The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06
ADJUSTMENTS.

Salt Lake is just now entertaining
an angel unawares. Surely if our PEG
pie had had any idea of the marvel
they would have beheld by visiting the
Congregational church last evening,
that place would have been thronged
instead Of containing the mere hand
full of people which assembled. The
child Paloma is a genius straight from
the gates of Paradise. People who
read in the Sunday papers that Melba
had said of her that she was destined
to make the present century memoir
able in music, doubtless thought it
was mere advertising dodge, but
those who listened to the child last
evening realize that if Melba did make
such prediction, she did not go at all
outside the bounds of probability. The
little Paloma-her real name is Paloma
!, Schramm-is a child of ten; seated in
front of big piano she looks mere
tot who might have climbed upon the
stool to hammer at the keys and do
untold damage to them in childish
mischief. When this wee mite of
humanity, after having the attach
ments to the pedals fitted so that her
feet could reach them-began to pour
forth a flood of brilliant melody and
the piano began to throb and vibrate
with harmonies struck by an almost
masculine touch, the audience simply
gasped and rubbed its eyes. When
the sprite of a performer climbed down
and made her modest bow, after hav-
ing reeled off Mozart's Fantasia" as
very few professionals in town could
do it, q storm of applause went up that
almost confused her. In quick order
followed selections of the ultra
classique order from Rubinstein, Schu-
bert, Schumainn and Chopin, and
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own composition, all betraying a
breadth and completion nothing short
of astounding. The audience was
solicited to hand UP themes for her to
elabocate upon, improvising at sight;
a number of professionals sent in slips,
among them Professor Daynes and
Arthur Shepherd; Daynes' theme was
the first few bars of the familiar
Mormon hymn 80 My Father" The
little one took it up, wound it, twisted
it, shook it out, spun variations on it,
conducted it through maze of keys,
all the time preserving the original
air. for fully SIX or eight minutes;
when she concluded the audience
seemed ready to rise and shout out
it's enthusiasm.
She played several duets with her
| 7-year-old sister, midget of hardly
less of a marvel than herself.
Paloma is surely destined to be one
of the worlds musical wonders. His
tory is fond of recording that Mozart
struck chords at the age of 3, and
was a composer at s.; that Beethoven
electrified Europe when he was IL;
! that Chopin began at 8, and that
List gave his first concert at 6. 1t
may sound presumptuous to say it, but
it is in every way probable that this
childs achievements will one day be
as much talked about and marveled
about as those of the great masters
whose works she now interprets.
There is a plan to have Paloma re-
main over to give our school children
a chance to hear her. 1t should be sue
cessful, for it affords an opportunity
for children at all unsteady inclined to
behold something that will serve as
an inspiration all their lives.
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There was a good audience, but not
such an audience as Hi Henry was ac-
customed to draw, at the Grand last
evening to greet the latest innovation
| from Lincoln Carriers seething brain,
Chattanooga" AS it's name indicates,
it is a war play, pure and simple, and
there is never a moment that the smell
of burning powder does not permeate
the atmosphere. In action, story and
] dialogue, the play is rather above the
Carter type; in some effects rather be-
low 1t, and the passing caravan of
horses on pasteboard was rather too
mech for the risibilities of the galleries.
1t is intelligently played by a capable
company, and the various exciting sit
uations caused the gallery to simply
lean over and yowl. An amusing fea-
ture of the evening was the presence
of row of stalwart Indian bucks
from the reservation, witnesses in the
whisky selling cases, and proteges last
night of Attorney Whittemore. They
watched the performance with stolid
faces throughout-it is beneath the dig
nifty of your true Indian to express de-
| light with any thing-but once, when the
villain discharged a pistol point blank
in the direction of the audience, one of
the Indians executed a very palpable
duck of the head. The others simply
roared. and for the remainder of the
evening they gave their crestfallen
companion no rest.
| The Theatre opens tonight with the
! big spectacular extravaganza, 1892. y
with Stuart, the male Patti in the
leading role. The company carries a
carload of scenery.
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