Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-03

| DraSS band tour enough money was
| saved, with little more borrowed, for
! more lessons.
This lime It was in Milan, under san
! Giovanni. The musty garrct in Milan
! was made cheerful and homclikc by
few feminine tricks Of the devoted
! mother who also substituted whole
! some New England cookery for spagh-
! ETH and macaronl.
There was nothing IN Lillian Nortons
| method Of singing TO undo and san Gio-
| Nanni declared her ready for 'he stage.
Every day mother and daughter went
! 70 him for rehearsal, and in December.
! 1878, Lillian made her debut In ia
! Traylata," at Brcscia, before an audi
ence OF italian peasants who knew
! singing II they did not know how to be
| fashionable, Her success was immedl-
! ate and absolute, She almost tainted on
| the stage when the people rose to their
| feet and cheerod. The faithful mother
| tainted behind the scenes.
Then there was a more soph isticated
| If not a more critical, audience TO con-
/ quer at Genoa and Lillian Norton was
| firmly launched upon the oneratic sea
! II became custom among son Ciovan-
MS pupils I'm Milan to repeat the mas
ter's sayings regarding his fnvor'ta
| American pupil "Ah la Nordicn' she
has poetry She has fire." It was san
| Giovanni who chistened her Glgao Nor
dica, the lily of the NORTH
Nordica's first oporatic engagement
was for three months in St Petersburg.
In the Russian capital the lovely young
singer was often sent for by the car to
sing at the palace.
Such yards Of red tape to unwind out
side the door Of the royal apartments
Such freedom and good fellowship W tn
Int A,sl H., u a.. A
Sunday night on which Nordica sang
for the car, came the news Of his as
sassination.
During tho dark DAYS that followed
no one was allowed to leave the capital;
but as soon as police surveillance won Il
admit Of their departure. Lillian and
her mother went again to sunny ItalY
where the young operate singer studied
new roles with San Giovanni
MIR. Norton died during the first year
his wife and daughter were abroad ana
from that time Nordica had her moth
er as a constant companion up to the
time Of her death IN 1892. just how
much the great singer owes to this
mother is beyond estimate. But her de-
votlon was repaid in kind. The mo-
TIERS unselhshness and force If will arc
well shown by the fact that the cable
gram announcing her husbands death
was handed to her as she stood In the
wings of the Imperial opera house I'm st.
Petersburg, while her daughter was
singing on the stage. When Nordica
came of the scenes at the cnd of the
act the mother had her feelings under
such control that Lillian suspected
nothing, and not until the following
morning was she told Of hes fathers
death
And was this LILLY Of the North" to
live solely for her art? So Il seemed.
There We're no walks or drives with
men, nor theaters, nor balls, such as
delight the hearts Of American girls.
If n man chose to call. he might on
condition that he stopped not later than
10 o'clock and the daughter was ever
under the watchful chaperouage of her
mother.
There Were lovers in plenty, says Mrs.
Castillo. but though they might WOO
they might not win, until one day along
came a rich cousin of Mrs. Norton,
| Frederick Cover, who wOed and Won
After short acquaintance Lillian Nor
ton married her second cousin In july,
1855, at Paris
Covers career was somewhat unique,
The son of poor widow, he educated
himself and became city editor of the
Providence Journal. At one time he
wrote to Bell, the telephone man, ask
, ing him TO deliver lecture on his teie-
phone in Providence Bell in reply asked
Cover to come TO Boston and assist
him in preparing the lecture. Cover
became deeply interested In the inven-
ton, which he succeeded in improving
and simplifying and ultimately took out
patents for the Gower-Bell telephone,
After establishing a company he went
to France, where he took out patents
| an nrh tgb al him,
as president $4,000 year,
1t was about this time that he met
the Nortons and he had come TO appear
more the Frenchman than the Ameri-
can. In spite of the mothers care, how
ever, In the choice of husband for Lii
Ian, the marriage proved an unhappy
one. and after rs months the wife re-
turned to Boston and had JUST instituted
suit for separate maintenance when the
news came Of the disappearance of
Cover
Cover had worked out theory that
by the use of magnetism in the control
OF balloons they could be made of great
service for military and commercial
purposes TO test his theory Cover
started with French friend 60 cross
the English Channel and that was the
last OF them The balloon was seen
floating far out at sea by passing ship,
but Just how Cover met his death has
never been known His repuJed wealth
dwlndled pltfully when the estate came
TO be settled and the wiGog received
very little from It.. After several years
Of retirement she returned to the stags
TO continue her triumphs.
That these have been dearly bought
! Nordlcd would nave all the world know
FOR she says
Nothing comes to me bur through
work and perseverance, I work when
: do not want to. ] shut my doors and
dig into the bars. ] dream ~ them.
when a .rl / acquired the habit OF
going to work against all inclination, Tc
me | viii say frankly all things come
slowly and through toll. Ambition Is q
/, fearful master and tyrant, but | would
not exchange Il for another
! NOrdica's first tragic matrimanial cX-
perience did not discourage her from
embarking a second time on that trou.
blous eea, About i've years ago sht
married Ioltan Dome, young Hungar'
ian tenor, whom she met at Beyreuth
and to date the marriage Is reported a
happy one.
The fun program for Monday nightl
| big Tabernacle concert is as follows, Il
1 IL only on rare occasions that such M
l aggregation OF local talent is brought
: together and there should be grea
4. turnout to celebrate IT,
T Unfold Yc Portals. O.. Gouno(
- Tabernacle Choir
, n The Canbrlan War Song. 49,.
Y ....., D.. 49,, e. b, Brinley Richards
9 b Mary--Scotch ballad. ,.. Richardson
. Mr.. Chas, Kent.
2 Overture 60 "Tannhauser' Wagner
, Mr., j. j, Mcclellan.
D Selection from Carmen" .,.. .,Bize
e Violin solo. willard Weilie,
Mr., Arthur Shepherd, Accompanied,
1 n Die Possento (from the opera of
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