The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-04-25
W ERE ON A
SP ECIAL
I RAIN
PHONY ORCHESTRA IN
OGDEN
Famous Beauty OF the Concert Stage,
Myrtle Elvyn, One Of the Stars,
Has Had 25 Proposals.

The special train of five cars car
rring the Chicago symphony Orches-
ira To the Pacific coast, reached OS.
den at O'Clock last evening, but
did not depart until two hours later.
the delay being due In part to the
transfer of six pianos from tho bag
gage car Of the train.
While here, the musicians ate sup
per and then devoted their enjoy
able stop" as several expressed IT.,
to a promenade on the platform.
Willard Scowcroft and Chas. Ross
OF the Tabernacle choir were at the
Depot and were greeted by Chas
Beach. at the head of the orchestra.
Adolph Rosenbeckcr, the conductor,
Franz Wagner, cellist; Guy Woodland,
solo yiolnist: Myrtle Elvyn. pianist;
Add Hemmi, soprano II Frahm, con
tralto; Frank A. Preisch, basso. and
David ID Duggan, tenor,
There are 65 members of the or
chestra, and singers In the party and
they made up good part Of the big
crowd on the platform as they strolled
alongside the train.
This is AGolph Rosenbeckers fourth
trip west with the orchestra and his
eleventh year with that organization.
Franz Wagner is Mr.. Rosenbecker's
rlGht-hand man, As a celliSt he has
few equals. He was recitlng some OF
his concert experiences to a repre-.
sentative Of tins paper when the con-
yorsation turned on his home town OF
Constance, Germany, and he related
u 4 - NO..
pelin, after his return from America,
in the early seventies, had fired him
as a young fellow, with the ambition
TO reach America or late his mo.
thcr has written of Count Zeppelin s
achiey yementS with his dirigible. In the
success OF his townsman he has taken
Eardonable pride. although Mi Wag-
ner Is thoroughly American and
holds to the opinion that great mu-
s!cians can be produced in this
country without studying abroad.
Perhaps the most notable person on
the train was Myrtle Elvyn, famed as
the habdsomest woman on the concert
stage. She IS winsome and graceful
in her natural dignity and, best Of all,
she is talented and ranks with the
great DianiStS of the world.
When Myrtle Elyyn was about to
start on this trip she submitted TO
the readings of a palmist, who said
she would meet her affinity In San
Francisco, after having rejected twen-
ty-siX proposals She has had twenty.
five offers of marriage to date. and
the near approach to the twenty-slXth
has so alarmed her mother. who Is
accompanying her daughter, that
Mama has decided to be present at
all interviews in which a man Is the
subject of conversation.
The young lady, now twenty-five
years old. was born in Sherman, Tex
rs, where she became recognized at
the age OF three years as a musical
prodigy. When she was one year old
she could carry 4 tune. and. at two
and one half years, she one day made
her way to the piano, sang lullaby
and played her own accompaniment
This remarkable evidence Of musical
temperament resolved her mother
to give her child musical training
and since them Myrtle has been pre-
pared for the profession to which she
is devoted beyond all other ambi-
tions,
The entire orchestra is made up of
masters and on the return to Ogden on
May IL should create stir In music
al circles.