Msssenet. She was also a
pupil of Marchesi and under the COM
poser Lalo she studied his Lakme.
Her debut was made OF The Hague
under the name of Ada Palmer, She
was eminently successful. The opera
Nanon waH given twice in The Hague
and once in Amatordam A perform
ance IN Paris was arranged, but Miss
serious illnesS from scar-
let tever prevented the fulfillnent of |
this plan.
Meanwhile Massenet was writing Es.
diamonds, and he selected Sybil San.
derson as the only artist i'll France able |
to sing the part. The first performance |
came on the 18th of May of the Expos-
tion year at the Opera Comique. The !
success OF the opera and tbs singer is
historical in Paris. The wonderful note
u in alt was easily reached and sus-
tanned by this wonderful soprano. Flow,
srs filled the apartments of this Ameri-
'an girl. Congratulations came by mail
and by cable from America. Frends in
San Francisco sent messages of compli-
ment. The Bohemian Club cent note
the SanFranciscO singer.