The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-03-24
--lzgTsxs Lament Of an Avar!cious Wo-

~ aGame Pattl has gone nome 10
sz2zzz1<.vope and will never return to the
6 s9mit ed States. She is a specimen Of
:. szac3l-avarice and rapacity that SEN
sale Americans will call her a good
szsS2dance She expected to earn
:sssssss8}G 81, 900 in sixty concerts, and size
gzm@ents she did not earn more than
- $50 900. One hundred thousand
-@SIo 4 airs will cover all her expendi-
zz12res in this country, and she ad-
EEzats she expected to clear $500, COO
Sxssen=she came here. The 5000, GOO.
faaes not satisfy her avarice and her
zessacity She thus whines out her
semplaint to reporter for the New
oGk Journal:
America is indeed strange place,
An Americans are strange people.
~9ace I thought your country was
vsezzae place for art, but [ see cow that
INSISTS should never come here.
The continent is so different. There
art is understood by all and art is at
home. Here art knocks at the door
Like a stranger and the public re-
SALTS it like beggar.
Americans like prize fights and
-saeh things They will spend their
ezmoney to see brutality, but when
~zsz,rt is the thing the purse strings
re pulled. In Philadelphia the
yssize fight brought out the entire
zssepulace, while my engagement was
s.9-ancelled. Once thought the day
~s~osdd never come when the Ameri-
.e&cans would sooner see prize hight
T-eaaassa hear me sing. l thought UNI
-.4Gserstood them and that they loved
e1ae, but it is so different now.
Ia fact, as | see America with my
yes opened, [ find it most unde-
szrable place There is little here to
~<2ssrmend and great many things
zs@zo deplore. I have not enjoyed my
seasaar at ALL and 1 shall be glao when
- @eave. I am really mortified to
.z=hink of how [ have been subjected
9aa she prevalent vulgarity of Ameri-
s=Saas
4 shall not say farewell to the stage
kzere as [ had intended. 1t was my
g4ian to make my final performance
-asfsny American tour my goodby to
s2ae footlights, but [ shall wait un
laid return to England, and some
cassazae next season I shall sing in Al
.e47zS=es&x>s Hall for the last time and for
eseas leave the stage
Eow much have I earned on this
+@=zs<aIr? Well, really not very much.
e OK know, [ had expected about
Sse0, 600, but what with managerial
aazou bles and horrid deputy sheriffs
4 Ssaink have not earned more than
ss@1 600.
Patti forgets that she exacted S.
szssSg all the seats at her concert,
s=aaich was an exorbitant price,
zS&sereas for prize fight or any 9th
~.r atheletic sport SO cents to So in
xares an excellent seat. Americans
begin better to understand the
~1sasrth of money and therefore they
a18E1sed to give Patti full houses
Consequently this insufferably avar-
assous woman concludes that art is
szs . discount in the United States
because our people refused any long
>esr 60 be humbugged and would t
,-aav five dollars seat.
We hope 40 more PATHS will come
aasR che United States, as our indus
F1rSous people have been pilterred of
as1@usands Of dollars by foreign sing
-&Has. Art is good thing, but when
"a person can realize in less than
Sssar four times the salary OF the
president of the United States, peo-
gst# xySlI conclude that the recipient,
ewFao is complainer, exhibits the
-zaewy quintessence of human avarice.
Patti ntends to deliver series of
81 Eeweil concerts in England, but
!, assR@ wiil find it more difficult to hum
ING her people out of their hard
4szsaea money than to humbug the
fashionable people of the United
ss so ases, thous ands who believe that
zxnything that is high-priced must
re very good.-Evening Wisconsin.