The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-15
THE YOUNG AMERICAN PRIMA DONNA

We clip the following interesting scrap o
gossip relative to our young prima donna
Miss Annie Montague, from Olive Logan
seaside letter to the Baltimore American
We have already had many very fatterine
notices of her success, and though she is moi
a New Orleans lady, we take pleasure in no.
ticing her success, as she is from our OWL
country:
We have in our circle two or three pretty
young women who sing very nicely indeed,
and our chats being diversified with vocal
music, we naturally fell to talking of
| PRIMA DoNNAS,
many Of the most celebrated of whom I
have CHANGED to know intimately. We spoke
of our favorite, Clara Louise Kellogg, among
others; and naturally the material of her new
opera company came under discussion.
promised my friends, who had not vet heard
her, a new delight in the coming Baltimore
prima donna, of whom let me say word to
my Baltimore friends too.
One winter evening in Paris. year and a
half ago. l went with my Inseparable to
church concert which was given in the Ameri-
can Chapel in the Rue de Berri. Some Ameri-
can ladies were announced to sing, and In
separable and l were especially struck by the
lovely quality of a strong, clear young voice,
the possessor OF which We found by reference
to the programme to bear the name OF
ANNIE MONTAGUE
few days afterwards we were waiting at
the station at La Madelaine for an omnibus to
convey us to the Rue dc, Lafayette, when In.
separable said, pointing to young girl, mod |
estly clad in black, who was also waiting:
THAT is the young lady who sang at the |
church the other night"
Compatriots abroad do not need much |
formality of introduction, and we were soon |
chatting pleasantly. By Miss Montague's in.
vltation we went day or two afterwards to |
hear her sing in the rooms of her preceptor
in Rue Haleyy. We took some music lovers
along with US, and after Miss Montague had |
sung, an enthusiastic lady from Michigan
said positively "Miss Kellogg herself can not
10 any better than that!
Miss Montagues voice is a powerful, dra- |
matte soprano, clear as bell, and of most
'greeable quality, while her personal appear
nee is simply bewitching. Imagine the fair
st of compilations, through which maidenly
bushes fit most unexpectedly, lips like ripe
trawberries buried in cream tip-tilted nose.
rown chestnut hair-wel button your over
OATS ye youth of Baltimore, when Annie
ONES to sing to you next winter; that is, if
on desire to keep your hearts within your
reasts.
We afterwards called on Annie at her own
ome-a little skyward apartment" which
ord in French means whole suite of apart.
lents-in street near the railway station of
t. Lazare. She was living alone with maid:
'ther dreary life, solitary, peopled only by
or studies.
cts hard on me, rather" she said; GIVE
ways been used to company"
Being denoiselle, the customs of the
'untry forbade her receiving calls or going
1T with any but married couples An en-
usiastic young New Yorker invited her to
, to the opera with him, and was nightly
ltfed when she told him it wasn't proper
"But my art viii! reward me some day: it
lows all the sacrifices 1 have made for it,"
10 said.
Gov. McCook, of Colorado, was speaking
her to me here at Long Branch the other
y. He knew her when she was in govern
ent service at the Sandwich Islands. She
IS then little girl, living in Honolulu, bat
.eady the possessor of tins lovely voice.
If Annie Montague can only act the roles in
era for which she will be cast next season
well as she can sing them, or only half as
III as she can look pretty in them, the
nerlcan prima donna par excellence, Clara
uise Kellogg, will have to hang on to those
lrels of hers with desperate grip, or con-
1t to let part of them rest On the shapely
i'd of the new conner