The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21

York went Wild over him. and after his
engagement With the Black Crook, he
went to Boston. where he played In the
.Naiad Queen" and led the orchestra OF
the Boston Theater until January II.
1874. when at matinee performance he
retired from the stage, complaining OF a
Cancelled for that night and ne retired
early. but about midnight his father
heard him say God. can YOU make room
for another little child I'm heaven?" Ills
father on receiving no answer found the
boy dead. His death brought from
Thomas Bailey AIdr,ch a written appeal
which resulted in the founding Of tns
Boston Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty To Children.
Patti Debut at Seven.
or all musical prodlgios OF our day the
ono who arose 10 the greatest distinc-
tion in mature years was Adcllna Patti
she was born i'm 1Si3. in Madrid. whence
h"r iatner z musician. and her mother,
an opera singer brought her 10 America,
when she was n baby. and soon after
ward she delighted to stand upon table
and Sing by heart tho words and music
OF most Of the airs she had heard her
mother sing. 1t seven. whom the nc
company!ng picture was taken. sh" made
| her New York debut at Nlblos Garden.
| and two years later she was regularly
singing between the acts at the old Ly-
| tlte Adelne" And she was only sixteen
when she made her New York debut
as an adult az the Academy OF Music.
| such precocity was no more fatal to her
career than II was TO those Of the great
masters. Mozart, Meyerbccr and List.
| Mozart at three composed simple cho-
rails at the harpsichord and at four could
! play number or mlnuctS. while at five
| he had composed and written several
! trifling compositions. When he was six
| nc played at courts and the well known
| this age. playing Il duet with bis little
sister. Marianne. before the Empress
| Maria Theresa. Before he was eight no
| had published six sonatas and when
| twelve hc wrote mass, which he con-
Quoted I'm the presence OF the entire court.
And Meyerbcer played at a concert when
six and was recognized as the master
pianist Of Berlin when only nine while
| Llszt made his concert debut at nine and
| at twelve made the great triumph at
Vienna which ended in Beethoven's kiss
Ing him when he finished playing.
Maude Adams Began at Nine Months.
Infant prodigies have grown TO be sue
cessful artists In the drama, also, as In
the case Of Maude Adams. who had a
speaking part on the stage as early as
five, when, in 1877: she played Little
Fritz" plays. But this was not Miss
Adams' stage debut by any means. for
that important event had occurred at
the age of nine months, when she played
the title role In THE Lost Child" julia
Marlowe made her debut as Josephine in
"Pinafore" at twelve. and Ada Rehan
first bowed to the footllghts when at
thirteen she played Clara In ACROSS the
Continent" Otis Skinner played a negro
part at Woods Museum, Philadelphia,
when twelve. and Henry E. Dixey was
only ten when he began as Peanuts in
"Under the Gasllsht" But Of all Ameri-
can artists the stage today, Elsie
Leslie made the greatest success as a
child actress. When five she played
with jefferson Little Meenie in RIP
Van NEipk1e - on6 when only she 81
pleased Mrs. Burnett by her acting the
title role IN "Idithas Burglar" that she
was selected to originate the title part
in Little Lord Fauntleroy," In which
she became famous as the seven-yeer-
old star. After starring also in Mark
Twaiu's "The Prince and the Pauper.
she left the stage at ten until She was
eighteen,
Such careers as the most OF these tend
! to explode the old notion that unusual
rrccocity aUgurs premature death or .
long life membership In the Great Me
dlocrity JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.