The sun., 1897-03-02
LIVE TOPICS ABoUT TOWN.

last autumn. She has never indicated the |
least disposition to yield any one Of her |
claims and only the last episode In her quarrel |
betrayed any inclination to patch up Il peace. |
But when jean do Reszke returned her letter |
without having opened 1t overtures for peace
from her came TO an immediate end. Through
out the trouble Maurice Grau and Nine. Nor
dica have continued on good terms, and II
is undoubtedly true that she wrote to the
tenor with the idea Of coming to some
arrangement that might enable her to APP
pear with the Metropolitan company In
Chicago and thus strengthen 1t In what by acci-
dent happens to be its weakest feature. 1t was
only few hours after the letter was returned
to her that Nine. Nordica announced her Lon
don campaign. which will undoubtedly he active
and uncompromising. Mime. Lehnann has not
as yet been definitely engaged for tho season
there. and there Is stll no prima donna 80 much
entitled to tho position Of leading dramatic
soprano in London as Nine. Nordica. But there
are indications that she and Mr.. Grau are
not SO friendly and that may make her plans
somewhat moro difficult to carry out. This dit.
ference with tho tenor has made her the best
advertised woman in the United States to-day.
No managerial ingenuity ever devised a plan
that could have secured so much publicity.
Yvette Guilbcrt must have blushed with morti-
ication many time over the astonishing pub.
licity that Mime. Nordca has gained through
her troubles. When she asked Walter
Damrosch $1,000 performance for four
appearances with his company 1t showed that
spread. advertisement Another, person who
must be moro or less concerned over the out
come OF this quarrel is Signor Maanctnelli y has
been rumorcd that either Nine. Nordica or Mime.
Eames was to appear In the London production
OF his opera Hero and Leander. WITH Nine.
pearance more or less uncertain. the services OF
omner rn VI '"ese ''''so'' "'"' oo '''p'''' ~ %
onc OF the large ciuos which occupies ms
toric mousse on fith avenue IL smu 10 nave sur
Tered from the more or less prevalent lack o,
prosperity that humoer OF ciuos nave ie.' ana
when one OF its members resigned a.ely ms
action gave probability TO the rumors that haa
e[n s0,ns ot11 ~ m ,," v ch houss
anu "n ,,..snns ,.ho
happened to witness IL. A messenger boy who had
been summoned came into the club house. one
OF the club servants handed MIN some money
and the boy started to leave, after he had re-
oeNeo so"'e uiie'''o'' =" "' ~
the boys memory was not eaual TO the dehcate
commission with which he had been intrusted.
With his hand on the KNOB OF tnc dpori h9
given him the order:
What kind was that you said ~ Vanilla
lhere was no turtner use tor an a..euip, -, ~
gpoun of men who were already smiling. an.
swercd
quart OF vanilla Il they We got II; but
II was a little after the usual hour for dinner.
and the men who had been thus thrown into an
intimate acalaintahce MIN the cup i uonneis.iJ SUI
been Already eaten nm. or whether that was the
nrst call OF the evening for such an unusual
ueHcacy as 'ahiia ice Vre"ih'
sixtb avenue nlumber has coma IN the "a.
s,.t.nc, NJ bis fellow ci,izens with an invention
which ia like,v IN he moro apprcciated several
month. from now. ~. indeed, there is at any
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time suffcient demand Tor the sort OF protection
1t offers to make the scheme profitable. A card
In his shop window describes MS iaea
In these words; something 10 prevent
our cats from being too familiar, and
discover that the back fence is the
field to which this invention can be most effect.
with the point uppermost: To this is added
and there Is every appearance Of the mnchines
sS to do It's wST hill Ihess
sun spSeT seriously enough from nqsanSes Of ths
tion necessary.
Audiences that are from time to timo disap.
pointed by the non'appearance of singers are
,,Si, "1uas '''' ,,n ,hea,t,, o.. ,hn ,,J,.
wilfulness Is selected as the motive for the fail
! ure 10 appear. There are usually much better
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- M, ,h.y ,.er. aIv,ays unayoidahls
,,.a ~ St ,,,rntsh.d No, ,on,, o,,n
a., I,.,anoo ~, h.havior y.rv digor.nt
TO-, ,ha, a.. GO. In T.yy yorL and orec.
! tive az IL may have been. there is little
| probability that such course would become
general hers Snn e opera ,. nj ~ ,ha ie y;
| moment the bill had TO be changed. This had
happened once or twice before, and the audi
ence determined to give an emphatic expression
| to its Indignation one act or The Flying
Dutchman and Cavalierla fpsticans we're
| announced as substitutes, But thry were never
sung. 80 soon as the curtain went up there was
a storm OF hisses and cat calls. From the
| boxes there came shower OF small copper
! coins The rest or the audience followed this
| example, and the players IN the orchestra were
| compelled to put on their hats lhe director IN