The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-19
WENT ON WITH THREE Houas
NOTICE AND TOOK pIAcE or
PROMINENT OPERA SINGER.
somsthIna About the Little Lady to
De Seen Here In "The Fireny''
Christmas Day.

- INC euNiapie record OF
MISS Edith Thayer. the diminutive pri-
ma uonna IN The F1rehy, which will
Dc presented at the Court on Christ
uas and the day following.
Miss Thayer Is the tiniest person
imaginable. She stands four feet.
eieyen-four feet nine and one-half
without heels-and weighs ninety
eight pounds and a half as she in.
formed me. her manager prompting
and for my ear aloneS.but Eve sainad
a little bit. really lint I'm, eoing 80
tell about that. thouch %
She is an amazinr huna,. ., MI,
someness-a uerfect testimony % ,hs
truth OF the old saw that good tb,nss
always come IN anal, nsct.~as = g.
has a marnetism = nio,ancy ,.,,s
of pretty ernres.ion al 80, .n
portion 10 her size Ara d..nt,s an.
fact that she h.. h..,, ta,.d go a..
tered al few etrls N ,wsn,S-csa Ia.
been. she isn't even n ,rIfs concas,.s
She rather hates 70 t,iL aho,,, hsrs.,,
and you have 10 make nneynsc,ed con-
vocational sorties mo. re- Ss,sn
from ali sorts OF differen, anr,es hs.
fore Won elicit the scran ~ ,rsorr,s,io,
that she IA willing 10 Give vo,
But by and nv ~ xou ars dr,, mn
tient-you have 10 be rntien, Sor he
fore you have seen her half n dozen
minutes Won are sure 20 no ,rsrnan-
dously Interested IN the IIttle 1ady
Then IL deyelops ina, her home a. 49,
Boston. Merit abe will tan vo,, how,
she went To school in the HIM ana
how as a child she studiad and niavad
and practiced endless hours On ,hs
piano.
Hated the piano
She Will confide In YOU too. with a
genuinely childish naivete that Is one
OF her most charming traits, how she
did tell the story And how / did
perhaps you gather courage from this
TO ask her how. II she hated the piano
so. II was at first intended that she
become an instrNmentalist instead or
vocalist.
Whereupon she will answer with a
piquant little moue that mother
made her. Il began piano lessons
when l was Ave." is how she really
did tell the story. And hoy l did
abominate practicingl But mother
used always TO sit beside me with a
hair-brush. and IL l didn't practice.
there was the hair-brush as an altern-
alive. Generally practiced" and here
she contributed one OF those ripping
- $3.50 - -
tervals for punctuation
AS result OF Miss Thayer's en-
forced practicing she really became
most proficient little musician. and
wnen she was about fifteen went
abroad with her mother TO study the
piano. Already she had sung quite
Dit, TIT chieny Tor her own delecta-
ton, and no one had realized the
promise OF her voice. But when she
was established in the student quarter
IN Paris, some one who could recog-
nize It's possibilities, did hear her sing,
and tnen IL was farewell forever 10 the
otner type OF musical career She took
up ner vocal studies In sober earnest
with Jean deReszke. and this time she
had no Discrimination for pracucing.
Three years and haf she studied
with the great tenor sticking pretty
closely 10 farls the wnile, ana then
TOR the last six months OF her stay
abroad she took time for little sight
seeing visiting the BRUSH Isles, and
Swltzeriand' with littie side excursions
into other countries. One OF her envi-
able experiences was tWo-months
tour OF England win grand opera
company She went as a tnehDer OF
the choras, ehleny ior tne framing II
Moulu anoro; ana now anu men sot
- 49, -, 'N'' 81
TOUT ZINES.
rr0m Ooso"sIty 70 O'et
va " ~ 49,
Ssaus' anu ma. snla1hs LUMP I'm
voseIuly - W a. ien "a rs -, %
s.'sn'. 90
y ~. :, 'S h... ~ an 's,.oS .,.sa Std ~,
-. - ~ h1a'rda .-,lar, 800 ,hs
tn -. ~. ,.,,aoss,,,S, Atiss A1ica zar.
LII a, ~ rs,,,,,eI 20 ..-rhs. c,e,shs =
20 - 49,, ,hgs nertod In her career
s sas syotiea hs, svgeetes, nnon ii,tls
Td,,h Tbsver N,tss zsnneIli fell I'M.
90 -. 10, ,,ndsr.,,,dv vas ,.,led
80, 20 NAV Ter mari win only
sbres horrs' nofice and with no time
even for = rehearsal this slIp OF
fUenfv.year-old giri went on 10 an as
best me might the place OF a present.
dav arand ouera singer. and no one
ave Miss Thayer herself will ever
Know how frightened she was that
night But I had 10 do Il. 80 ! did
An sbe SAYS
And a. luck would have ~. Mr. Ar
thur Hammerstein was In the house.
Mles Thayer's cngagement 10 play
tbe mart made famous by Emma