The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22

Ellen BEACH YAW
PROUD OF STATE
Famous Opera Singer Claims
California for Her Girl
hood Home
Tells How She First Discovered
Her Voice Range for
High Notes
By 9. 9. Carlton

BY CT G. Carlton
NEW YORK. March 21.-Ellen Beach
yaw, the American girl who lived for
years in California and proudly claims
that state as her home, vas seen at the
Hotel Martinique after her success in
Lucia at the Metropolitan opera house
tonight She said:
Naturally am well pleased at hay
ing had d chance TO sing before an
American audience. | have sung in
opera in Europe, OF course. but never in
America where l am only known for
my concert work and my ability 10 sing
extremely high notes. 1 was born in
New York and later went to live in
California. which l really claim as my
home state l returned here TO study
with Mime. Torpadie- It was while
studying with her that 1 discovered my
high notes
4 was practicing one day away from
the piano scales OF some sort. They
went very high and did them so easily
that wondered If I couldn't go higher.
So l sang up three or four notes. I
rushed 10 the piano and found that i
was singing c above high c.
After studying in New York for
some time l went west and visited
friends in Eau Claire, Wis. One night
they asked me 10 sing AT concert and
l did So quite impromptu.
SINGS MAD SCENE
7 remember that I sang the mad
scene from Hamlet and several Eng
fish ballads. The audience was enthusi-
astic and Immediately l was engaged
for a series Of concerts i sang three
months Of concerts that season and
seven the next.
L studied with Nine Marchesi for
three years. I made my operatic debut
7
an orchestra director that my voice was
dramatic soprano. that ] should not
sing coloratura roles Through his ad-
vice I learned Adriana Lecouvreur.
Nine. Marchesi was aghast at this
There are plenty of dramatic So
pranos.' she said. but no one to sing
the old operas. Stick to your metier.'
so much has been written about
your high notes. Miss Yaw- How high
can you sing?' / asked.
4 sing the K an octave above the Z
over high c. But of arourse ] can't
give much musical value to note as
high as that 1t must be quick and
staecato. But the @ above high
can hold ! may introduce change or
two in the. score of Lucia 10 place
some effective high notes. The csden-
zas 1 use~were written by Marchesi
EXPECTS WEEKS LEAD
Montague Roberts. who drove the
Thomas automobile from New York 10
! Cheyenne, said TO The Calls corre-
spondent that he expects the car to
reach san Francisco about April l.
full week ahead OF its closest CON-
petitor. Roberts said
Il would not have missed the ex-
perienee for anything in the world.
When the Grand Prix is over IN July
I viii go across Europe and through
C-<s- =
get on the car again in order TO finish
at Paris. Do I think the car will
finish2 1 know it Will. There viii be
nothing that viii keep US from getting
through II the roads are impossible
one way we VIII find another. We
viii get to Paris unless we lose the
car itself by going through the ice
on some Alaskan or Siberian river
I expect TO encounter nothing much
harder than our terrible plowing
through northern Indiana From Ken
dallville TO Chicago 4 remember noth-
ing but digging drifts We knew then
what TO expe-, however. and we en-
gagged two horses TO accompany US.
They helped pull as out when we stuck.
but we soon found that two teams
; were not enough II took 10 horses
al one time 10 pull US clear OF a huge
drift We had them beside US con-
stantly.
The drifts in some places were fully
; 80 feet high These we went around
over fields and through fences, until
we thought there were no roads what
ever in the state The snow stretched
everywhere, an unbroken blanket COW
ering the earth in an uneven roll. and
you could never tell whether il was
one or ten feet deep. At Burdick il
was something frightful. / was on
my feet or at the wheel for~72 hours
through that stretch. and when I
reached Chicago 1 was completely tired
out
Roberts Indignantly resents an insin-
uation made by his competitors that at
the Thomas shops in Buffalo his car
was thoroughly overhauled and some
new parts supplied TO replace those
dana ged or worn out
JOHN MADDEN GLAD
John Madden. who sold Meelick 10
sam HiIdreth. was as happy as a clam
when he read OF the horses great per-
formance in the Crescent City derby
/ He had always contended that Meelick
was good one, and early last season
he asked more for the colt than Hill
dreth paid him. He did not get a good
price In the fall. because Meeiick failed
to hold his own with the crack ? year
olds through the summer.
1t would have paid Madden TO have
saved Meeiick until this season. Fred
erick Forsythe could not, il will be
remembered, get $4,000 for Montgom-
cry the year before last even after the
Pessara colt had been beaten by the
narrowest margin in a race of one
mile run in better than lag. But after
Montgomery victory in the Crescent
City derby the astute Kentuckfan had
no difficulty in selling him for s25 00O
w r Hearst and James r Keene.
who Jointly head a syndicate that owns
La MuIa ranch in the state of Chihua-
/ hua. Mex. are having all sorts Of
/ trouble with Mexican squatters They
have finally. prevailed upon the Mexi-
can government to send a squadron OF
cavalry to dispossess the squatfers.
who have lived so long on the property
I that they have come TO regard il as
{ their own The ranch embraces 200. .oo0
acres The Hearst-Keene syndicate is
prospecting for oil Several fairly good
wells have already been found
CRoCKERS TO STAY