Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-26

castles in Austria Hungary was diff
ferent personality from the son or a
gardener. The marriage with the
countess then became a matter OF
course. when l think of my castle
l ponder on Fate's vagaries," said ku-
belik. within the pleasure grounds
are gardens ten times as large as the
little vegetable patch at Michle from
which my father won the maintenance
for my mother and family"
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Everybody seems to know something
about Adela Verne, the new pianist,
and the work she has been doing IN
Southern California. If all the people
who say they are going to hear her
second concert do so, Simpson audi
forum will not be large enough to
hold them. Miss Verne is the most
astonishing person you can meet WIN
in the musical world. Barely more
than a child, but her age admitted &c
be twenty-five years, she makes 10Y
of the piano. and finds easy amuse1
ment in the greatest difficulties ever
written by the masters who studiously
compose along the verge OF the iii
possible. >,
Before she played at Simpson audi
forum last week, nobody in town had
heard of her before. She had few
society letters of introduction IRON
London, where resides her cousin, Sl'
Hubert Kercomer, the famous painter
who was recently knighted. These let
ters she did not present, but as soon
as she played one program, everybody
wanted to see her, and invitations IoI
dinner rides, receptions and all thal
have poured in incessantly. MISS
Verne accepts few of them, but pre-
fers to put most of her time into prac-
tice work. brushing up on her next
,f,I. -l.1 oil n
son auditorium on Saturday afternoon
February l. 1t is practically all re"
quest program, and as many are from
brother and sister musicians, the hard
est compositions have been turned III
for her rendition.
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One of the most successful musicians
of the present day is a charming LITTLE
foreigner, Alma Krausse, who recently
came here for a season of rest In Call
fornia's delightful climate. She mas al
ready made many friends in Los An
peles and music lovers are looking Tor
ward with pleased anticipation to the
time when she appears before the pup
lie under Behymers management
A pupil of the great Print, her tai
ents have been developed to their full-
est extent POSSESSED of a VIGOROUS
and healthy physique, with delicate
and exquisite faculty of perception ano
faultless technique, the music that
flows from her sentient finger UPS mas
never failed to thrill her listeners.
Her possession of the two accom-,
plishments-the ability to sing and
play with equal skill and tinish-al~
ways proves singularly pleasing to her
audiences and insures against that
WEAKNESS which sometimes an entire
evenings performance devoted to in
strumental music alone induces.
She sings and plays with equal facil-
ity any piece of readable music pre-
sented to her and her representative
engages to forfeit $1,000 in case OF her
failure to do so.
There is a probability that the beau
tiful and powerful mezzo-soprano voice
will be heard at the next symphony
concert in the Auditorium in March. as
she is said to be the only artist now
on the coast who can sing the difficult
Wagnerian numbers. and music lovers
of the city expressed a desire that she
sing some of the old classical faVorltes
from Tannhauser and Lohengrin at the
March concert.