The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-06
PATTI IN NEW YORK
Manhattan Papers Tell Of q Wonder
ful Reception After Ten
n Years.
Mr.. Armstrong Says IF She Sang at
Ninety Shed Still Have
Charm"

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New York papers. have arrived in
Minneapolis bringing glowing ac-
counts of Nine. PATHS reception in
| that city after an absence of ten years.
According to reports. as brilliant an.
assemblage as ever greeted a prinla-
donna, welcomed Nine. Patti at Car
negie hall. The great audience ap-.
plauded and shouted its welcome and
when the singer gave her last selection
she received IAN ovation such as gen
orally is accorded only to national
heroes
Fashionable society was represented
in large numbers, including the Duke
of Roxburghe and his fance, Miss May
Goelet. Mrs. Ogden Goelet Mrs. 1.
Townsend Burden, Mrs. Orme Wilson.
| Mr.. and Mrs. 4 Edward Lauterbach,
Miss Bergh, Mrs. George Byrne and
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Esterbrook.
| The report that will perhaps most
William Armstrong, now on the staff
of the New York American. MI.
Armstrong is the well-known critic
who lectured here before one Of the
musical clubs a few years ago. He
says in part:
That the name of Nine. Patti still
| holds magic, in it was clearly apparent
even before entering Carnegie hail.
for those who came to see others who
came to hear caused the outside stair
way to assume almost the appearance
OF an opera night.
1.-The welcome Of the singer should
have left no doubt in her heart that
ten years Of absence have not dimmed
! affection. st
/ when she came out son the stage
flor her first number She carried her
self with the same. alert, girlish air
that we have always associated with
+ her. Her bearing is.@that of sixteen;
ma 4~io1 WIZ I,
audience, the same little taking ways,
down to the elastic skip when she ar
| rives on the scene for an encore
skip that so many prirna donnas have
!endeavored to initiate. Do better thar
! that if you can in your sixty first year!
it still. But the voice that it was
Nine. Patti herself would scarcely
claim that. III The Last Rose. there
were some golden tones, the middle
voice has still a. marvellous quality for
one of her years. and how quickly her
! hearers acknowledge it,.
/ Audience Warmly Greets Her.
| "They greeted her with applause
that lasted fully five minutes, an ap-
plause so enthusiastic that it visibly
affected her. But that applause was
not to be compared to the outburst
that followed The Last Rose of Sum
: mer.'
! When twas ended there were flow
ers and five recalls. Mr.. Sapio came
out to go on with the program, but the
clam orr for yet aIaot Their sight Of. her
} would not be stilled. Up the stairs tc
the stage she trippad again with that
same Now, ia owe Gould you % air.. II
was there, time land tide will likely
never efTaces it.42ss7gtasy
Following Ardia' II Bacio, hel
second Elber there was the same
scene Of appreciatJS ns and after -four
recalls ald#nloEe Mowers and Home
Sweet Hon1eacalle $h s misfortune of {
soflg5b Mr.asIIarrisgo After the Ball.
Why could not 5psbple be allowed tt
carry5th eiralllen lories away 1witIaou'
this farci ca1 disturbance Of them ?'is3
with. .recol1ections, and all tina
those recollections mean, sentiment SCI
the occasion outside the ordinary anc
judgment@in the ordinary sense. The
major part Of her audience last nigh
heard perhaps the Patti Of thirty
Twenty, ten years ago. =. ssTs,
) Es& At Ninety She'd Have Charm.
} eff she sang at ninety there would
:. still.be a charm inner voice. That, sht
should in her sixty-frst year sing a.
she does and with the facility of exc,
cution that she does, is but one. of thu
n1afyels of a marvellous career tina
has placed her in a. class apart .fol
more years than the most of us coult
i remember or would perhaps acknowl
: edge if we could"