Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-26

Purple-fruited Anaheim.
MARINER J. KENT.
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
sDzrED BY BELLE MEADE SMITH.
The Les Angeles Conservatory OF
Which is located at 406 South Main
street, and is exclusively controlled
by Mrs. Emily G. Valentine, is an
institution which Southern California
cannot too highly appreciate. 1t was
established five years ago, and since
that time it has been kept constantly
before the public by the press, which,
from the first, has been warmly in
sympathy with it, and by its enter
tainments, the superiority of which
have already been SO extolled. Music,
musical literature, the languages
and elocution are the branches
Of study to which the conservatory is
devoted; but annexed to these accom-
plishments, art Of every variety can
be pursued under the skillful direction
of Mrs. Myra E. Kinsey. Professor
C. f. L. O. Roehrig has resigned the
chair of languages which he previous
" filed but his vacancy has been sup
piled by Fraulein A. Werner, Profess
eor Dietz, late of Paris, and Professor
Bransby, who is already so well known
in this city. Miss Regina Buckle, who
enjoys the reputation Of be-
ing the finest musical critic
in Los Angeles, and whose
methods are uncommonly good, is
conspicuously identified with the vo-
cal department. Miss Helen Mar
Bennett, who is also associated with
the Baptist College, instructs the
classes in elocution, and Professor
Hamilton conducts the string and vio-
lin quartettes, which meet weekly at
the conservatory. Mrs. Valentine,
assisted by her daughter, Miss Adel
tina, teaches the piano, organ and har-
mony. All of the pianos used in the
different class-rooms are new and ex-
pensive instruments, while the large or
gan, which was made in and sent from
Cincinnatiis almost, if not quite equal
in power to any church organ in this
city. 1t was purchased by Mrs. VAL
entine for the especial use of students
who wish to study the organ, and who
are prevented from practising in the
churches. 1t therefore affords to any
organist who sees fit to avail himself,
or herself, of it, opportunities for inn
provement which it is impossible to
obtain anywhere else. There is no
class-work done in the building, ex-
cept by request, and students are at
liberty to make their own selections OF
teachers. Yet the public has fallen into
the popular error of supposing that
NO private instructions are given, and
that certain things can only be taught
by certain people. This is a mistake,
for although Mrs. Valentine does
teach the piano, if anyone prefers q
German, or a man, to herself, she is
ready to furnish the same. The art
department is quite as complete as
the musical department, for Mrs.
Kinsey is not only born, but q train
ed artist. She can work successfully
in any branch Of her profession, while
she has q peculiar aptitude for impart-
ing her information to others. She
instructs in water, oil, china and
lustra painting, as we'll as in crayon,
drawing, modelling and wood carving,
It was her pupils, indeed, who did
the carving upon the famous organ
of the College Of Music at Cincinnati
As far as Mrs. Valentine herself is
concerned, she is a highly gifted
woman, who has had q long and
remarkable musical career. When
q child, she travelled with Jenny Lind
with whom she was great favorite
but her first music lessons were re-
ceived from her mother, then a we'll
known musician, and who, although
she was too i'll to leave her couch
was enthusiastic enough to pursue
her beloved art. For three genera
tions the Valentines have been con
spicuously identified with the musica
world, and Mrs. Emily Valentine ha
successfully labored in New York
Boston and Cincinnati. She has il
her scrap-book the programme of al
entertainment given by herself il
1860, and she is the only person il
Los Angeles who is mem Der of tn
Music Teachers National Associa
tion. Mrs. Valentine is not onl
an enthusiast about music, whicl
she insists comes next to religion
but she is an ardent believer in Lo
Angeles, which she thinks has gres
future. She says that two years ag'
she visited San Francisco for the pur
pose of comparing the two cities fror
an artistic standpoint, and tina
although she was unprejudiced, an
as well made a careful Investigation
she is convinced that music, art an,
literature have far-better field her
than there. But the high mora
character of the conservatory is pei
haps its best credential. Mrs. Valen
tine realizes the fact, too often ignore,
by those who are entrusted with tn
education of the young, that onl
those who are themselves above re
pr0ach are competent to mould tn
mind and character of the innocen
and inexperienced. Consequently
she never admits into her institution
no matter how well qualified he or sh
may be intellectually, any teacher
whom the most solicitous parent coul
reasonably object.
Youthful Prodigies
Seldom if ever wear we'll. Like th
blossoms touched by the untimely froi
they droop before they expand. Ev
in Uncle Toms Cabin, the baby i
Hearts of OAK, the children who 6
touchingly appear in The Silver KIN
and the innumerable other little one
who beautify SO many other plays
certainly lend purity and patho
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