Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-08-11
Pullman GIRL
TO sing IN PARIS
,y;ss Elaine Kennel Makes Her De.
hut in Grand Opera in French
Capital This Fall.

Pullman friends of Miss Elaine
Kennel, q graduate Of Washington
state College, class of 1909, and the
leader of the "Polyhymnia Trio"
which won renown troughout the
northwest during two seasons, will
be glad to learn that Miss Kennel
has secured contract to sing in
grand opera and will make her de-
but in Paris in October. Her first
role will be that of Juliet in Romeo
and Juliet" and she is now rehears-
ing for the part. AS Miss Kennel
speaks and sings English, French and
German and is an accomplished lin
guist her work in Europe will be
easy for her
At present Miss Kennel is com
pleting her studies in Boston, where
she has been for almost a year Her
instructor is Professor Percy Hunt,
husband of Katherine Ridgeway,
(Kate Hogan another Whitman
county girl who has won fame and
fortune in elocutionary work in both
Europe and America and who was
commanded to recite before King
Edward and the royal family in Lon
don, England, number of years
ago. She will complete her studies
and rehearsals next month and goes
to Paris to join the Metropolitan OPP
era Company, with which she has an
engagement for a year. Miss Ken
nells voice, always strong and sweet,
is said to show wonderful improve
ment under the training she has re-
ceived since leaving Pullman two
years ago last June.
Miss Kennel deserves the success
she has attained, for no girl who re-
ceived a degree in the Washington
State College ever worked harder
or with a stronger determination to
reach a high mark than did she
While she took languages as her ma
jor" study she devoted more time and
hard work to music, her own chosen
profession than to any other study
All who attended college entertain
ments or church entertainments in
Pullman where Miss Kennel sang
alone, or with the Polyhymnia Trio,
will remember her strong, sweet
voice, which she cultivated so care
fully and developed so well during
her school days. She loved to sing
and she believed that she had the
talent to make a mark in the must
cal world. Friends and relatives tried
to discourage this ambition and in
duce her to select educational work
as her aim in life and they were de-
lighted when, at the end of her
school work, she accepted Il position
as instructor in German in the Ro-
salia high school at a salary of $50
per month.
Miss Kennel was not nearly so
we'll pleased with her seeming sue
cess as were her relatives and friends
for she still longed to sing, and I'M
known to her family, she went to
Spokane and made application to
Manager Gross, of the Silver Grill,
to sing in that place. Speaking of her
appearance Mr.. Gross said; She APP
peared to me like a green, country
girl and | hesitated about even CIV
ing her a try-out, but the childish in
nocense and supreme confidence OF
her manner when she said, / can
sing and want you to hear me IN
duced me to give her trial, more to
please her than with any thought
that she would make good. She
sang for me and l was struck with
the wonderful quality Of her voice
and offered her a place.
Miss Kennel accepted the position
Of soloist in the hotels controlled by
the Normans, nam ely; The Spokane
at Spokane; The Portland, at Port
land; The Tacoma, at Tacoma and
The Yakima, at North Yakima. Hell
voice won her friends and attracted
the attention of music lovers ant
theatrical men. She was sent to Bos
ION to complete her education and has
now secured a position which hun
ufeds of sweet-voiced singers on Tho
american stage would be delighted
70 secure after years of public work