DE MURSKA'S INDISPOSITION.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 12, 7 May 1877, Page 2

DE MURSKA'S INDISPOSITION.

lhe Chronicle gives the following ver* sion :— >" Madame lima de Murska's in*, disposition, which has lately prevented her appearance iv open at tbe Baldwin Academy of Music is rendered the more deplorable wheu the circumstance is ex-i plained that the unavoidable disappoint* ment of ber numerous admirers is in na manner attributable ta the prima douea's. neglect of sanitary precautions or careless exposure to the night fogs npw prevalent. As* far as anxious inaturiea have ascertained, tbe indisposition or the song* stress grew out of au inad v ertgee in the acceptance of a booiweK The fto«b tribute was tendered by Herr Multer*. th*. baritone of the Optra Conyany, wd the. putative husband of Madame «übbn. lima received the offering most graciously, in the spirit in which it was bestowed, and was absorbed with the delicate firsgrance and exquisite structure of the. sweet posies, when her right eye sud-. denly experienced a prismatic effect that; changed the arrangement of the bouquet* toa stellar formation, and the prima donna caught a momentary glimpse of more stars than are comprised iv the whole chart of tbe visible heavens. About the same instant, Madame Fabbri turned ou her beel and returned into the flies, ex-*.

claiming, in vociferous German, somethin not written io the opera libretto, to tb effect tbat that wntthejort of a hairpi sbe was. De Mxtrsk* did not reply in tt same tongue, and tbe purport of her r. mark was not noted, xhe mdispositio occurred during rehearsal."