The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-09
SIBYL SANDERSON BACK TO HER OLD HOME
FLUSHED WITH UNDYING GLORY OF EUR0PES
APPROVAL AND ANXIOUS TO WIN OUR FAVOR
ecals Old Times, Old Friends and Old Scenes Tells An
ecdoteS of Days Gone By and Patches Up Quarrel
With an Old Friend, Who Makes the First Advances

FTER an absence OF sixteen
N years. during which time she has
IN gained worldwide fame and a
tremendous fortune, Sibyl Sander
son came quietly into town yes
terday morning and went directly 20 the
Palace, where she will make her home
during her stay in this city.
The first person the prima donna met
as she stepped into the Palace elevator
was a friend Of olden days.
How do you do, DEAR" said the visitor
inpulsively and laying so much stress on
the "dear" that the great singer after
ward told about it. And then they shook
hands and for a few minutes snapped
"reminiscences, and thus healed the breach
existing between them and dating back
r to a Paris dinner of several years ago.
Madame Sanderson-as she desires to be
known in public ufe-was not at her
best yesterday. However, If Mrs. Yost,
the singers aunt, had not explained this
to her interviewers, no one would have
suspected it. The trip from Los Angeles
10 this city had been a very trying one
for the singer. She had eaten some
canned meats that had made her i'll and
doctors had to be telegraphed for and
doses Of laudanum administered before
the pain could be allayed. Although the
LADY thought she was going to die" and
spent a miserable night in a very cold
car, Madame Sanderson's friends need
have no apprehension She is thoroughly
and absolutely well and without the pos
sibility Of even a very slight cold.
The rooms reserved for Madame San
derson were a perfect bower Of flowers
when she came to them. Legions of
friends had sent their choicest blossoms
to welcome home the celebrated song
stress. There were roses and violets.
loug-stemmed shaggy chrysanthemums
and an immense bunch Of great pink Han
nah Hobart carnations. The flowers
charmed Madame Sanderson. She snuffed
e. them delightedly. The great carna-
ti3ns especially pleased her.
Look at those pinl1s," she kept saying
over and over again. did you ever see
anything like them? I never have
Madame Sanderson quite upsets ones
preconceived ideas Of a prina donna. She
is not fat. She does not muf1e up her
throat. She is charmingly natural, and
looks exactly like her photographs. OF
course she said she was pleased to be
once again in San Francisco, but she did
not dwell upon the fact. Naturally she
declared that she was bit nervous about
facing a San Francisco audience, and
neither did she emphasize this statement.
Her old friend Henry Redington was
with her while she met her interviewers.
With the aid Of his very good memory
the songstress recalled old times and old
friends. Redington called her Sibyl, and
she relied implicitly upon his version Of
tie days gone by. She smiled fascinat-
ingly at him when she told it, and he
smiled back and said that was many
years ago and Sibyl was so young-a mere
girl then"
DO you remember when we all went
down in a special train to the opening of
the Hotel del MOnte?" asked the prima
donna Of Redington. And do you remem-
Der how We used to go every Saturday
night to the Bush-street Theater?"
Qaeried Redington. And then Damrosch
came in, and after the prima donna had
graciously greeted him she turned
pleading face TO him and said
I tell you where I want to go to while
am here I want to go to the minstrels.'
Damrosch said. Very WELL" ignorant
that he was promising that which he
could not possibly fulfill. Then one Of the
interviewers told Madame Sanderson that
there was no stock minstrel show here
like there was in her time, and she
sighed and said she was "Oh, so sorry"
Sibyl sanderson is very pretty. She is
tall and graceful and is at once roguish
and dignihed. She is about as French as
1t is possible for a California girl to be.
even to very slight French turn to her
speech and a suspicion of q French ac-
cent. She says she loves Paris, and the
distinguishing touch Of the gay capital is
stamped all over her from the tips Of the
pale blue little pointed satin slippers that
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