DOWNFALL OF ADELINA PATTI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 185, 14 June 1879, Page 2

DOWNFALL OF ADELINA PATTI.

Wo are fast coming to tho state ot atrophy common to the provinces, where complete fossilization is only interrupted by the comission of some unusally henious crime, or the chance arrival of some . troupe of strolling actors, Apropos of these last, their most distinguished representatives, the Piitti-KicoM combination, have just bolted from Naples, some people say without paying their hotel bill, certainly without fulfilling ohesr engagement at the San Carlo' whose manager has gone to"la\v about it. The poor 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 is a gentleman, whose great error was to contract a ' • mesalliance" with an actress), 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 fiery furnace of aristocratic temptation ; she had repulsed die homage of kings and princes, only, to «o to the bad in the vulgar company, of a mountbank, who .tiimalies her when sho erases to comply with his exactions.— New York Times.