Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-23

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child; and this detection left q profound
impression on the child herself, as if she,
too then first made a discovery of what was
in her. The story formed her earliest dis
tinct memory. Coming up from the coun-
try to the town, she was struck by the music
of the military bugles that daily passed
through the street; and one day, when she
fancied herself alone in the house, she crept
to the piano on which her half-sister used to
practice her music, and with one finger,
strummed out for herself the fanfare which
she had caught from the soldiers But the
grandmother was at hand, and hearing the
music, called out the name of the half sis
ter, whom she supposed it to be; and little
Jenny, in terror at being found out, hid
under the square piano; she was so
small that she fitted in perfectly;
and the grandmother, getting no answer to
her calls, came in to look, and presently
discovered her, and dragged her out, and
was astonished and said: "Child, was that
you?" And Jenny, in tears at her crime,
confessed; but her grandmother looked at
mother came back she told her, and said:
''Mark my words, that child will bring you
help" And after that the neighbors used
to be called in to hear her play. As she
told the story in later years she would re-
produce most wildly the frightened look
of the child creeping away to hide, and the
significant look of the wonderstruck grand
mother as she took in that it was in | ,ed the
tiny creature of 3 years old who had played
the tune. She never forgot the historic fan
fare.
Composer and Cantatrice Fidgety.
Passing over her education at the Gov
ernment expense, and her mothers dislike
to the stage-a distaste to be felt later on
by Jenny Lind herself, as everyone knows
we come to the explanation of her dra-
matte power. She took speaking parts, it
appears, while still quite young, showing
lin her acting quick perception, a fire and
feeling, far beyond her years" 1t is need
less to follow the artists budding career
step by step-let us see what Herr Joseph
Son wrote I'M his diary fBerlin, 1S45):
Meyerbeer was altogether enchanted with
Jenny's singing, and embraced her at the
end of the rehearsal. January4: Rehearsed
again in the morning. l drove back with
Meyerbeerand Jenny. Ibegged the maestro
that l, too, might be allowed to express my
thanks for his beautiful opera, and he an
ewered me in very gracious manner. He
Is most polite man; something of the
courtier; something of the man of genius;
something of the man of the world, and has
in addition, something fidgety about his
whole being. Before reproducing the opera
with Jenny Lind he called upon her, to the
best of my belief, at least a hundred
times, to consult about this, that,
sanity, curtails here, dovetails there,
and thus, by his eagerness and anxiety pre-
vents the spontaneous growth of the work,
and impartS fragmentary character to it's
beauty. Jenny was extremely successful
in her debut as VieIkd. Her singing was
beautiful, her acting full of genius, life and
fire. The applause was spontaneous and en-
thusiastic. Her nervousness, which had
kept her practicing the whole afternoon and
again before the beginning of the opera, was
not noticed by anyone; neither did it pre-
vent her either from singing OF acting her
very best The public was enchanted, and
Meyerbeer happy ~. Where the moving
is the nobility of art the public
sees this, and is astonished and fascinated.
How she will be missed when she is gone!
The Poet Bum as Bogie.
Of the really great Alfred Bum, the
famous poet and lessee of Drury Lane,
Mdlle. Lind, through some complex events
which are related at length in the book,
had quite horror. Ignorant of what tribu-
lation she was laying in store
for herself, Jenny Lind, in
moment, signed contract