Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20
ALFRED BEST, TENOR,
RETURNS TO HIS HOME
Well Known Singer Back 10 Rccuper.
ate on the Advice OF Ger
man Physician.

MIR. and Mrs. Alfred Best returned
home Friday afternoon from Europe.
and are now az their home. IFS north
Second West street. where a News
representative found Mr.. Best this
morning. He said. the first thing,
I'm glad you called because / want
exaggerated reports that have reached
here corrected. There is nothing what
ever the matter with my voice or my
throat was at special pains, before
leaving the other side, 10 have both
thoroughly examined by competent
surgeons who said both voice and
throat were all right. The difficulty
~ with my bronchial tubes / have
bronchitis, involving the bronchia
from the bifurcation down into the
lungs This is becoming aggravated
by an attack OF asthma, although there
Is nothing out Of the way with my
lungs. My physicians recommended
complete rest in another than the pres-
ent German climate for two years.
and suggested Italy or southern
france, but as this was not feasible,
they told me to go to my home eli
mate in Utah, and II that did not do,
10 go TO California. The doctors over
there have a high appreciation of cal
formal They think that is climate
equal 10 anything Europe has to offer.
The immediate cause OF the difficulty
mas been the absolutely unparalleled
cold. wet and raw weather that has
obtained all over Germany this season.
In fact they have not had any sum-
mer over there at all There has been
such prolonged damp spell that moss
Is growing I'm the public streets and
over front door yards. II was mora
than my bronchial tubes could stand.
You see that from the time | was IL
years old, / was afflicted with inter
mittent colds which resulted I'm an AT
fection Of the nasal passages requir-
ing prompt surgical treatment This
was cleared up, but the bronchia be-
came involved. the circular. gristle-like
processes tightening up sometimes so
as to almost shut on my wind shortly
after reaching Berlin late last fall.
from salt Lake. the chronic trouble
began. and Notwithstanding all that
could be done, u has got the better of
me-for the present
But in this bracing. healthful Utah |
climate, / may he all right in a couple |
OF weeks: though perhaps, after a |
while be down again. only the pre- |
sumption is that / will improve rath- |
er than deteriorate. II conditions are /
favorable, I shall probably open a |
studio here IN the fall and teach"
Mr.. Best Is bearing up bravely under /
his disappointment, and judging from
the strongly commendalory testimo-
mails to his abilities as a tenor, from the
press, his disappointment
must be a good deal deeper than is
evidenced on the surface. He had been |
readily accepted by a noted Berlin mu-
sic bureau. and booked for engagements
at the larger centers in the empire
But, as Ill fortune would have It, the |
old trouble returned not long after his
arrival from this country, and IL was |
so aggravated by the Unprecedented To-
cal meteorological conditions. that more
Or less constant medical. attention
was necessary. Mr. Best finally went to
a sanitarium at salzburs in siesia, the
last OF May. remaining there for three
weeks. But he failed TO find the de-
sired relief, and returned 10 Berlin,
where he was able TO cancel his en-
sagements.
on June 20, he sang at Antwerp. Hol-
and, where he scored n strong success. |
md the next week, at Ostend where
he had a double encore and three re-
'alls. At the same time. he was under
he Immediate care of a physician,
through whose well directed efforts he
vas able to acquit himself with the |
,reatest credit. The local press scat
cred bouquets all over him, one old
gentleman sending up TO the platform |
beautiful. large basket of flowers,
while the conductor Of the orchestra |
cached down to shake hands with the |
american tenor In hearty congratula-
ion. The range, fleXibility. and gen |
rally find quality of Mr. Best's voice |
realty impressed the Dutch critics, as
hey had also the German newspaper
men. But he found that the bronchial
Election robbed his voice Of its sweet
less and brlliancy. besides reducing
materially it's power So he had to give
p and return home.