The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-18
BIC HIT IS MADE
BY LITTLE FOLKS
St. Patrick'S Concert at Salt
Lake Theater Is Pronounced
Success.
GREAT AUDIENCE GREETS
THE YOUNG PERFORMERS
Children Play Parts Excellent
Iy, and Older People Also
Contribute.

The annual ST. Patrick concert
given at the Salt Lake theater Thurs
day evening for tho benefit of the
keans-St. Ann s orphanage, under
the direction of Miss Grace Sullivan.
was one OF the pronounced successes
pf the year. The annual concert for the
benefit of the little orphans has come
TO be one OF the big charitable sue.
cesscs of the year and the people of
Salt Lake this year responded TO the
call and packed the thcatcr
Though the proceeds were entirely
devoted 10 charity and the production
was by amateurs the immense audi
ence was given an evening entertain
ment that has seldom been cqualcd
TO Miss Grace Sullivan, the talented
young pianist, belongs much of The
credit for the wonderful success of the
concert Her work In directing two
hundred clover Youngsters. which evil
dcnced Miss Sullivan s talent as a di
rector, was httle short of marvellous.
Miss sullivan had charge of the an
nual concert for the first time this
year. In previous years the concert
has been under the direction of Miss
Nora Gleason, whose wonderful success
with these concerts has gained her
great reputation AS Il director of chill
al y
was called out of the city by the serious
illness of her mother just as she was
beginning the work of preparing for
the entertainment. When she left the
city she assigned Miss Sullivan TO the
difficult task of producing the enter
tainment and the concert as produced
is IL great credit both TO Miss Gleason
and TO Miss Sullivan.
Candy Given to Children,
Following tho performance, each of
the two hundred children was presented
with a box of candy by ]. d. sullivan,
the father OF Mis- Grace Sullivan.
The All lallows hand assisted great
ly in the success of The evenings en-
tertainment. The boys played like vet
Grams and their Irish medley was a
great hit The musicians responded 10
each move of The baton of Professor
Anton Peterson. who has been work
ing hard preparing the boys for the
concert
Miss Grace sullivan played The ac
compartments and supervised the en-
tire performance. Mrs. Corinne Harris
Hammer. y. j. Kisselburg and
Miss Florence Locke sang several
beautiful numbers during the concert
One hundred of the orphans sang two
numbers ut the performance and were
received with great applause. The lit
tie boys and girls whose only home is
within the walls of the comfortable
charitable institution established by Sen
ator Thomas Kcarns showed the re-
suits of the careful training of the good
sisters under whose charge they are
OF the many beautiful numbers in
The concert il is hard 10 single out those
which were the best All OF them were
so pleasing and so well received by the
apprcciatiVc audience that it would
scarcely be just TO the other numbers
to select any one which might be said
To excel the others.
Little Folks Make Hit
The little concert opened with
clever number, Dear Little Sham-
rock by Margaret Locke and chorus
of one hundred charming little tykes
Miss Connolly and Miss Veltz were
featured in the next two numbers
which were we'll received The girls of
The kcarns-St. AIMS orphanago fol
lowed with "The Dream of the u. S
A. and made n great hit with the au
dicncc, Miss Chance then recited "No
body's Child" and the boys of st.
Ann 5 followed with MY Pony Boy
turc
Miss Lydia White, in a harp selec
lion, "Thc Harp That Once Through
Tara IS Halls" played her way into the
hearts Of the audience. ''School-
mates was prettily sung by the girls
of st, Cecilia chorus. Thelma and
George Cronin were very pleasing in
Two clever duets. The boys of St
Laurence choir sang "Down in the
Sugar Cane The boys were all in
backface and sang the darky melody
with real darky grace. The finale Of
Columbia was pleasing conclu
sion to one of the most successful
charitable concerts ever given III Salt
Lake.
Senator Thomas Kearns, who en-.
dowed the kearns-St. AIMS orphanagc,
accompanied by Mrs. Kcarns, occupied
a box at the performance.
Western Plains'' Given.