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Show ADEUNA PATH. ?.-'-:.Kv,'";-"1? -VvS '. ;-' w. fr'S? ; : -n Iv - . : .- ; Madam Adelina PattI, the world-" world-" famed singer, whose picture is printed herewith, will be with us on Monday, - Jan. 4, to delight the lovers of the . grand, the sublime and the beautiful in the soul-enchanting dreamland of musical talent and art. Those who saw and heard her some twelve or fourteen years ago will be all the more desirous to see and hear her again, while those who have never seen nor heard her will not have folly enough to miss this never to be forgotten treat 1 it will be their last chance. I The history of. Madam Patti's life is I as interesting as her talent is unique. . j Two St. Loui3 ladies speak of remem-I remem-I bering Adelina Pattt in that city when 1 she n mfr slin nf n sMil She I was then about 9 years of age, and no i prettiness had, yet, developed. She was very wild,-' too. 'and' used to give her. big brother-in-law. Maurice. Stra-kosch, Stra-kosch, no end of trouble. The little company was detained in St. Louis for six weeks by reason of the river being frozen over, there being no bridges in those days. 'It" is marvelous to think that she sings there again just about one-half century later. Now a metropolis, St. Louis was then little more than a frontier town. Thus the desire to see and hear Pa tti has been gratified djtring a remarkable remark-able span cf life. She has sung almost al-most the world over, and here in America, Amer-ica, where her voice received its first j recognition and where she achieved her first triumphs, she has returned with such frequency that the Patti farewell tours -have become a byword. It is only natural that the tours should have been thus designated, for Patti has always al-ways been well managed, and her man. agers have been keenly alive to the 1 unique distinction that was hers. No other such figure had ever appeared in 311 the history of song. To be sure, there were great singers before Patti and great fingers contemporary with her. but there has never been another Adelina Patti, never another singer who combined with a birdlike voice" a dramatic genius of acting her song as she could. Her life story smacks of fiction. It begins in such humble paths and traverses trav-erses such highways of roses, reaps 'such stores of riches and acquires so much of all that is coveted by humankind human-kind that' it seems a fairy tale which even an active imagination could scarcely improve upon. It may be said of her that she has found her heaven here upon earth, and it might as truly be said of her that she has given multitudes mul-titudes in many countries heavenly moments of pure unalloyed bliss. It seems a pity that such a voice j should ever fade, for there is none to replace it. There are other singers, but only one Patti. and the fifty years she has been before the public have not developed .a single rival the world over to compare with her. Nor will this voice ever be heard again. This time it is the last. Those who miss her will miss forever the final strains of the greatest of all singers. |