Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-24
TIE MAGIC OF MUSIC
Power of the Melody of the Voice
 Over Man and Beast.
SINGERS WHO SAVED LIVES

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 That music really has charms to soothe the savage beast is proved by the many times that the power Of song has been the means of saving life. On one occasion when Luigi Lablaehe. the | great opera bssSo, was aimlessly stroll ! ---s siIsSlsn r1Ivn Iair ne was gur- ! prised by a sudden stampede of the l sightseers, who rushed by him in great panic. crying that one of the great bears had escaped from the me nagerie. So surprised that he scarcely realized his danger, the singer stood his ground and almost immediately found himself face to face with the maddened beast, which halted for a moment before making it's final rush In that moment Lablache began to sing one of his faEorite airs in voice so deep and terrifying that the bear slunk away. thoroughly cowed.
 1 It was this same singer who. when l confined to his bed by a broken leg | was surprised by his landlady, who 1 burst into his room, crying that a rob | Der was in the house and was about tc ] kill her husband unless he revealed the ! hiding place of their money and plate 1 Lablache, unable because of his injury ] to give other assistance. began to sing an, aria In such thunderous tones as l to terrify the robber, who Hed.
 | Mme. Giulia Grisi was once travel ! ing from ths south of France to Paris f in company with several companions 1 of her own sex. when their privacy | was intruded upon by a man who en. ! tered their apartment at a wayside sta { tion. Before long he began to act so | oddly as to make the women appre- i hensive and at last terrified them by ! drawing a razor, which he began 10 ! flourish, at the same time demanding that he be permitted to sever their : heads The women realized that they l had madman in the carriage with them and also that they were without ! protection until the next stop of the train In consequence they became bysterical-all save Grisi, who with great coolness suddenly began to sing in a soft voice that gradually assumed volume as she gained the attention of the man, whose threatening attitude fave way to rapt attention as the song advanced. Song after song did Grisl sing, and not another movement did the man make until the next station was reached, when the alarm was giv- en and he was taken into custody. It transpired afterward that he had es- capped from a lunatic asylum.
 T s..I q Tr- E,r.r own, but hundreds of other lives by her gift of song. A fire broke out back of the stage in small theater in her native land where she was singing. The audience became alarmed, and there might have been panic had not Jennie Lind stepped coolly out upon the stage and begun singing q 2fayorite folk song. Reassured and entranced, the audience reseated themselves. and the fire was soon extinguished.
 Another well known opera star while travelling with some friends in Mexico was surprised by company of half breed bandits, at whose approach the escort fed, leaving their charges to the mercy of the robbers. The attitude of the latter on finding that their captfves had little money and yaluables syas menacing in the extreme, and the tray elers all expected tc be murdered that night. When the robbers were eating their supper the star began to sing and his captors were so delighted that filau danandad- more IsaSrla fine I.e gratffied them, hut at last suggested that he should sing for the freedom of himself and his friends. To this the bandits, cheered by wine and song agreed, and after having sung for au hour be and his companion were free.
 Kneissel, the notorious Bavarian brigand, once planned to rob house in the neighborhood of Munich and, if necessary to secure the money and plate he knew was in the house, mur- der the inmates, young married wo. man and her two female servants. His approach was heard by the wife, who, instead of losing her head, sat down to her piano and began to sing. The brigand listened for awhile and was sn the point of forcing an entrance into the room when the song ceased and 6 mans voice struck up a rollick. ing air, to be followed in a few mo ments by a third mans voice singing familiar chorus Kneissel paused The husband evidently had returned unexpectedly and had brought with him a friend. He was not prepared to attack the house against tive men, sH he beat a hasty retreat, little thinking that the voice he had heard proceeded frsn the lips sf the young wife, nn' singer, who was an adept at mimicry. Ssms years ago q released convict went to the house of the Indiana judge who had sentenced him to prison with the intention Of shooting him. AS l he crept nearer to the window beside ] which the judge was sitting and raised [ his revolver to fire the sweet voice of the judges wife nosted out on ths } summer air from the bedroom, where she was singing her baby to sleep. al unconscious of her husbands peril The lullaby she sang was one that the | conVict's mother used to eToon to him 5 and, throwing aside his reyolve-, Sl : walked boldly into the house and ca ! lesscd to the judge his intention. Th' fudge befriended him and he is toda. one of the most influential and respect ed citizens of q town in the far west . fiddle Farrar fin Chicago Record-He
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