Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — How Patti and Nilsson Once “Rassalled.” [ARTICLE]

How Patti and Nilsson Once “Rassalled.”

The Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia Times tells of a dinner party in that city in DU*, where Patti aud Nilsson met, relating the following extraordinary occurrence: Coffee was served in the salon, and Ambroise Thomas tried to induce both Nilsson and Patti to sing something, but neither would consent to do so, although the eminent composer volunteered to play the accompaniments. “I have eaten too much to be able to sing,” said la Patti; and then she added, “but I am ready to wrestle with Nilsson if she likes.” “Ras-sal! qu’est ce que e’est quo ca ?” asked Saint Armand, who knows no language but French, and that not as well as he ought to. Explanations followed, and then took place a laughable, not to say somewhat naughty, trial of strength between the two rival divas. Mile. Patti made quite a plucky struggle, but in the end Nilsson put her fairly on her back, amid loud applause led by the illus.rious composer of “Faust.” Then some one suggested that Gounod and Thomas should wrestle, but they declined, and the athletic entertainment was broken up by the Prince going to the piano, where he sang a love air from “Pliilomene et Faucis” to his own accompaniment. — Texas Siftings.

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