Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-27
fame grows slowly !

n n 4, mis- country. The immedl-
,,e suocess, therefore, Of Miss
i Mamie Tout Is all the more
aor,hv. She is only IS years Old
IA onlv made her debut last NoVem-
nor vet she has leapt at once into pop
,,orlty and had the high honor OF
smoing 10 Queen Alexandra at Buck
,rebam palace under circumstances
s,oh venture TO think will be inter-
,,,,g The day after she had sung to
sar majesty called at the young sing
..,s bore. and heard the story of her
ar nartly from herself and partly
CO.., her father. Miss Tout IL as bonny
l'V anocImen of the healthy American
Eli reared IN the inyigoratlng atmos-
ehhra ~ the Rockies, as one could wish
y Geo The moment this bright young
,ody stepped on TO the platform or 81
Iames' hall, with her dark hair hang
,ng down her back, and looking Just
me schoolgirl she Is. the audience pc
can to take an interest In her. Theh
shen her lovely voice rang out win
strength and volume which riYalled us
saeetness. Miss Tout captured every
ana
wanted a more instantaneous success.
Gne Of our greatest critics said after
Yards. Here Is our new soprano at
last II was her first appearance In
Iondon, but, as heard from her faith
or she had been singing before great
audiences In America years ago. saw
en- American newspaper In which her
nortrat figured when she was but 10,
ss one OF whom her native state of
Utah expected great things In the fu-
tue
professional name more melodious than
Tout" and in true American spirit she
replled. I'D rather have my fathers
name than any other" SO with the un-
usual name OF Mamie Tout she is on
her way to fame. or her early life |
CLEANED the following particulars from
Mr. Tout, who has so much of the typi-
cal Americans manner Of speech that
] vas surprised TO hear he was a Welsh
man by birth yes, sir. | come from
Wales, and as a young fellow I helped
with some timber" Mr., Tout called II
lumber which was wanted for Ma
dame PATHS castle at Craig-y-Nos, SO
YOU see | had something to do with
music even them When ! was l6 |
emlgrated to the states. and settled
finally at ogden, town I'm Utah. IL
was then quite a small place, but IL has
developed rapidly, as you VIII see from
these photographs" Ogden was GER
talnly an alive place Judging by the
which Mr.. Tout displayed |
There were fine broad streets with the |
inevita bic cars running down them, and |
every sign Of prosperity I'm the city. II |
married an American, and have six |
chIldren--all Of whom have come oven |
70 England with us, My daughter Nam
MES musical education was, Of course, |
the first reason for our coming. but |
don't regret II on behalf Of the other |
children, for they are all doing wen |
with their education. We are all of us
and my wife and I have no
greater pleasure than when the children
sing and play TO us in the evening. We
have quite an orchestra at home. ! as
sure you. though just now our first vio-
llnst has hurt her arm and cannot
play We are so glad Mamie went to
the Royal College Of Music, though It
was a narrow shave between her going
there and having lessons from a fam
Gus teacher IN Wales. A Welsh friend,
who had often talked to us about Nam
MES voice, advised me 20 go and see
this teacher before | settled the ques-
ion. and | was actually on my way
ghen something seemed TO tell me not
% trouble about It, but TO take her TO
he Royal College. Well, little while
we went TO the college, and
he secretary told me that my daugh-
er was below the age at which stu
lents were usually accepted, | said TO
lin, Would you mind hearing her sing
,efore you reject herr He said, oh,
ertanly we will hear her sing for
get what II was she sang, but when
ir Visettl heard her he said at once,
We must make an exception to our
ule and she entered the college"
Nov, Miss Tout, | want the rest OF
he story from YOU"
We'll. | can hardly recollect the time
When | did not sing Didn't | begin
inelng when was five. Poppa2"
81 guess you did" said Mr.. Tout.
Then, though never had proper les.
ons, was always singing somewhere.
lut II 's$s when Or. Joseph Parry came
o Salt Lake city TO act as adjudlcator
/ our Elsteddfod In 1898 that / made
ny biggest success in public. We had
n Elsteddfod just like the Welsh have,
nd IL was simply grand to sing before
1000 people In the great Tabernacle.
hey use that building for all kinds Of
atherngs, and we gave operate airs
nd all sorts OF vocal and orchestral
1uslc there There Is no finer building
DR. sound that | can imagine than the
abernacle. The people I'm Salt Lake
lty are very fond OF music, ana they
ct the best singers TO come there"
Or Parry talked TO Poppa about my
aying a real good musical training,
lst ms another Welsh musician had
liked TO us again and again. He told
s all about the different colleges over
ere, and the clever teachers; and the
lore ! heard the more | wanted to
1me. So at last we all packed up and
lme about two years ago
And how have you liked the col