. Programme. Chocolates (TWO GRADES) ON SALE AT THE BETTER STORES. that lie was not sure of his tenor. Niemann was engaged at a salaryof six thousand francs a month. Mme. Tedesco, the creator of Venusin the Paris version, received the same sum. Fortunata Tedesco, of Mantua, in 1847 drew all men unto her atthe Howard Athenaeum. She was twenty-one j^ears old when she camehere as a member of the Havana Opera Troupe. When she sang, theseats commanded a premium of .fl or i|f5. It was in Ernani thatshe shone with dazzling brilliance, although she also appeared inNorma, Saffo, The Barber of Seville,

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. Programme. Chocolates (TWO GRADES) ON SALE AT THE BETTER STORES. that lie was not sure of his tenor. Niemann was engaged at a salaryof six thousand francs a month. Mme. Tedesco, the creator of Venusin the Paris version, received the same sum. Fortunata Tedesco, of Mantua, in 1847 drew all men unto her atthe Howard Athenaeum. She was twenty-one j^ears old when she camehere as a member of the Havana Opera Troupe. When she sang, theseats commanded a premium of .fl or i|f5. It was in Ernani thatshe shone with dazzling brilliance, although she also appeared inNorma, Saffo, The Barber of Seville, and as Komeo. ColonelW. W. Clapp tells us, in his Record of the Boston Stage, that thehonors paid to her attained their greatest excess in the casting ather feet of a warm admirers hat and cane, in token of his own entireprostration. Richard Grant White, whose appreciation of women was not con-fined to the heroines of Shakespeare, thus describes her:— Tedesco was a great, handsome, ox-eyed creature, the picture oflovely laziness until she was excited by music;

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