The San Francisco call., 1899-07-15
LAMBARD| OPERA
COMPANYS WOES
Property and CaSh-Box
Attached.
PLANT OF ANITA D0MANIUS
HER MFAGER SALARY HAS NOT
BEEN PAID.
To Add to the Troubles of the Man
agement, Three Other Members
Of the Troupe Have Re
signed.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, July 1.-The Lambardi
Grand Italian Opera Company is in trouble,
due to financial stringency and dtscord
among the artists from sunny Italy. Last
night the scenery, costumes and cash box
were attached, and the company was thus
prevented taking the early train this
morning for Los Angeles, where it is to
open an engagement tomorrow night.
The cash box was subsequently released,
but Constables Haley and Marshall still
have possession Of costumes and scenery.
Efforts were made TO get these, but with
little success.
The attachment was levied by Miss
Anita Domanius, who is very anxious to
obtain 1855, WHICH she claims is due her
from Manager Mario Lambardi for salary.
Suit FOR this amount was commenced in
Justice Wallace's court.
The plaintiff in the case Is one Of the
leading singers, being named In every
publication of the cast as one OF the
contralto voices. She is very large
young woman, weighing about 200 pounds
and in her native tongue she utters
weighty protests, accompanied with lively
gesticul9 tionS, In her version or the man
ner in which she has been treated by her
employer. Mario Lambardi.
Miss DomaniuS sued to recover $265 that
was alleged to be due her partly upon a
promissory note and partly for salary for
recent services. The note was issued on
September 22 of last year for $348, pay
able IN TWO weeks. by a COlDCluSnCe TIE
transaction wss begun during an engage
ment OF the company in San Jose, Costa
Rica and the note was sued upon at the
namesake Of that town, San Jose in Cali
fornia.
It is alleged that only on two occasions
were any payments made on the note not
makes $22S still due, and the remainder
of the amount sued for, $37, was alleged
to be for salary for services in the com
pany from June. to July 19 Although
H. rha 1nnd q n
seems that the European scale of wages
was still in force and Miss Domanius re-
ceived only s2 a day, which was the limit
of her salary contract entered into num-
ber of months ago.
The note upon which the attachment
suit was brought is in the Spanish Ian
guage which is the Language or legal doc
uments in Costa Rica.
A fight upon technical grounds has beer
begun against the attachment suit: 1t was
claimed by Manager Lambardf that the
costumes did not belong to him. but that
the brilliant Spangled attire in which his
singers appeared in the various operas III
their repertoire were borrowed plumes, as
it were. 1t was claimed that they die
not belong to the company, but were sim
ply rented under a contract from cos
tuner. and therefore could not be levied
upon for a debt contracted by Manager
Lambardi.
II is reported that besides his troubles
with his leading contralto singer Impre-
sario Lambardi is minus three other war
blerS-Flctorla hePeLto; ulTd, JosSPli e
rari barytone, and Baldo Travaglini. La
Repetto and Ferrari have already quit the
company. and Travaglini will leave in fif-
teen days. The trouble with these singers
is said to be not on account of delin-
ouency in the payment of salaries, but
an affair of honor. Luigi Bergami, the
stage manager, 1t is said, addressed
that the lady Immediately resigned, and
the barytone threw down his music roll
and quit Travaglini, too, was enraged
but, unfortunately, the basso had giver
his word of honorto the management that
money or no money, he would stay by
. him for fifteen days more, and the singer
would not break his word.