The sun., 1919-03-02

OF the public as we'll as the village
| population gathered in front OF the
inn, as care free and irresponsible as
she danced about in her satin slippers
as IL she had not refused to put them
| on in her dressing room until the
money had been brought to her. BY
her contract with Col. Mapleson she
did not have to appear on the stage
until she had received her cachet.
This was indeed the old way Of giving
opera.
Patti Goes to Grau.
But he was destined to lose this
lodestone Of the public in spite of his
Difference to all her demands. Nine.
Patti began to sing more in this coun-
try now and less in Europe. She came
over here with Henry Abbey the next
year in concert and opera, the opera
being chiefly in New York This was
in 1890, after she had made a tour of
South America where 1t was said the
music loving populace hit on the plan
OF pawning the piano to buy a ticket
to hear the diva Soon she began the
profitable habit of farewell" tours.
which she kept up year after year.
She was at the Madison Square Gar
den In 1892, singing for the first time
In a building so large that the prices
could be made popular. Standing
nearly block away, the men and
women saw. more than heard. the great
diva, whose voice could not of course,
begin to I'LL the vast hall Mime. Patti
came back the next year to repeat the
experiment, but selected Carnegie Hall
IN preference to the larger audience
room downtown. When she went back
to London in the spring she always
gave her concert at Albert Hall, and
Kept that up until a few years ago.
She even returned in 1894 to sing a
| season at Covent Garden and was re-
| ceived with great warmth.
How she always managed TO make
money, whatever the fate of her i'm
presario might be. was shown by her
| tour here-really her farewell-in the
| season of 1903-1904. Robert Grau was
her manager. She was to receive S.
600, but unless a certain amount had
come into the box office by o'clock in
the afternoon it was the privilege OF
the impresario to cancel the concert.
Nine. Patti travelled from town to
town, only to have the concert can
celled because of public indifference.
by this process the manager lost thou
sands and his hacker was driven into
bankruptcy. But, Nine. Patti sang In
all about forty times So she-as her
expenses were paddock back to Eng
land about 100000 although every
body else connected with the tour was
bra Y
other singers. did not lose her earn
ings In speculation or poor investment,
Alfred Rothschild is said to have d.
rected always the investments she
made. and to-day her wealth Is esti-
-slsS ed at between tsuP milffy. and tf,-s
million dollars.
Craig-y-Nos in Wales is her home
and there with her husband. old VIII
nelm CAM, who died few years ago
and one or two minor professionals. her
recent years have been passed. There
was none or the brilliancy at one time
so fully described in the newspapers,
where she was reported to reign as a
kind OF queen. Her companions have
been humble and her life quiet in its
closing hours.
Her Affairs OF the Heart.
Adelina Patti was said in her youth
to be in love with Maurice Strakosch.
But he married her sister Amalia.
When very young she met the Marquis
de CauN. an equerry attached to the
court OF Napoleon III. He had position
and she fame. youth and beauty. But
the marriage, which took place on July
20. did not bring her the lofty social
position she had expected. Instead she
found herself still received even at a
Napoleonic court as only a singer
Then the French law was by way OF
giving to her husband the control OF
her earnings. So divorce came
! finally. 1t took another divorce, how
ever to make her happy, since Ernesto
Nicolini, the tenor, with whom she fell
IN love now, was already married. But
taat matter Wis also settled after "A
While and Nine. Patti lived most hap
pity with the singer until his death in
, 1888 Within a year she married "A
young Swedc in London who called
himself Baron Cedarstrorl. lie Is still.
alive and the marriage has bacn ac-