A Proud Moment.
" Patti at Craigy-y-Nos " is rapturously described by Mr Arthur Warren in M'Clure's Magazine. Mr Warren's visit was paid during a sort of family gathering, and he tells how they all joined in singing "For she's a jolly good fellow," and even Patti joined us in the refrain of the medley of music hall airs, beginning with London's latest mania, " Daisy Bell, or a bicycle made for two," and winding up with Chevalier's " Old Kent Road " and the " Coster's Serenade," Coburn's "Man that broke the bank'at Monte Carlo," and the transatlantic "Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow." With the audacity peculiar to the interviewer, Mr .Warren asked her to specify "what had been the proudest experience in her career." "For a great unexpected honor most gracefully tendered," said she, "I have experienced nothing that has touched me deeper than a compliment paid by the Prince of Wales and a distinguished company at a dinner given in honor of- the Duke of York and Princess May a little while before their wedding. The dinner was given by Mr Alfred Rothschild, one of my oldest and best friends. There were many royalties-present, and more dukes and duchesses than I can easily remember. During - the ceremonies the Prince of Wales arose, and to my great astonishment, proposed the health of his 'old and valued friend Madame Patti., He made such a pretty speech, and, in the course of it, said that he had first seen and heard me in Philadelphia in 1860, when I sang in 'Martha,' and that since then his own attendance at what he was good enough to call my ' victories in the realm of song' had been ameng his most pleasant recollections. He recalled the fact that .... his wife had held up little Prince George, in whose honor we were this night assembled, and bade Him kiss me, so that in after life he might day that he had ' kissed the f?mous Madame Patti.' And then, do you know, tbat whole company of royalty, nobility, and men of genius rose and cheered me and drank my health." •
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5904, 28 March 1894, Page 1
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350A Proud Moment. Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5904, 28 March 1894, Page 1
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