The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-18
MISS TEYTE WON WORLD HONORS BY
 DISOBEYING UNCLE
Interesting Story Of Prima Don- mas Battle To Study
 Music

while Miss Maggie Teyte, the dis
 tinguished English prinna donna, has
 met with phenomenal success in her
 professional career she has overcome difficuIties, surmounted obstacles and
 crossed barriers that would have de-
 tered a less ambitious person from trudginR another step along the high way that leads to fame Advers1ty, disappointnent and discouragement, however, have ever formed the curric- uluI11 in the school of experience. and it is from such a school that Miss
 Teyte was graduated with rare dis
 tinction This delightful artist wtI7
 make her initial bow to a Bridgeport
 audience when she appears at Polls
 Theatre next Sunday night, in joint
 concert with Edmund Burke, the pop ular Irish baritone, and Mark Ham bourg, the distinguished Russian pi- anist.
 | Tn AfHss TAeyHess professional life the greatest obstacle. perhaps. confront ed her at the early age o1 five years
 When mere baby Miss Teyte was loft an orphant and went to live un- der the strict roof of her natural guardian. William Teyte, her uncle, and a man of high scholastic attain ments and deep-rooted prejudice against the theatre. To his discern I4ng eye 1t was easily apparent that
 music found a peculiar ready response in the chtld's nature and as a means of counteracting my natural tendency in that direction the austere guardian personally assumed responsibility for her education.
 Tn line with d pre- conceived plan for the fuffllnent of his purpose Un- cle William admonished his little niece to leave the piano severely alone and ordered the servants to keep it locked if his ward showed the slight est inclinatfont to disregard his au- 4. | of study for the little one that was fcalcuIated to instiI a. desire to master abstruse mathematics and science as proper mental discipline in prepara- ton for the rigors of abstract phi1os- ophy as a necessary introduction to classical literature. Her little brain was oppressed with a weight it was never meant to carry and the rest it so much demanded music and music alone, it seemed, could give her. And 1 so she would steal to the old square piano that was regarded more as a of pleasure and in the absence of her
 uncle she would pick out little 1neIo- dies to the delight of her fancy and the relief of her restraint
 It was while indu1ging herself, one day, in a workable revelry on the key !5board that her uncle entereda~ the house without the usual announce ment attending his arrival His rage was without bounds Maggie must go to bed without her supper and as a means of preventing a repetition of such scandalous performances the lspiano was removed from the house. It was this little incident that stirred the wifulness of the usually subn1is- 1 stxe niece. It was the piano that qufckened the one emotion her nature Ecould not repress. It was music that [ fed her imagination and filled her
 thoughts and it was music that grad saallyS dominated the elements that
 contributed to her composition. She pleaded, she threatened and finally she demanded that she be permitted to study music and al last her uncle Icapttulated
 That was in the very beginning. The little girl. however, failed to impress her teacher with her talent for music and she was shortly returned to the home of her uncle, a rejected pupil
 and disappointment to herself. But lfhe affair was. not to end in this man
 ner. Fortune favored her. Through the permission of the choir master in 1 g. nearby cathedral where her brother
 was the boy solo soprano little Miss Teyte became g regular attendant at lSrehearsals. Months passed and the
 little sister seemed content with the mere privilege of hearing her brother l sing. Then came a particular occa- sion for which an elaborate musical program had been prepared. In the
 middle of the service the brothers voice broke completely. There was l af disquieting moments lapse and then the startled worshippers turned in 1 their pewsl to discover the child whose beautiful voice carried the melody from the chancel to the rear of the edifce where it seemed to re-echo l with a more ravishing appeal. It I was little Maggie Teyte who had come to her brothers rescue Enthusiastic 1 neighbors and friends besieged the Teyte home the following day and
 unable to resist theiF importunities I the distressed uncle finally gave his
 consent and Maggie Teyte was at last tlaunched upon the career that has since made her famous