The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-07
WILL SING FOR
SI56 A MINUTE.
Patti Will Sing Sixty Times
in This Country for
$4,000.

NEW YORK. March en- the old
opera days when the sheriff regularly
attended each performance, with sus-
piciOus looking papers bulging out Of
his pockets, and when the end of
season was always a lugubrious babel
of mixed Italian and German. cut
asunder by wild gesticulations, the
divine Adelina, erstwhile Patti. then
Marquise de CauX, then SignOra Nico-
lini, and now Baroness CederstrOm,
was never left to mourn the losses ana
i'll fate of her impressariO.
Each and every night she demanded
Il part of her nightly pay before the
tinkling of the bell sent up the first
curtain. At the end of the first act
the little formally of a Napoleon or a
strackOsh or a maritzek stepping back
with a bundle of bank bills was a nee
essity, and before the last act was be-
gun the diva had her pay for the night
i'll full-or the last act never happened.
Evidently the great songstress has
lost none of the business acumen while
resting at her regal palace at Craig-y-
Nos castle in Wales. The farewell tour
she is to make Of the Western hem
isphere, beginning at the Metropolitan
opera house in this city. Nov. next,
by shrewd contracts and careful pre-
cautions, will net her nearly a half
million dollars, which is something of
an inducement TO forsake the comforts
of home and face the rigor of a tour.
which has been ameliorated by all the
known arrangements cleverly- worded
contract 10
happiness of La Diva.
Robert Grau, a nephew Of Maurice
Grau, the only impressario in this
country who has ben able to gather
a fortune from the sweet voices of
nomadic European song birds. yester-
day received a contract. which he is
to sign, without scratching. When he
does, and deposits $4,000 with the
Rothschild brothers in London-this to
assure her payment for the last ten
after concerts-then the great Patti
Will affiX her signature, and she will
o. come here once more before she ends
her brilliant musical career.
The stipulations. covering two sheets
OF foolscap are many and the demands.
exact. Besides the payment of s.. 900
for each concert-and she is not to be
sA'iN0d " -SlIlSI III lllOIe IMAM ten con-
certs in one month-she is to receive
so per cent of each concert in which
the receipts exceed $500 AS she will
undoubtedly at least sing to $4,000 on
an average at each concert. her net re-
celpts for each performance will be
sWelled to $3.50, or, in round figures
$50 5000 for the sixty concerts.
At each concert she Is to sing one
n .N,-I
in a scene from La Traviata." '''The
Barber of Seville" or Linda di Cham.
DUNK" and be it understood, she may
miss any concert by reason of indis-
position.
During the two hours of the concert
she will probably be on the stage for
forty minutes, for which she will be
paid little over $156 a minute or
$3.50 every second. 1t is estimated that
she VIII in that time sing 1900 notes
which Will make each note worth &
fraction over $3.47 to her. Every time
when Patti draws her breath during
the concert she will earn in the neigh
borhoOd Of $3.50.
- Mime. Patti is to travel in regal style,
II goes without saying. She is to have
private car for herself and her hus..
'''lu' al newly IufnlSned,-and accom-
mediation for a suite of Six persons.
Another specification is that Mr.. Grau
shall also provide apartments on the
ground floor of all the first class hotels
In every city visited.
AS at present planned the tour will
begin in this city on Nov. with two
concerts, matinee, which will be
given in the Metropolitan opera house.
and an evening performance In Madison
Square garden.
She will then go eastward and re-
turning to New York visit in turn
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington.
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chi
cago, Milwaukee, st. Paul. MINNEAPOLIS.
Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, Salt
Lake, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New
Orleans. Galveston. Dallas. Memphis.
Nashville, Louisville, Columbus To-
ledo. Buffalo, Toronto, Rochester. sara
cuse, Montreal Albany. Brocklvn and
then back to New York for TWO more
concerts. one in the afternoon and the
other at night
Then she will go to the City of
Mexico, where she will be heard in
four concerts, and if all this is done
before Feb. 1, she will go to Havana
for four concerts