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Show IE, PATTI DIES ! II WELSHCASTLE Celebrated Diva Expires at Her Home at Craig-y-Nos, Penycae. LONDON, Sept. 27. Adelina Patti, the prima donna, died this moruing at Craig-y-No3 cay tie, .Penycae. youth Wales. j Mmc. Adelina Patti roigncd for forty j years as queen of singers. Her marvelous voice thrilled the greatest contemporaries of her day. The ! elder Pumas, t h c F ro n c h d ra ni a t : i s t . I once said to her: j "Being a man and a Christian, I love to listen to your singing; but if 1 were j a bird 1 would die of envy." ''She has tones so beautiful." said one eminent musical' critic, "that they stomed io gush spontaneously from the very fountain-spring of vocal youth." Mme. Patti inherited her talent. 'I am a child of t he stage." she has said, "being born during an operatic season at Madrid, Spain, in IS K!. My father, Salvatore Patti, a Sicilian, was a good lenor singer. My motl.-r. a Roman, became a famous artist as Sig-nora Sig-nora linrili the name of her first husband.'1 hus-band.'1 Dwindling finances sent tho Patii family to New York when Adelina. whose birth name was Adeln J nana Maria Patti, was a bo by. When she was seven yoars old. her, parents sud-d sud-d e n 1 v became destitute. "'in the emergency," the singer said, ' niv mother considered that 1 had extraordinary ex-traordinary vocal talent, and hit upon the idea of bringin g up out In concert. con-cert. And so I sang and soon won bread for the family. ' ' The child made her d.duit at Triider hall, in New York, singing arias from The "Pv:rber," in I-Vi. Sin' w:i th- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6 I . . .. ... c-- in ' 1 .:! S.t.ivvvI-': -. ': . j ,(.:. 1 onden. ,M .-!.- i i. i i ; is h""":'-" ' ' . 1 . ,,..,;:,, M ,-! 1 '..'- i i..,;,u-.i 'vr '--'7.,: 1'!h- h,-u-::;';: .tt W.w.t I.-, l-.'.t ' J ,-n-uU-:- ! f e ;V . i, . ijoii! M !!. '' ' ;, i n. r;;-v ' t,. v'-'- .; " ., ,Iimv,c 'i .;, .. MiVlE. PATH niES : IR WELSH CASTLE; (CVuUmtpil 1'io.n Va..o One ) 111 V .Mill.' pi,',io' Ot' 111" ,!.,v, IHl'l ll.Mi'v iiiini',1 l.-r l-v ,.,...ik. s'.. in P'-.ii.-.l ii.;.-iin nt tin- ,.,. ,,) f".-i II I. MM' llllniivjl tin- ,... 1,1.1-,-s. s'n- wittolii'w to pi . -1 -, 1 1 . lor ;l i; : r.i ; ,v .-.i I I'l l', VI I'"' nee ,( i.-',-,-ii ii;.;-,- u - 1 in the Vi :i.;,-ii-. ,.' Mime, ,- . . in li'-i l.i.l i-i ei i i pi,-, " I i-, ii ,ii 1 ri. '! 1 "'""I " Hi! ell lei . Ill . e mi:-..- I th,. j,,,.!,, ,, ,. i,, ,' ;; .... t I'l' -i :l - in , nn. liei I , in. ,.,. lie. I ''.'. V ! t In. I in, she i i i , :i. -,- I. - I Ho- i i-'i n I ,., !,. . on 1 1; .--. 1 .-ii I'" i |