Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-13
MARY ANDERSON REAPPEARS
IN A VILLAGE CONCERT.
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Evesham was aglow with excite
ment Being Saturday morning farm-
ems from the surrounding country had
driven into the village with their wives
for Sunday shopping ON every 8ral-
able billboard along the road posters
had announced for month past the
great event Of the day-iha Mary AM
lcrson Concert
Bu-boards grow old and faded no less
,han q month 10 a Worcester village.
especially in such O sunny month as
this. when for weeks the roads have
been thronged with farmers carts
bringing fruit 20 market The Mary
Anderson posters might thus have east.
Iy been mistaken Tor old one posted
years and years ago. If % werC lot for
the freshly pasted slips across the face
VI the posters giving the further an
aouncement: This afternoon. at i.30
o'clock"
The arrival OF the midday train from
London with a huge harp 800 green
baize cover. gave another alp TO the
excitement and when che harp and
the men who came with 1T had been un-
loaded from the railway omnibus TO the
queer little square where th Town hail
stands, children playing round the
Town Hall steps fairly shr.ekad again
for gleeful anticipation.
Upstairs. in the Town tlau itself half
dozen gentlemen and $50 ladies' were
waiting amid chaos 0f dusty chairs
while WoTIwou were hssJ 900 taa y.lt-
form fixing up the grand piano, just az
rived
You must have patience with me at
rehearsal. ] am oulE 400 amateur you
know" the taller Of the ladies was say
ing 20 a f9reigu-looking gentleman with
grey m0ustache.
A VOICE TO SWEAR BY.
There could be no mstaking that
voice. Il was Rosallnd s-u.t the Rosa
lind of the Forest OF Arden. nor even
Inc RugInd who hado us farewell az
Ter plsdgug herself O. kiss as many OF
YOU as had boards that pleased me -
but ROssIlnd none the less. Rosa
lind with sun-hr1Wuel cheeks a Rosa
lind who had DOTTED doublet and hose
90 blossom into "a stately Chatelaine a
9osallnd years and years younger than
when we FIRST met her before she had
.qptivated poor Celia or led love-sick
Orlando a dance through the forest
Rosalind in fact who was even YET
living happily ever afterwards.
Tho American who christened the
Kentucky girl, Mary Anderson, our
Mary would have been proud OF his
good child had be- seen her then.
How good ci The Daily Mail 10 lel
YOU come AN The way from London 20
hear our little concert was her greet
Inc 10 me. Let me introduce you 20
| my husband Just think on u az! tel-
ting into print. ] shan be pos'u'e'!
| nervous
Awav she trips 20 the stage, while
| sit beside MI DE- Navarro and venture
no reproach him with having robbed u.s..
| NO YEARNING FOR BYGONE DAYS.
"she has never expressed the slightest
| wish 10 return t0 the stage, ne Mhls-
| .pers ia me quietly. as the rehearsal be-
| gins MI Francis korhaF, the grey
| haired gentleman strikes the first notes
| NJ the accompaniment TO "a Hungarian
cong Of his own competition
{ would Ike to De auayed in silver and
gold ,,.,s
Beautiful and radiant for him TO behold
Yes. It is Rosll.ud singing and yet
| somehow not the RUsalind we knew.
There is an tho old arch wiichery of lhne
| forest rhym4ter the merry sparkle. th'
! dainty ropuish glance. the bewitohing
| mile that held thousands under it.
spoll In the old, old DAYS But surely
| mat glorious volume o. song did not
| belong to the Eoselnl we knew some
| s,yeet sincing fairy must have endowed
| oOur MARY with O. wedding gitt OF
| song. But whence comes that warmth
| 1f feeling vibrant and mellow as tA'
| song of the thrush2 Visions oil lae
G7latea cold as marble fade into ao-
7urdl,y as that fuIl rich voice hlls the
| empty hall
THE SONG.
The cries of children playing outdoors
| become hushci. Norkmen busy iNins
| up Inc stage draparios stand agapa 90
| t.r..f|T .HfrIrf NJ |aN FANNIE