The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-27
NINE. seal CHI TALKS
Denies That She Will Make a
Farewell Tour With Patti.
MAY GO TO AUSTRALIA
Will Not Get a Divorce from
Her Present Husband.

"Ah! believe have met you before
was the pleasant greeting an Eagle rep
resentative met with from Madame Seal
chi in her room. after the play last night
The madame was right, but the reporter
little thought that her memory on sucr
matters had kept as clear and intact as
ner melodious voice.
The reporter found the madame in very
happy state of mind, but suffering from a
slight cold which she attributed TO the
very poor accommodations on a freight
train she and her company were COM
PEELED to ride in two days ago.
"Oh my! Just think" laughed the mad
anne, ''that we should have TO ride in a
what do you call it? Oh, yes-caboose!
Oh, it's terrible!" and the famous singer
laughed heartily while she thought Of her
first real experience on an American hog
train.
When questioned in regard TO her plan.
for next season, Madame Scalchi said that
she had under consideration an offer to
sing in st. Petersburg, Russia, and a most
flattering offer to make a tour of Australia
with her present company. She is in
clined to favor the Australian offer, she
said, as she has never sang there. but will
make no definite arrangements until the
present season is over. Unlike Patti, Seal
chi cares little to advertise herself on a
farewell tour, but hints strongly that this
may be her last appearance on the Ameri-
can stage. Not that she thinks her popu-
larity is on the decline, but foreign coun-
tries are anxious to hear her before she
retires. which Scalchi thinks ought to be
soon.
In answer to query as to how the west
ern people appreciated Italian opera, Seal
chi said she found them vastly more ap-
preciative than eastern people, and a great
deal more enthusiastic than on her last
tour through this section.
When asked as 10 the truth of a rumor
that was current some time ago, of Mad
anne Patti and herself making a last fare
well tour together, Madame Scalchi en-
phatcally declared it false and said under
no conditions would she think of touring
with Patti. In short, Madame Scalchi did
not care TO discuss anything pertaining
to PATHS affairs or TO her late marriage,
which Scalchi said was too delicate a mat
ter to handle without care. Scalchi was
very anxious that the reporter would also
make an emphatic denial of a rumor that
appeared in a New York paper a short time
ago of her contemplated divorce from her
husband. Count Lolli. She declared that
IS false to the core, and considers divorce
the worst advertisement that could be
given her. The reporter promised to print
her denial and save her from further no.
toriety.
From here Scalchi and her troupe go
south through Texas. and thence east and
north, and will probably finish the season
in Canada.
DR.. Alberto I5olli, Scalchi's son, accom-
panfes her on her tour, in the capacity of
treasurer. He is a manly young man,
true type of an Italian gentleman. He
has a soft, rich voice, not unlike his
mother, 70 whom he is extremely atten-
tive. DR.. LOlli says that it was his pres
ence with his mother this year that caused
the rumOr Of a divorce between his father
and mother, his father being compelled to
remain at his home in Ferrara, Italy, on
account of i'll health. which, from the ex-
perience of the past few days, proved a
wise move as Dr. Lolli said: MY father
could never make himself at home on an
American hog car"