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Show Mmc. Tatti's Troubles. I Madame Adollna Patti has postponed indefinitely her performance ycheduled for Philadelphia, and it was whispered niong Broadway that the indications were that the prima donna would soon abandon her tour and leave the United States never to return, says the New York Sun. Patti has been making farewell fare-well tours through this country for a score of years now, but there seems every reason to believe that this season will be the last, final, ultimate "farewell." "fare-well." The present tour has not proved a great success, slim houses having marked it, and the principal reason for abandoning, for the present at least, the Philadelphia concert is because of the disappointing lack of demand for tickets. tick-ets. It wat In the same city In February, Febru-ary, i860, within si:: years of half a century cen-tury ago, that Patti aroused to the warmest enthusiasm a great and distinguished dis-tinguished audience, including the Nation's Na-tion's guest, the Prince of "Wales, now Edward VII. of England. The Prince, according to contemporary accounts, "c.pplaudcd frantically." Just 17 years old at that lime was "our little Patti," as the diva was affectionately called. Troubles have multiplied for Mme. Patti throughout her present tour. In ndaltlor. to the i'lack sale of seats In Philadelphia, which, it is said, makes it doubtful If the prima donna will sing in that city at all during the present -tour, she now is threatened with a law suit. Yesterday Anton Hegner, formerly a 'celist in the Patti company, had an attachment at-tachment Issued against Robert Grau, managing Mme. Patti's tour, to collect ?2S0O which he alleges Is due him for back salary. The complainant plans to get his money by seizing the concert receipts. re-ceipts. Hegner alleges that he Joined the tour under contract at 5150 per week, but was told in San Francisco that his services were no longer required re-quired His contract, he declares, entitles en-titles him to the money. The Scranton, Pa., engagement of Patti was canceled because the muslc-lovmg muslc-lovmg people there had only bought ?L'2.r0 worth of advance seats. This is regarded as queer, especially as only three weeks before 12,000 crowded to the several renditions of the cantata, "Elijah," "Eli-jah," and early in the season Nordlca had over a $5000 house. "These stories are all false. It Is not true that my lour will be abandoned-" Such was the comment of Mme. Patti In Philadelphia, referring to the reports of trouble with her manager, "You may say," she went on, "that a great deal is being said for which there la no foundation. My husband, the Baron Cedarstrom, is not in the city, but he did not, as was reported, go to New York for the purpose of saying unpleasant unpleas-ant things to my manager, Mr. Robert Grau." |