The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01


At the Auditorium next week will be
several attractions Of unusual interest
On Monday evening the Sterling Juoi-
lee Singers, give a number on the Lyce-
UNI Course. Jubilee Singers are always
popular, and this company is one of the
best OF the kind on the road is the
assurance Of Mr.. Frank H. Foster,
chairman of the executive committee OF
the Pipe Organ association The single
admission including a reserved seat, IS
70 cents There are good seats stu Ie1t.
Season tickets are still for sale AZ
Etansdeld's for 81, including this and
i've others of equal merit
Nine. Iidia Won Finkelstein Mount
ford will give a series of lectures COM
mencing Thursday evening. Friday
(natinee9 and Saturday evening. These
lectures are also for the nominal price
of 25 cents. Twelve rows of seats IN
front in the parquet will be reserved
for so cents. This interesting daughter
of Jerusalem Is extraordinary in her
racial makeup Born of RuSslan-Ger-
man parents in the Holy City. she grew
up amid scenes and sounds from which
she learned a life lesson Of wonderful
richness and charms
She lived out a childhood replete with
Kaleidoscope incident among what is
perhaps the Strangest mass Of heterO-
geneity on the face Of the earth. In her
own brief career she has witnessed the
meeting of the east and west in the
most ancient cities. Her religious in
SEPARATION has been drawn from the BIZ
Bile the Talmud, the Koran and the
ancient Sanscrit philosophers. Today
she is held in equal affection by the Ro-
man Catholic prelate. the Protestant d.
vine, the JEWS rabbi the MOhamme-
dan priest, the HindO Yogi, and the ven
cradle father of the Greek orthodox In
the midst of 1.-The old Jerusalem" with
the weird Arab cries and the shrek Of
the camel ringing in her ears, with the
inscrutable Oriental in his infinite va
riety of color and costume passing be-
fore her eyes, long before the American
trolley car had pushed the camel cara
van far out into the desert, Lidia Won
Finkelstein Mountford set about the
preparation Of lectures which have since
made her famous throughout the Eng
nsh world To get the true color she
penetrated far into the hottest hooks OF
mosques and temples where no unbe-
lever has ever been before or since. and
to illustrate more wildly the lectures,
she possessed herself of beautiful en-
s5roidered and silver spun garments OF
pious priests and those worn by devout
prfncesses some four centuries ago
Some Of these garments covered with
their mysterious eastern symbols are
priceless and If destroyed could not De
replaced. Her wardrobe, outside of the
more valuable costumes, is cOnserva-
lively valued at $4,000.
Many Topeka people have heard her
as she has frequently appeared at Chau-
tauouas and all are enthusiastic about
hearing of Jerusalem and the life OF the
Holy Land in way that cannot be ex-
celled-
Madame Anna Hellstrom, the great
Swedish sOngstress, who has now visit
ed our shores for the third time within
as many years. is the prima donna as
solute OF the Royal Opera of Stock
holm Like her most famous predeces-
sor in this venerable institution, Jenny
Lind she was trained musically and
hfstrionicaIly within its walls from her
very childhood Like Christine Nilsson,
she is a daughter Of the people and in
tfnateIy in touch with all that IS
1atiyely frank, tender and wholesome In
human sentiment Like Louise
Michael she possesses voice OF phe-
nOmenal range and expressfveness, and
like Caroline Oestberg, the artistic YER
satility of genius But unlike the two
last mentioned SINGERS. her lnlineulate
predecessors at the Stockholm opera.
Anna Heilstrom appears destined to ac-
ouire international fame
Nine HeIlstrom viii sing at the Tope
ka high school next Saturday.
Anna Dorotea Helistrom, nee Thulin,
was born April %, 1875, in Stockholm
Although from a tender age connected
with the different departments of the
ROYAL Opera of her native city, in the
capacity of disciple and scholar, she did
not make her debut until the year OF
1896 Her rise to prominence was as
gUred from the very beginning, her ex-
ceptional vocal resources, excellent ar
tistic training, great versatility and
charming stage presence marking her
for first honors with press and public.
Madame HellstrOm's American de-
but was made in special engagement
as the prima donna Of the Minneapolis
sangerfest of the American Union of
Swedish Singers in 1903 This turned
out veritable triumph for the young
diva and resulted in a similar engag-
'ment at the Chicago festival OF the
same organization in 1905. fol-
east and middle west
Madame HellstrOm's third American
visit will consist of an extended tour
from coast to coast, embracing more
than thirty concerts within the limited
time Of slightly more than two months
that the prima donna has been reluct-
antly granted for a leave of absence
from the Stockholm opera. It will
embrace the opening OF the musical
season with the Minneapolis Sym
phony orchestra and important ap-
pearances also in Worcester, Chicago, ]
St Paul. Duluth and San Francisco !
with q number OF concerts in other
towns Of the northwest and on the Pa
cific coast with return through Pitts |
burg. Providence and Boston. Mad |
anne Hellstrom's farewell concert will !
be given at Carnegie hall, New York. |
December 23-
From the quiet rectorage in the
Swedish country town of Vaxholm. |
closely outside of Stockholm, where
her hours of rest are chiefly spent with
her venerable father-in-law and his
family, Madame Hellstrom writes to
some of her American friends: No
body will believe how I am longing for
America When you once have had
a taste OF that country it acts upon
you like a magic raught: you Will be
forever drawn to it"
Among the song hits of the season |
IRE. MY Irish Rosie sung by Hattie |
Williams. in 1.-The Little Cherub." and
'sThe Bagpipe Serenade.' sung by
Georgia Game and a dancing chorus
"a ssThe Rich Mr.. HogKenheimer."