The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-21
SHE ACQUIRES FAME
Miss Ellen Beach Yaw'S Long Neck
and Her Sweet Voice.
THE LADY IS KNOWN HtRE
A Critic on the New York "Worid''
Goes Into Rhapsodies Over the
Towering, Graceful. Catching
Column of White Skin.

Nissoula. Jan. 20.-Missoula people,
especially those interested in music
remember Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, the
charming young woman who sang so
exouisitely in this city and at Fort
Nissoula a few years ago. She created
a furore here and her voice was pro-
nounced the finest ever heard in the
CITY. Miss Yaw is now under the hre
of eastern critics and is making
very favorable record. A recent issue
or the New York World devotes
large amount of space to the discussion
of the young lady's voice and neck,
both of which are very beautiful. The
article in the World is headed Miss
Ellen Beach Yaw, the Singer with the
wonderful Neck" and is preceded by
a portrait, which shows the neck to
its best advantage. Thearticle begins
like this:
1.-The most remarkable neck in the
world is the possession of one OF the
passengers on the American liner
Paris. This neck would arouse atten-
ton and be distinguished under any
circumstances, even If the owner were
not a beautiful and gracious American
girl, Miss Ellen Beach Yaw.
You would single out that neck in
any crowd 1t is so aggresively prom
inent and so attractive in its sinuous
length that you cannot help remark
ing it.
I'm the first place. you never saw a
neck quite so long on any woman out
side of a museum and. strange to say,
its owner is proud of its abnormal
length. Most women would seek TO hide
this towering expanse OF white SKIN,
but Miss Yaw, on the contrary, dresses
to emphasize the length of her neck.
l.. Nnn ell
firm white column, rising from grace
full shoulders and upholding a sweet
face eurmounted by a wealth of blonde
hair 1t is as flexible and graceful
as the neck of a swan, to which, indeed,
II has been frequently compared AS
suredly, when nature made this Won
derfnl neck 1t was with q, purpose. Its
extreme length becomes necessity
when you learn that the Yaw neck is
the home of the most altitudinous hui
man voice the world has ever known.
THE highest vocal range recorded
by history was that of LucreZta Al
ugari Mozart says that In ITO he
heard this soprano range from be-
low the staff TO c above high c. II
was a range of "a notes. Ajugar
could execute trills on the high ID and
this is noted in the Encyclopedia Brit
annica as the only known instance OF
the kind. This record stood for over a
century and then the Yaw neck came
along TO smash IL.
Miss Yaw is going to startle New
York with a voice that ranges from
G. below the staff to Z in altissimo
Think of the compassl Here II is
G a MISUNDERSTANDING
Think of IL! Twenty-seven full
tones! The highest note, Z, is above
the sixth leger line above the staff
Try and locate IL on the piano."
The article continues in an enthusi-
astic description of the Yaw voice and
compares its range with those of Nils
son and Patti. Yaw. discounts them all
The Missoula friends of this remark
able young woman will be pleased and
interested TO note the progress that
she has made. The writer quoted
above credits Miss Yaw's neck. in q
large measure. with her wonderful
range of voice. The article says thai
no short necked woman could sing
like that.