Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02

is TO SING IN
COMIC OPERA
DAPHNE POLLARD WILL HAVE
THE TITLE ROLE
SAN FRANcIsco's NEW STAR is
STILL A CHILD
She Has Had, However, Remarkable
Experience and Has Met With
Success on Three Con-
tinents

n TITLE MISS DAPHNE POLLARD,
who will sing Dolly Warden at the
IA Lbs Angeles theater tonight with
the San Francisco opera company, is
Young woman who has travelled more
thousands of miles than she Is years old.
Her age is Is and she has been seven
years on the stage. During that time she
has played in the United States, Japan,
China. India, the Philippines and South
Africa, and she started in Australia
though curiously enough she has never
played there.
Tiny little Miss Pollard--she weighs
only 101 pounds and is considerably less
than feet tall-already has gone farther
in her chosen work than the vast major
ity of her sisters whose age is no longer
matter for public conversation. She is
the Youngest principal of an adult opera
company the American stage has ever
known.
She is still young enough to be some
what reluctant to confess her youth, and
her chief ambition is to "grow up"
However. she is safely past the limit fxed
by the Humane society and has nothing
to fear from that quarter.
Knows Many Operas
Hers has been unique experience. At
the age when the normal girl is think
ing of entering the high school, little
Miss Pollard is figure of Importance
in the operatic world. She is up" In a
dozen or more operas. including, in addi-
ton to dolly Warden, 1.-THE Bells of New
York" "The Gaiety GIRL 1.-THE Mikado,"
La Mascotte," "In Town. "The Lady
slavey," "The American Millionaire"
"The Geisha," "Pinafore" and ''The
Singing Girl which the San Francis
cans will present here next week.
During the seven years of her expert
ence with the Pollard Juvenile Opera
company Daphne Pollard was one of the
best known and best liked members of
that remarkable organization. Her pres
ent engagement is her first with an adult
company and she came all the way from
Australia Especially engaged for the
place,
Dolly New Role
Arriving in Seattle only three weeks
ago, this child-principal of one of the
most successful comic opera organiza-
tions in the country, at once jumped into
the soubrette roles. She sang Dolly Var
den for the first time in Seattle and has
suns 1t once since. When she appears
upon the stage of the Los Angeles to-
night, her little feet dancing along to
keep pace with her palanquin bearers,
she will sing the role for the third time;
virtually for the first as the other two
OF dress rehearsals for the Los Angeles
engagement.
AZ the theater last night the diminutive
star of dolly Warden" explained that
this time she has come to the United
States to stay.
II like 1t here much better than in
Aust alta. tiThe said. That doesn't speak
ESSrsls III tyr my own country, does 1t?
ctx 9ust the same. My sister. Ivy
,f.ad Ans
trajia. sfisNs in the company, and next
wear nv father and mother are coming
over and we are all going to make our
home here. never have appeared on
sthe stage in Australia and neither my
father nor my mother ever has seen me
act
Pollard Her Stage Name
In exclamation of that statement 1t
nav he well to say that Pollard" is the
Young woman's stage name, and that she
really is not related to the manager OF
the Juvenile opera company under wnom
she made her stage debut and received
her stage training.
The woman-child has picked up large
amount of information on her travels
and she has pronounced ideas. emma
She declares uninteresting and exceed
ingiv. dirty. Japan, on the other hand,
meets with her entire approval. Japanese
cities. she says, are well conducted and
are even cleaner than cities of the same
size in this country. She never has been
in Europe. but hopes to go there later.
IL is of course, the diplomatic thing
for oneratic stars to declare preference
for the particular role they happen to be
nIaying when the question is asked them,
and little Miss Pollard is not unmindfui
of that question. Dolly Warden" she
saws. is her favorite part because
there's lots of work In It, ana she
doesn't like part that doesn't give he'
ample work to do.