DOWNFALL OF ADELINA PATTI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 7

DOWNFALL OF ADELINA PATTI.

We aro fast coming to the state of atrophy common to the provinces, where complete fossilisation is only interrupted by the commission of some unusually henious crime, or the chance arrival of some troupe of strolling actors. Apropos of these last, their most distinguished representatives, the PattiNicolini combination, have just bolted from Naples, some people say without paying their hotel bill, certainly without fulfilling their engagement at the San Carlo, whose manager has gone to law about it. The pnor Diva made a great mistake when she bartered herself and her talent for the coronet of a marquis, but if her husband went too fast, as she pretends, M. De Caux iB a gentleman, whose great error was to contract a "mesalliance" with an actreas, and no one can feel an instant's sympathy with a woman who lost her reputation for a nasty, scrofulous tenor. She had passed unscathed through the tiery furnace of aristocratic temptation ; she had repulsed the homage of kings and princes, only to go to the bad in the vulgar company of a mountebank, who thrashes her when she refuses to comply with his exactions.— New York Timed.