The Cairo bulletin., 1910-07-24
Metamorphosed
By DOROTHEA HALE
Copyright. 1910, by American Press
Association.

part to act, dance and sing A girl
about twenty years old. comely, with a
good figure and bright face, entered.
| "DanceY asked the manager,
The girl replied by pirouetting about
in good style.
| "Sing?"
She ran the scale. Her voice was a
| full, round soprano and very sweet.
The range was remarkable.
| "Act|
She recited passage In we'll
known play.
f, You are engaged"
Miss Fredrica Harrow proved sue
cess. She had In her certain spirit
of delivery that was especially appro-
| pirate to the parts she took. One role
| she played WAS that of II female Meph-
| istopheles When the audience left
the theater after the performance they
| felt that they had been under the in
fuence Of Il deliciously bad girl.
| One Sunday morning the manager
went to church 1t is possible for Il
manager of a burlesque troop to go to
church and with religious motives.
But this manager did not go with such
| motives. He went because he had
heard that In the choir was a remark
ably fine tenor. The services opened
with tenor solo. The manager was
astonished. There was Miss Harrow
| in mans clothes. He not only recog-
nized her by her face. but through her
voice, which was Miss HarroW's lower
notes
But there was one difference between
Miss Harrow soprano and Miss Har-
row tenor The latter was as heavenly
as the former was develish She sang
an ave Maria" and it seemed that
an angel rather than mortal was
| praying to the Virgin. The manager
| did not wonder that the tenor was ex-
| citing attention. But he had no use
for him In buresque opera. He ex-
| pressed the good, and with that the
manager was not concerned.
"Where were you last night?' asked
the manager the next day when Miss
| Harrow came to rehearsal
AT home"
| The manager said no more, He had
slept over the tenor's identity and had
not be Miss Harrow
Not long after that q man in his
| troupe fell sick, and there was no one
to take his part
How low are his lowest notes?"
asked friedrich.
! The manager told her. aud she said
that she thought she could take the
| part He also asked her 10 sing the
lower notes. but size said she couldn't
jump right into them; size must get it
by practice. She left him agreeing
to be ready for the part when required.
Miss Harrow in mans ..otheS was a
very different person from Miss iiar
row in womans clothes In the first
place, instead Of singing the part in n
low soprano voice, she sang il as a
tenor In the second. she made a fail
ure In her action. Instead of being
adapted to buresque. she sang as il
| she were in oratorlo.
"What the dickens is the matter
with you" said the manager after the
first act. Your singing is all right
! indeed, it's a wonder for a womau--
but you act as If you were preaching
sermon"
Miss Harrow hung her head and
| looked hurt. However. she finished
| the performance. and before the man
ager could catch her to find any more
fault with her she had gone home.
But the next day when she went into
the theater he tackled her.
"There was something funny about
your work last night. How did you
get down to real baritone. and what
made you act like clergyman"
Il told you that with little prac-
tee could do the low notes. and, as
| for my acting, the part is different
from those I've been playing. 1t is
not 4 rollicking role"
land II wasn't taken out Of hymn
DOohs ClthGls
I'm Sorry. / thought l could take
baritone parts sometimes
$50 you can. but not where there's
| any deviltry in them"
| In few weeks the regular baritone
wGs down again.
Il think" said Tredrica. 81 can take
that role It's more serious"
who'll take your part?"
II think | can take them both"
| Nonsense"
"I'll show you how 1t can be done to-
morrow at rehearsal" And she trip
| ped away.
| When the rehearsal came and tn
manager went on to the stage to con
duet 1t he was more bewildered than
ever. There were two Fredrlca Har-
rows, fine and superdne
"How's thisT" asked the manager.
staring from one to the other.
Permit me-" said Fredrica ito In
troduce my twin brother, Frederick
Harrow. he has tenor voice"
| Then she admitted that she had sub
stituted him for herself in the mans
part; that while she was all frolic he
was relIeiously emotional.
"Well," said the manager. II want
you two I have scheme for an
opera involving transformation
scene man metamorphosed to woman