The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-12
MISS DAISY LIE DALE AND HER LOVELY VOICE PLEASES MANY ADMIRERS ATTHE PRESS CLUB
By DOLLY DALRYMP..E

T. you haven't heard Miss Daisy Le Daie sing at the Press club, get busy and do so.
 She has a wonderfully pretty voice. dramatic and big and when the high. beautiful notes of her clear soprano ring through the attractive cafe. you imagine that some favorite grand opera singer has stepped down from the Metropolitan boards into our midst and is regalng us with their artistic music.
 Miss Le Dale has scored a big hit in Birmingham; she has made lots of friends not only by her lovely voice, but by her charming personality.
 She is very handsome, with eyes like Anna Held's that wont behave and glorious Titan hair and her stage" presence, so to speak. is very attractive.
 Singing in cabaret is not new to me-" Miss Le Dale was saying yesterday In chatting about her pleasant associations at the Press club "as l began this sort of work in New York when the fad was first launched. The larger cafes and clubs there were among the very first to intro- duce singing during the luncheon and din- ner hour and after the theatre and sing ins at Churchilfs and Rectors. and other popular cafes in New York gave me a glimpse of that sort of thing and I've liked it tremendously and have been doing that class of work ever snce.'
 My coming to Birmingham. however, was quite an accident" Miss Le Dale continued. T came south from Charles tor W. Va, in an automobile with party Of friends and just happened to stop here for visit. The opportunity came for me to sing at the Press club and l was de- lighted, so stayed, and here I am! have never sung to more appreviative audiences and never have been more cordially re- ceived than in Birmingham. It is a great pleasure to sing to such charming audi ences and such large ones. too-unusua1iy large for a club"
 You know l really never meant to be a public singer at all, said Miss Le Dale. T was born and bred in Youngs town, O., and my parents being good, old fashioned Baptsts, absolutely shuttered at the mention of the stage or anything pertaining to it, so when I wentzto New York to study voice with Oscar Saenger and he encouraged me 70 study for the stage, there was almost a rebellion in the ranks However. afterward when I con soled my family by telling them that 1 had an ideal to live up to, my ideal being Miss Mabel Mckinley, whose stage career has been such beautiful example to girls who have such aspirations, they soon became reconciled to the fact thas 1 was destined to be footlight devotee.'
 Have you sung in opera at all?" 1 asked.
 "Oh. yes-light opera. Miss Le Dale said '1 sang the leading role in The Isle of Spice and The Prince of Pilsen and after that went into vaudeville. The first work, however, that I did was ora tcric church work Mir. Saenger, whom 1 consider one of the best teachers in the world was most encouraging from the first lesson | ever took from him to the last, and always advised an operatic ca reer for me. I was training for church work at first, and then as I said, the stage appealed to me as it does to so many other girls. and so 1 tried it.''
 How did Miss Mckinley happen to be your ideal?" I asked.
 My father and President Mckinley were great friends when they were boys" said Miss LeDale, "and when I began to work out my own life, and what wanted to do, l decided that if such splendid girl as Mabel Mckinley could go on the stage and make a place for herself, as she has, l could do the same thing. To me she has very wonderful person. sonality and her career has been one of real inspiration.
 "Cre of my first engagementso Miss Le Dale said, was with MT. Sousa and