Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-10-06
Metamorphosed
BY DOROTHEA HALE
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

Ut Hlo ueSh. ne utu gwen out tuat ne
needed one who could take woman's
part TO act, dance and sing. A girl
about twenty years old. comely. with a
good figure and bright face, entered.
Dancer asked the manager.
The girl replied by pirouetting about
In good style.
"Singy"
She ran the scale Her voice was a
full, round soprano and very sweet.
The range was remarkable.
"Act?"
She recited a passage in a well
known play
You are engaged"
Miss Fredrica Harrow proved a sue
cess. She had in her a certain spirit
OF delivery that was especially appro.
pirate to the parts she took. One role
she played was that of female Meph-
istopheles. When the audience left
the theater after the performance they
felt that they had been under the in.
huence Of deliciously bad girl,
one Sunday morning the manager
went TO church. II is possible for a
manager OF a burlesque troop to go 10
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 a 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 1t seemed that
an angel rather than a mortal was
praying to +he Virgin. The manager
did not wonder that the tenor was ex-
citing attention. But he had no use
for him in burlesque opera. He ex-
pressed the good, and with that the !
was not concerned.
where We're 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
come to the conclusion that he could
not be Miss Harrow,
Not long after that a man in his
troupe fell sick, and there was no one
10 take his part.
"How low are his lowest notes?"
asked Fredrica,
The manager told her, and she said
hat she thought she could take the
part. He also asked her 10 sing the
over notes, but she said she couldn't
Jump right into them; she must get it
)y practice. She left him. agreeing
o be ready for the part when required
Miss Harrow in mans clothes was
'ery different person from Miss Har
'ow In woman's clothes. In the first
,lace, instead Of singing the part in n
ow soprano voice. she sang 1t as
enor. In the second. she made fail
Ire In her action. Instead OF being
dapted to burlesque, she sang as If
he were In oratorio.
What the dickens is the matter
With your" said the manager after the
Irst aet-e ,Your singing is all right
indeed, It's 4 wonder for a woman
nut you act as If you were preaching
sermon. "itsa
Miss Harrow hung her head and
)oked hurt. However, sha finished
nj h.Fnrn hn D
ger could catch her to lind any more
ault with her she had gone home.
tut the next day when she went into
he theater he tackled her.
There was something funny about
our work last night. How did you
ct down to real baritone. and what
iade you act like clergyman"
II told you that with little prac-
ce | could do the low notes. and. rs
Or my acting. the part is different
rom those I've been playing. Ii is
OF rollicking role.
"And IL wasn't taken out OF hymn !
ook. either"
"I'm sorry. l thought / could take
aritone parts sometimes"
80 you eau. out not where IneTS !
ny deviltry in them"
In a few weeks the regular baritone
as down again. 4
81 think" said Fredrica. II can take
nat role. It's more serious" I
who'll take your partT'
81 think can take them both"
"Nonsensew
an show you how it can, be done to-
.orrow at rehearsal" And she trip
ed away.
When the rehearsal came and the
anager went on to the stage TO con-
act it he was more bewildered than
Ter. There were two Fredrica Har- /
rvs. ODE and supertine.
"How's thls?" asked the manager,
airing from one to the other.
Permit me-" said Fredrica. ito in
oduce my twin brother. Frederick
arrow. He has a tenor voice"
Then she admitted that she had sub
ituted him for herself in the mans
,rt; that while she was all frolic he