The herald., 1895-01-23

| on the Atlantic seaboard and ending at San
| Francisco only last week. will not say was
not surprised, Just one little bit surprised.
when heard what your Los Angeles critics
wrote about me in this mornings papers"
1t was an amiable. even charming, fair
skinned, blonde bsired and blue-eyed matron'
sitting on a red plush sofa in one OF the parlor
| suites of the Nadeau last evening, wEo voiced
| these sentiments She was laughing as she
spoke, yet vt was hardly the merriment OF one
enjoying good joke, that moved her. one
| arm was stretched out over the BACK Oh the
| sofa, showing shapely fingers that wore en-
| circled with fortune In diamonds.
Tho other hand lay on her lap and showed
| another fortune in precious stones-the gifts
| of crowned heads and royal personages. 1t was
| Madame Marie Tavary, born at St. Petersburg;
| certainly more than IS years ago, but still
| vivacious attractive, and very pleasing woman
in conversation, her slight foreign accent
| being rather an added charm Very gracious
| very much the lady in her bearing, somewhat
| larger and weighing a trife more than the
| average woman, typical Prussian blonde
| Madame Tavary off the stage.
| az did not read the things in the papers
they were too small, think, too petty. But
| thought them stran ge-after San Francisco.
| found most critical and apprecatlve press
| and audience in San Francisco. and l am sur
| prised at these little things down here-so
little they are Indeed, one of your papers
said l could once sing. but tn some OF my line
| notes were out OF tune now, or not so strong
or something like that they said; OF course,
did not read them.
| and the Los Angeles audiences? Well, l
think your people will like Lottie Collins bet
| ter. What can l say of an audience that ap-
plauded a chorus and remained unapprecia-
tive of the finer aud grander tones2 do not
refer to myself in this. was not on the stage
at the time, but it spoiled Mr.. Merten's en-
trance-the idea, applauding the mere Jingle
| of a male chorus" Z.
Marie Tavary's jeweled hands did not re-
main inactive or passive all this time. She
| spoke with zest and earnestness She leaned
over as she spoke. Then she sat back and
toyed with the tassels of the red sofa. But the
smile-the smile of hostess in palace never
| left her fair-skinned face and her large eyes
sparkled at times-but not with merriment
| alone.
az found the San Francisco audiences appre-
ciative of grand opera. No, I cannot say the
same for Los Angeles 1t was not a sympa-
thetc audience that greeted me Monday even
ing. They were so ready to laugh at trifies.
They did not enter into the soul of the music
or the theme-were not capable, so it seemed
of following either, intelligently and appreci-
atively. Once something went wrong on the
stage and those in the house Uttered. II
showed bad taste, that, thought.
"And had just come from drive through
your beautiful city and its surroundings, and
l was ready to love Los Angeles. But the
cold ness of the sudience-and then these lit
tie things in the papersi Oh, well, will not
say-but, then, it is a lack OF musical educa-
ton. think. You see, they have had no
grand opera here for long time."'
"A good many of our people are looking to-
ward Southern California these days" said
William F. Quade, OF David City, Neb., at the
Hollenbeck yesterday. "The drouth has killed
everything in Western Nebraska. The hot
winds fairly cooked the wheat in the field, and
nothing at all could be raised 1t was total
failure of crops. and the result has been disas-
trous to the people and to the reputation of
the state for some time to come. | lived in
that part of Nebraska for Is years, and this
has been the first complete failure of
the crops Yes some of the people
there have been on the verge OF
actual starvation 1t was the hot winds from
Kansas; that was the cause, but we are recov-
ering now Relief in substantial form has
been coming in from all over the country. and
our people will sool be their feet again.
Yet d great many of them will probably emil
grats very soon. and most of them will seek
homes in Southern California. Already there
S quite colony of recent arrivals from West
ern Nebraska at Escondido. am going down
| there to visit them and may remain here'.'
| When Henry Watterson was on the tlast
| year he took occasion to point the moral, from
his own successful career, that men who start
out to be successful in life should stick hard
and fast to one line of effort-beome special
lists, in fact And now lesser light, though
as gool an example on the negative side of
the question, points the same moral from his
own failures, ]. H. Haverly, once the world
famous "Jack" Haverly of minstrelsy, is plan
ming now for a tour of Mexico and South
America. Had l stuck to the business in
which success and fortune came to me. there
would still be brass bands and tinkling Gym
balls heralding my incoming. l made more
than one fortune" he said, he stood in the
foyer OF the Hollenbeck last evening, "but
, only in one line-the sho " business. When
tried mining and stock speculation-tried to
make millions in months-I failed. That's the
truth. 1t was out of my line. Now I've got
, another fortune to make, and 1 expect to make
a good part of it in the southern hemisphere u
Flank Higgins tells good story that illus
trates well the mammoth, but misdirected self.
assumption of the Bay city people. During a
recent visit of himself and Mrs. Higgins tC
San Francisco they were the guests OF Lucky
Baldwins big hotel. Among the acquaint
ances tn ey met there several ladi-s who
had just arrived from their homes in Illinois
Somebody had been telling the lady tourists
about the wonders of San Francisco, for the!
seemed tolerably well posted las the seque
= will show when Mrs. Higgins asked them tt
express opinion on the Golden Gatt city.
. "Oh, think it is quite fine CITY," said on
of the ladies, land it has such beautiful sub
. urbs. am told. There is Oakland. and Sal
Jose and Los Angeles and Fresno. l haven
seen them all yet, but yesterday l went t.
Oakland. If find the Other suburbs as pleas
ant, am sure sba like San Francisco"
GOSSIP OF THE TRANSMITS.
g Editor Haskell of the Pomona Progress wa
in the ely yesterday.
Ex-Deputy County Tax collector Estudillt
Editor Mark Plaisted and ]. NJ Miller. oil Ri,
erside. are in the city.
, E. Berger, who represents B. Hart, the sa
Franc SEQ importer of Japan silks, arrived her
a., yesterday and registered at the United State
hotel
e Nine Yale, "the most beautiful woman i
the world" as she is called, will not visit 10
Angeles until after her return from Europe /
April
C. A. Bronangh merchant of Los Cato
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