The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-31

Of gratitude in her throat was lost I'm
wonder to see every path leading TO
the hotel lined with crowds clothed In
varying shades OF khaki and blue
denim
At the hotel the performers found
themselves In their kitchen green room
with two busy cooks trying TO cleanse
the cups" without sound OF odor. That
they succeeded 50 well is a tribute no
less-to themselves than to the tireless
kindness OF Mr.. Davis.
The audience was certainly mixed
Miners and millionaire mine owners,
baseball champions and dainty apple
, checked maidens clad in sweaters or
serge, children in cvoralls, men and
women OF distinction dressed in the
rough garb OF mOuntaineers the sing
er herself charming in a khaki dress
with red sailor collar and a wreath of
red indian paint-brush and ferns
around the braids coiled about her
shapely head-Miss Grant. also a svrn-
phony In brown-these details struck
the observer with a sense of fitness to
time and occasion. There were no pro-
grams, only the announcements made
by II. q. whitney. who, with G. S. Bur-
ton, had charge of the whole affair.
The platform-being simply a trun-
die bed with boards nailed across
was bit low and considerably circum-
scribed, but the quartette, composed
OF Messrs. Piper. Whitney, Ensign
and Spencer who, opened the concert
with Beauty's Eyes" managed 10
stand comfortably while they sang
with unusual effect.
When Miss Gates came out through
the folding door, the round of ap-
plause was none the less hearty than
when she stepped upon the stage
weeks ago clothed in satins and Iaces.
she was at ease. and the fifteen-year-
Old violinist, Miss Romania Hyde. who
came out with her to play the obli-
cato TO the Ave Maria" with her dark
beauty. was fitting foil to the Berlin
singer In canyon garb. From the last
thrilling high G of the Ave Maria"
to the last note of the last song. every
thing and everybody was wholly at
tentive. You should have seen the
surprise and delight Of Miss Gates and
the surprise and delight OF everybody
else when Mr.. Owen came forward
with a great basket OF flowers Hot
houseT Not for Brightonl Huge mar
guerites embedded in plumy ferns and
moses, with arching handles. gave q
metropolitan air to the offering. Miss
Cohens name was on the card at
tached TO this appropriate gift. which
put the singer and her audience in
nigh good humor. That the associ-
ated artists were at their best showed
in every note. Miss Hyde is another OF
Utah's embryo artists OF first rank.
needing only time and training TO
make Of her a luminous star of the
first magnitude. There are those that
say frankly that Miss Edith Grant pos
sesses a voice whose tone is so near TO
that OF Miss Gates and whose natural
gifts are also like her successful friend
that she needed but the full training
and opportunity to become a world
famous singer. As Il IS. the haunting
sweetness OF that old English ballad.
Believe Me, II All Those Endearing
Young Charms" will linger In every
heart who listened that night under
The pines In Brighton while Miss Grant
sang her own heart into every word.
Il. ;. Ensign's voice was never more
sonorous and forCeful than under the
spell that rare evening. The accom-
paniments played by Miss Gates her
self, by her brother, Brigham Cecil
Gates, and by Miss Mary Grant. were
tender. sympathetic and soulful
Then Miss Gates sang some delicious
DTS OF Chadwick's-one a Persian love
song-that touched and thrilled every
musician there. But they weren't all
musicians-you see! And MANY Of
that strangely mixed audience were
waiting anxlously. quiveringly for
they knew not what But Miss Gates
knew! She knew that people NAV
near the meadow lark sing fits plain
tive, delicate airs every day in the
sprinstime: but, after all. IL Is the
nightingale, the golden canary. with
its trills and runs and roundelavs that
sets the nerves quivering and the heart
aIlame. So back came the singer