The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-20
LA PAL0MA IS NOW
A MENTAL WRECK

Little Paloma Schramm IS being TAX
en- TO her parents home in Los Angeles,
complete mental and physical wreck
The magic has gone from her dimpled
baby fingers and the brilliant mind that
gave such promise Is bIank-as blank as
the ivory keys that she smiles at UNI
The I0-vear-oid child whose youth re-
sembled that of Mozart and whose fu-
ture. it was predicted; would win her
d name in the world Of music, mas 0een
overtaxcd. her strength gave way after
a tour of the United States ard Mexico.
Her manager said:
Next year we will go to England
and the continent and you will con-
Iona.
Think of it, At ten years of age this
babe with her beauty-a soft. childish.
pure beauty il was-had appeared be-
fore the footlights of hundreds of music
halls. had had columns written in
her praise from the sunny. slopes of
Atlantic and bowed to the tumults of
applauding thousands. And all for
what? The manager was ambitious
and Palomas parents We're carried
away by their pride in their famous
prodigy" They failed to note how
the rose-glow faded from the cheeks
of the child and the blue eyes became
listIess and lack-iuster. Then there
sudden that Paloma' : reason fed. And
the question obtrudes itself: for what?
Paloma Schramm appeared before
Salt Lake audiences twice during Deem
Der last She was on toIr from San
Francisco TO the east and arrived with
her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
F. W. Schramm.
Iona Schramm heard Emma Juch in
Wagner's 'Lohengrin'' and the diva
woke into life the latent genius, the
1t was the first glorious burst of song
she had ever heard and the opera.
strangely enough, exerted in her young
life an influence that seems as uncanny
Paloma in Spanish means the wild
dove" She was named after the beau
tifut chain of mountains on the west
ern coast of Mexico. When a child her
father who was an electrical engineer
and with his wife, had settled in pur-
suit of his calling in California. from
his Eative land Germany. had pre-
sentet her with pair OF wild doves.
Before this. however. while reading to
her one evening in Los Angeles how,
in ''Lohengrin, Elsa's brother is turned
into a swan and how. instead of a
swan, a dove comes and brings the
gondola home. "a crippled tame dove
fell at her feet as IL seeking protection.
Unconsciously the child began to war
hle to her fathers violin. He was
quick to perceive her talent and en-
couraged her with the best tuition pos
sible.
Palomas first concert was given
when she was i've years of age. Her
playing was pronounced wonderful
people were turned away from the con-
cert halls, artists came to sketch her.
The child was famous. List Mozart
Chopin she interpreted with such skill
genius. if you will-that eyes were
wet and lips quivcred AT the nod of
this small child who could not torch
the pedals. except by aid of a special
continuance.
Mime. Melba heard her play caught
her. kissed her with dim eyes and
promised her gifts innumerable when
she came to London. She gave her a
box and threw roses at her. Paderew-
ski kissed her hand and predicted
great things. The famous tenor. Cam
panari. pressed his lips to her forehead.
And the last chord? \ pitiful mes
sage has come from Los Angeles Pa
Iona will never again appear in pubic.