The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-14
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" r. J. LEWIS BROWNE has been
feted and HOnized the past week
at various social functions. He
has been made much OF by the mu-
sicians OF this city, and the fact that
the best musicians have paid him the
highest compliments is the best praise
that can be bestowed upon his ability
DIR. Browne is known in every musical
center Of Importance in the world. He
has played in St CeCilian's auditorium
at Rome and upon all the great or
gans of Europe and America, and IL
would be no more than natural If he
encountered some Jealousy. There IS
always more or less jealousy between
professional people. because they more
than any other class are devoted 10
their art for artistic rather than COM
mercial reasons.
None of this jealousy has appeared
IN the case of DR.. Browne. His great
est admirers are the musicians Of the
city They recognize his worth fully.
While he keeps his eyes on the stars,
he keeps his feet on the earth, and he
is entertaining not only because he is
q great musician. but because he is a
great traveller. He has met people and
seen things and he has the delightful
faculty of being able to tell what he
has seen To top all. he bubbles over
with mirth and he is quick to grasp the
humorous side of a situation.
DR.. Browne has consented to appear
at the tabernacle tomorrow evening,
not for mercenary reasons. but as
compliment to an old friend. He met
the Very Rev John Guinan in Atlanta,
Ga. some years ago and when Father
Guinan who is working TO raise funds
for the completion of All HalOws col
lcse learned that the musician was in
the country. he wrote him to come and
help him out. Dr.. Browne came as a
friend. He will be heard in no other
recitals in this country. AS he said
the other night at the Alta club din
ner, he does not play any more for
money or for glory. He has graduated
from these stages and plays simply for
those who love music as an art and
also for his own amusement. He is
prince among men, both mentally and
physically and he is a man who is
admired and esteemed among men who
know him.
A most artistic programme is that
arranged for the song recital to be
given Tuesday evening by Mrs. Martha
Royle King. The assisting artists will
be George SHELTON, Mrs. W. p. LOOmis
and Miss Judith Evans. who will act
as accompanies. Miss Evans also ap-
pears as a vocalist and two other pu-
Edna Duncan and L. T. Sprague. The
songs are almost all on the ballad or
der and the programme is a short one.
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A special programme Of music has
been prepared for the service at the
First Congregational church this even
ing. 1t viii consist of Day is over,
Shadows FalI' by Brown, and I VIII
Let Mine Eyes" by Case, both num-
bers sung by the qUartette. and a solo
by Mrs Martha ROyle King, "Shad-
ows of the Evening Hour" from Shep-
herd
DR. J. Lewis Browne paid this city a
very pretty compliment at dinner the
other evening when he said that Salt
Lake as a musical center is valued
more abroad than she is at home. He
paid a high tribute to the instructors
here some of whom. he said, are
known even in Europe
DR.. Browne says that the American
organs surpass those of Europe. Some
of those Of Europe, he thinks, have
reached a high standard Of tone quail
itv. but in mechanical possibilities the
American organ is far ahead of those
of foreign make and the finer organs,
he thinks. cannot be exceIled by any
Of the organs abroad.
Father Murphy Of All HallOws col
lege paid The Herald the compliment,
during a pOstprandial speech the other
evening. by saying that ii stood first
in musical and dramatic art in this
city and that it was recognized in Salt
Lake as a leader IN these fields.
Professor Anton Petersen astOnished
his friends at several dinners the past
week in a display of talent as an after
dinner speaker. Heretofore Professor
Petersen has made strings and reeds
talk for him. but he has opened up a
new field. in which his friends VIII
find him entertaining hereafter.
As after dinner speakers Arthur
Shepherd and J. J. Mcclellan need not
hesitate to occupy a front bench
Their work at the Commercial CLUB
rooms the other evening was matter
which excited the envy and admiration
of friends.
At one of the dinners to DR.. Browne
the other evening an admirer of Gov
ernor Wells named him as the next
United states senator from this state.
and said that the love Of Utah citizens
would carry him to the presidential
chair. Mrs Wells, however, said she
had no ambition to become mistress
of the White House. and she also eX-
pressed the hope that her distinguished
husband would not cultivate a craving
for the senate. Governor Wells left
the banquet hall almost Immediately
and went to the mothers meeting and
addressed the parents there on the sub
ject of bringing up their children IN
the way they should go
One Of the strongest features at the
'rTom Tom Show" next to the show
itself. the past week. was the music.
The mandolin. guitar and banjo artists
who made such a hit were Leonard,
Bertha, Leon and Rodney Sutherland,
Eugene and Roscoe Hardy and VIII
lard Ashton. o. D. ROmney, Lorin Glib
and Willie Child.
At a meeting Of the young people Of
Granite stake last evening solos were
rendered by Mrs. Elsie Barrows-Best,
Miss Edna Duncan. T. S. AshwOrth
and little Miss McLelland. There was
also a selection by the Imperial quar-
tette.
The work of the pickaninny band.
which was drilled by Theodore Best, is
the best compliment that can be paid
to his ability as an instructor upon
the instruments which they played
They were among the big special fea-
lures of the Tom Tom Show"
Charles Kent brought out the I'm
perial quartette at the Tom Tom
show the past week. They were a
splendid feature OF the entertainment.