Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-02
SINGER PLEASES
HER AUDIENCE
ELLEN BEACH YAW GREETED
BY THOUSANDS
As Young and Pretty as Ever, in Sim
pie White Gown CALIFORNIA;
Lark Gets Rousine
Ovation

Ellen Beach Yaw, our own Lark
Ellen" received q welcome home ova-
ton at the Mason last night that was
prodigal in it's liberality and over
whelming in its cordiality. The young
singer was greeted by house filled
with her friends and admirers from
the traditional pit to DOME" with the
standing room law well violated and
some half thousand turned away, un-
able to secure entrance. Flattering in
deed it was to the pretty girl, whose
success as a vocalist has given her in
ternational reputation.
So decided was the desire to hear
her, liz fact that already a sort of
overflow meeting has been arranged,
and Simpson auditorium, one night
next week, will witness a repetition of
the scenes about the Mason last night.
Miss Yaw is a Los Angeles product,
and of course Los Angeles takes a spe-
cial interest and pride in her advance
in her chosen line of work. At the
same time the city feels a personal
responsibility for her and warm
heartedness that it extends to no other
great singer. When it was announced
that she was coming home, after a
world tour of triumph, Los Angeles was
exceeding glad, for it knew then that
it would hear the finished vocalist,
whom it had grown to love and admire
in her embryonic days. So that 1t
eagerly awaited last nights opportun-
ity, and when announcement of the
day and place was made it poured out
in an eager throng to attest its un-
changed devotion.
Perfectly at Ease
Consequently when Miss Yaw, as
young and pretty as ever in her simple
white gown, stepped into the foot
lights glare, she saw a perfect sea of
faces upturned to her in welcome and
heard a roar of applause as great as
any that had welcomed her in any city
in the world But, dearer than all.
she knew that the vast audience was
full of her personal friends and ad-
mirers, many of whom had perhaps
never entered a playhouse before, and
there was personal tie between singer
and listeners that put them en- rap
port from the very start. No wonder.
then, that she sang with perfect sang
froid and confidence.
The program that Miss Yaw and her
assistants presented was catholic in
the extreme. She herself selected a
wide range of numbers, running from
the extremely difficult and classic
down through the lighter lyrics to even
the old-fashioned songs that every one
knows and loves Not all were calcu-
ldIeQ TO SHOW OIL nef vocal powers Dut
all were of heart interest, and that
was what those in the theater wanted
last night Thus, 1t was not surpris-
ing that Comm Thro' the Rye" won
more genuine applause, though given
as an encore, than did the great mad
scene' from Lucia" though the latter
was by far the most pretentious, ex-
acting and skillful thing that she did.
Miss Yaw has developed much since
she was heard here last. When she
acquired her first fame it was for
phenomenally high note. So, in the
same way; did Sister Mary Jane, of
musical comedy notoriety. But, unlike
this latter creature Miss Yaw has
brought out other features of her voice,
and now she Is finished artistic i'm the
whole gamut of music. The remarka BILE
thing about her voice is its fine quail
ity i'm the lower middle or mezzo sec
tion; she is even better there than I'm
the higher or true soprano qualities.
This, with the contrastive high notes,
makes her singing a surprise to one
not acquainted with this fact,
All Numbers Are Pleasing
One is inclined to wonder il she
would not have developed one of the
grea test mezzo voices of the day, had
she never struck that famed note of
quality at all. Be that as
1t may. Miss Yaw is particularly
delights in her singing therein. All
much progress and development over