A PRIMA DONNA'S PERILS.
Mdme. Adelina Patti has been communicating a few personal reminiscences to the Figaro, from which it appears that the life of a prima donna is far from being the spoilt existence that one would take it to be. People may not believe it, but the position is one which for dangers surpasses that of the Czar of Russia. They are caused by her rivals, she thinks, but Ihev go beyond the limits of permissible rivalry. " Once during a performance of Linda," she says, "I received a number of bouquets, the last of which was composed very oddly. One of the flowers fell out of it on to the stage, making a regular thud. It consisted of an enormous ball of lead, which, if it had been more firmly tied to the bouquet, must have struck my head. Aa it was, the bouquet hit my shoulder." On anothsr occasion the curtain fell on Madame Patti'a head, and she was saved only by the fashion then prevailing of rolling up her hair high upon her head ; but it was not a mere accident. She has had matches put into the water she drinks, and has even received poisoned gloves with a request to let the maker call them by her name. After this revelation no one can wonder she gets £1000 a night occasionally.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6780, 12 February 1884, Page 4
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226A PRIMA DONNA'S PERILS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6780, 12 February 1884, Page 4
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