St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-15
Two Concerts In One.
The Success of Mary Howe LAWN.


As we briefly announced in our columns
last week, the concert to be given by
Mary Howe LAWN and the Boston Sex
tette Club several weeks ago, and in
definitely postponed, is announced
for Wednesday evening, May %, at
Howe Opera House. Mary Howe needs
no introduction to st. Johnsbury audi
ence and the Boston Sextette Club, which
has also been heard in our town, is sure
of hearty welcome and a good audi
ence. Mr.. Black has arranged for special
train from Lyndonville, and there will
be excursion rates from all stations as
far south as Bradford. The tickets will
be $50, SIS and $100 and will be on
sale one week preceding the concert.
We are glad to copy the following
concerning our famous Vermont singer
from recent number of the st. Adams
Messenger:
Vermont men have brought fame to
the Green Mountain state by deeds of
yalor on land and sea, by service render
ed in the halls of Congress, and as re-
presentatives of the United States
abroad. Those of the artistic mould
have in art and poetry, sculpture and
prose, written their names and that Of
their state high up on the enduring re-
cord of the nations immortals. While
much has been said and written of her
sons, of her daughters Vermont may be
as greatly proud. From Molly Stark,
OF Revolutionary fame, to the present
day, the women have done much for
their state and the annals of their &C.
compllshments await the service OF a
brilliant pen.
Otsome the world has already heard,
the royalty of Europe and the citizens OF
America have paid them homage, while
the press has teemed with glowing tri-
butes to youth and beauty. In Brattle.
Doro the past two seasons there has
been a woman whose nameis one to con-
Jure with, one whose splendid soprano
voice has won words of congratulation
from Germany's redoubtabe war lord,
Emperor William, and has caused spon-
taneous outbursts of applause from the
stated audiences of the metropolis, she it
is who has temporarily laid honors in
the musical world aside to be with her
widowed mother, from whom for many
years her professional life had separated
her.
Mary Howe, for of her this article is
written, is an eminent example of what
a talented Girl with grit and determina
ton can accomplish. A dozen years ago
the world first heard OF her upon her
debut at the age OF 10 years in a grand
opera at Berlin, but previous to that tr-
,umph she had sung her way into the
hearts of Vermonters. She began to
sing as soon as she began to walk, and
all through her school days in the public
schools her phenomenally high soprano
voice was the wonder and admiration of
teachers and friends. Probably her first
public appearance was as Josephine in a
Juvenile production of "Pinafore." She
could not have been much more than a
uozen years of age at that time, but her
voice captivated the townspeople, who
tnen discovered that one of the "town |
girls was destined by fate to have a
Iafne not bounded by the state or ma
ton.
,, Miss Howe is the daughter of c. L.
nnowe, an oldtime photographer of
t6rattleboro, and comes OF a talented |
lam!ly. Her brother Lucien, to whose
guidance and instruction she owes much |
VI ner success, is himself a tenor singer
ana musical composer, whose reputation !