The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07

Honorable Miss Barrison." An engage
ment was made for tryOut of the but
ton stunt at 10 a. m.
At the tryout Miss Barrison went to
her dressing room and came out quick
ly in the much unbuttoned gown, the
500 buttons, running from collar to hem,
cleaning defiance at Sato.
"On your mark, Get set! Coz yelled
the stage manager stop-watch in hand.
Sato's fingers flew down that line of
buttons like Paderewsk's over a key
board. After the last button he straight
ened up, hand held over his head.
''Sato wins in one minute and thirty
three seconds said the timekeeper,
gleefully.
Sato had a new job right away. Mr..
Shubert loaned him to The Blue
Mouse management indefinitely as
Honorable ButtOner-in-Chief. Now ali
he has to do is his lightning button feat
once at every performance, The rest
of his time is his own.
Jascha BrOn, the wonderfully gifted
young violinist, who will make his first
American tour this season, made his
public-debut as a violinist before he was
Z years old, playing the Seventh Con-
certO of Rade.
At the age of 6, at his urgent request,
he was enrolled as d pupil of the Royal
Music Conservatory at Kief, his native
city, and after he had studied there for
six months, his teacher arranged for
him to appear at one of the cOnserva-
tory concerts. Before the concert the
professor was decidedly more nervous
over the outcome of his experiment
than the child, and, to reassure him
self, kept encouraging Jascha, telling
I h. -
| etc.
Il am not afraid of the opinion of the
men," gravely replied the child, only
of the monkeys"
BY the monkeys" he may have meant
either the critics, or those in the audi
ence who might not be appreciative of
good music History doesn't relate, but
we do know that he received a tremen-
dous ovation after his concerto.
X X x
Kathleen Parlow, the famous young
Canadian violinist, who is to come 30
America in the spring as soloist with
] the Beecham London Symphony or
! chestra, has many interesting episodes
to relate regarding her brilliant career.
! Born in Canada, as a child she was
| taken to St Petersburg by her mother,
who carefully watches over her musical
destinies, to study under Leopold Auer
After she had passed the age of Is her
| life in the northern capital, one of the
/ most musical cities in the world had
many exciting moments for her Al
I though she was there under the tutelage
of an eminent professor, and working
| hard to perfect her wonderful natural
| gifts. she played almost as much in
| public as she has since her debut.
/ Russian society keeps incredibly late
| hours. In this connection Miss Parlow
| tells. of one particular occasion when
/ the well known editor Of the st. Peters,
| burg New Times, giving an evening
party to celebrate his jubilee, asked her
| to perform at the concert which was to
| follow. On looking over the long pro-
| gram she found her item was timed
/ for o'clock. Mildly demonstrating
that everybody would have left by then,
she was told that 2:9O to $3.50, being the
best time of the whole program, was set
apart for star artists"
|
| Elsie Ferguson has succeeded in win
ming high praise from the critics of the
| eastern press in her capable work as the
! little queen of Herzegovina, in POllOck's
play, such a Little Queen" Considering
| the brief space Of time since Miss FergU-
son became identified with the legiti-
mate drama, her success is phenomenal,
/ and Salt Lake is proud to claim her as
one of he rformer citizens.
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In view of the lifelong allegiance of
| the late Joseph Jefferson to ali that was
clean and wholesome in the drama, much
| interest must attach to a letter which
| Claiming Pollock has just received from
Jeffersons widow relative to Such a
Little Queens The letter reads:
My Dear Mr.. POliock-Please let me
thank you for an evening of delight in
! witnessing such a Little Queen" So
much tenderness, youth and charm l have
not seen in any other piece produced in
| recent years, and / cannot let pass the
chance to congratulate you upon having
! brought so much sweetness and cleanli-
I ness into the theatre. Mr.. Jefferson, who
thought these qualities of paramount i'm
portance in a play, would have shared
my pleasure in the WhOlesOmeness of
yours.
Yours gratefully,
| fSigned) MRS. JOSEPH JEFFERSON.
!
| Primo secundo, tertio, is good
| play" pronounces the clown in Twelfth
Night" and it surely is if home be added
| to first second and third This may
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