The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
BY MRS. J. M. DE COTTEs.

interpretation gave full meaning and the radiance of whose spirit she pro iected through the instrumentality or his language made vivid by voice re- markable for mastery of vocal inhec- tion force and precision of utterance. and a certain tone-quality capable of all the coorlngs which express the range of the emotions. From the traE- ic note of Lorraine Lorree" to the lightsome jollity of Teaching in the Hollow" 1t Twas a marvel and delight to hear one human voice make so many living impersonations.
 Learned men and women said to one another frequntly through the evening: 'T've heard this--and that--and that. but never so well given before"-thus, the highest test of ability and profic- iency was met, that of doing superla- lively well what Is done In an ordinary commonp place way by others every day Genius was shown by rendering Shakespeare in a manner possible only to great actors. Mrs. Gilman's Con servative" was much appreciated verses which are not exactly that lurid satire which is "the devils language" but that irory which shatters shams and punctures hide-bound self-conceit.
 Lowelrs lines on June Days and La- nier's on Spring Rains. delighted young and old. and '"rhe Boy Orator." capti- vated everybody.
 George Eliotts "Stradivarius, that glorious recognition of the nobility of loyal service by each in his all lotted place, made pro- found impression and Browning s "Pisgah Heights" was a revelation to those who know the poets fondness for bird flights and soul flights with his sustained faith that God guides me and the bird" and his conviction that both shall arrive" in a sure haven. Very tactfully Miss King told the It. tie folks present who had listened so respectfully to passages sublime and pathetic, that she would give some thing especially for them in Preaching | in the Hollow but the entire au- | dience caught the infection of its fun and interrupted the inimitable mimic | ry with bursts of uncomfortable laugh | ter and round after round of applause Nothing could have better contrasted 1 artistic elocution with it's artificial linn | itation than this delineation of 'yello' | cution" and "contortion for gesture" oi the pupils SO bent on impressing tho | august committee who visited so sud | denly the School in the Hollow.
 Of the Statue Scene from Shake | spCaIes Winters Tale 1t is daicult to | speak. In an audience made up of all ages from little children to gray-haired men and women you could have heard | a pin fall while Miss King. by mere words and simple gestures-no scenery not an adjunct-brought before all one of the greatest delineations of Shake speare Mary Anderson has made Il familiar; but not she nor another who ever gave 1t in Montgomery with as sistants and accessories, could have alone presented the picture-Paulina
 faithful friend showing to Lenntas hi'
 wronged but forgiving wife, Perditf
 kneeIlng for her mothers blessing
 while the misjudged friend looks on a
 Hermione descending from her pedes
 tai no more a statue but a woman In
 stinct with life, after twenty years O
 renunciation to take up life's duties
 loves and joys Only an artist wh'
 could in an instant pass from one tl | another of five persons differing eacl
 from all the others and give the dis
 tinctive tone and manner of each, coul'
 describe how it ia done. To the write
 and all present analysis seemed thinl
 forbid, and enjoyment the most natura l tribute to its perfection.
 Very cordially Miss King thanked tn
 City Superintendent and Board of Ed
 ucation for the privilege accorded he
 of being brought face to face with g
 many of the city's best people and sue
 a number of it's attractive pupils. He 1 words of thanks to the audience fo