The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-06
CHARMlNGLY ENTERTAINED.
crowd Attended Recital Last Night at
PresbYterinn Church.

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| The recital. or, more correctly, enter.
| ta1nment, given in the audience room of
the Presbyterian church last evening
by Miss Jennie Morgan and Miss Chris
/ tine Jaedicke was an enjoyable and
| most creditable success The church
was filled to the doors with represent
tative audience. The fair artistes We're
| assisted in the programme by Charles
Hickey as accompanist, quartette
made up of Messrs. Martz Thomas.
Pickel and Davis and 20 little girls in
picture poses.
The CHEEKY auditorium was lightened
with large palms and coored lights
from the choir loft. At the conclusion
of the entertainment the ladies of the
church served ice cream and cake. The
proceeds from this sale went to swell
the organ fund of the church.
The evening opened with a quartette,
Koschat's "Forsaken," which was fol-
lowed by the recital. by Miss Jaedicke.
of James Whtcomb Riley's dainty and
charming little poem, THAT Old Sweet
heart of Mine" Miss Jaedicke was
goWned in black, unrelieved save by
bare arms and low neck. Miss Jaedcke
recited dreadfully, painfully. tragic
thing called The Murderer" She
handled the piece in a mastery way,
and as an exhibition of dramatic feeling
the recitation was quite a success. But
the thing gave one the creeps, and
thereln 1t was not a success. For to
needlessly strike discordant note does
not ADD to the sense of pleasure and
mars the effect of what goes before and
after Tragedy belongs in only two
spheres, life and the stage; it is i'll at
ease on the platform of a church. 1t is
the undisputed right of the church en-
tertainment to manufacture bathos
from pathos, and the right generally is
'r off liz
bad. for one can laugh at the funniness
of bathos and thereby add to ones gen
eral sum of enjoyment-which is sup
posed to be a chief end of life. But
what shall be done with tragedy-ili Il
church? 1t is doubtless very interest
ing, not to say thrilling, to listen to a
skilled artistic repeating the wild, low
rawlings of a condemned and imprisoned
murderer, and the final words-wiis-
pered screams-"Death! DEATH" have
the deuce of sensational effect, sand
wiched in between solos and quartettes
and the sweet poses of little girls. THE
Murderer might do in the wings BY
the way, the programme quite startles
one with this line:
&C. Reading-'The Murderer-E. A.
Poe"
Now perhaps 1.-THE Murderer" is a
very clever thing; it certainly sounds
clever when Miss Jaedicke recites it;
but Edgar Allan Poe must be defended
Some other celebrity than the author
Of THE Raven" The Tell-Tale Heart"
1.-THE Black Cat" and 1.-THE House of
Usher" must be found to shoulder the
guilt of creating so painful thing and
giving it to the world. Mr. Poe did
not write 1.-THE Murderer and he may
be pardoned for not having done so.
More pleasing We're Miss Jaedicke's
recitals of THE Romance of the Tele-
y,l, f%1x H.. 81
of girl with a lover, and that eX-
quisite thing of Eugene Fields, "Slum-
Der Islands, These selections she rem
dered most delightfully."- and was re-
called again and again, generally re-
spending to the encores.
Mr.. Davis singing of Pontet's fine
base solo, Fog Bell" was very good.
For an encore he sang II Am a Pirate
Bold" His voice is remarkably full
and soft. and in its very softncss lies
the defect of lack of expression. THE
Marselles" and "Adieu, Marie" should
not be sung alike.
The violin playing of Miss Jennie
Morgan was good, indeed. She has
studied in Boston. She played VIE
niawski's "Chanson Polonaise," a con-
certo with Mr.. Hickey, "Brindisi VaIse''
by Alard, and an encore or two
Unlike most of those who essay to
draw the bow over the human strings.
Miss Morgan excels in feeling and does
not in technique. Her expression notes
are full clear and swee. and her double
tones are rich. She gave real pleasure
to her audience. She looked charming
in gown of white with a rose in her
hair and cluster of roses at her
gir1le
The picture poses by nine little girls
Gladys Blair, Gladys Martin, Louise
Ramsay. Hazel Ramsay. Ruth Steph-
ems, Isabel Fleming, Floy Duffy, Katie
Flood and priscilla Clay-were beauti-
fully done and evoked much clapping
of hands. It would be hard to get to-
gether prettier bunch of buds.
The piano accomplishments by Charles
Hickey We're good.
Christ Massna,.,r