Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-06-03
PULLMAN GIRL WINNING FAME
Miss Ella Kennel, Well known Here
Rising Rapidly in the Musical
World.

Last Sundays Review contained
"a good picture of Miss Ella
Kennel, who graduated from the
Washington State College last year,
and also contained statement that
Miss Kennel plans to go to Europe
to complete her musical education.
1t is her ambition to study for the
stage and probably enter grand
opera.
The many friends of Miss Kennel
in Pullman and Colfax, where her
entire life has been spent, will be
rejoiced to learn of her good fort
une. She has already won an envi-
able reputation as a singer, and is
drawing a handsome salary, with
bright prospects for advancement.
She recently toured California. where
she won the hearts of large audi
ences. The Spokesmau-Reyiew says:
Miss Ella Kennel of the Rid
path hotel, is one of Spokane's most
promising singers. Recently she has
studied with Nine. Florence Doria
Miss Kennel hopes to go east in the
fall for further study, and eventual
ly to go abroad to study for the stage.
In her concert work in California,
Miss Kennel received much praise. ="
OF course The Spokesman-Reyiew
will claim Miss Kennel as Spokane
girl. Spokane always claims every
thing in sight, but Miss Kennel is.
in the strictest sense of the word,
a "home product" of the Palouse
country. She was born in Colfax,
spent her childhood there. gradual
ing from the ColfaX High school and
coming to Pullman to complete her
education. She is a neice of Miss
Josephine Hoeppner of the State Col
lege. During the four years she was
in the college she won much praise
by her singing and as a member of
the Polohymnia trio won the praises
of hundreds of music lovers, who
heard her sweet voice at public en-
tertainments.
Miss Kennel made music and Ger
man her major studies while in the
State College and Immediately after
receiving her diploma she was en-
ployed to teach German in the Ro-
salia high school at a salary of $50
per month. That would be considered
a good salary for a man or woman
teacher of mature years, but, for a
girl of only 2 and her first school
was regarded as almost phenomenal
and Miss Kennel received many con
gratulations upon her success. Her
friends, when congratulating her.
had no idea that, long before the
she would resign to accept a posi-
ton as singer in the leading hotels
of the northwest at $50 per week
and expenses. Yet, such is the case
Last Winter Miss Kennel called
upon the writer to ask about the re-
sponSibility of the work which she
had been offered, namely that of so
loist in the grill room Of the Hotel
Spokane, the Hotel Portland, and the
Hotel Tacoma, the leading hotels Of
the three cities in which they are To-
Gated, and which are owned by the
same company. She had been Of
fered $35 per week to sing in these
hotels, and to use her own words:
4 intend to make music my life
work. If this work is entirely re-
spectacle it means so much to me to
secure it now" Upon being assured
that the work is entirely proper for
a young lady, Miss Kennel resigned
her position and accepted the place.
She has made good, and is bringing
honor to her relatives and friends
and to the school from which she re-
ceived her diploma less than year
ago.
Miss Kennel has host of friends
and well Wishers in Pullman and Col
fax, who are delighted with her sue
cess. She has not had the adyant-
ages that many girls have had, for
her father died when she was but a
little child, but she had ambition and
was not afraid of work She put in
every hour possible at her chosen
work and her advancement was
steady and rapid. She was among the |
youngest graduates of the ColfaX
Oh school and graduated from
State College with high |
honors." The Herald predicts for her
a bright future. She has a voice
which music critics pronounce phe- !
and she he's the courage ana !
ability to improve il to its utmost. |
1t win not be surprising if, in the not |
far distant future. Miss Kennel be
comes one Of the worlds famous |
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