The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-02
CORA TRACEY is A SPLENDID TYPE
OF THE "AMERICAN-MA Artistic
Bv DOLBY DALRYMPLE
LINES WHICH DESCRIBE CORA
TRACEY'S VOICE.

1 LINES WHICH DESCRIBE CORA
1 TRACEY'S VOICE.
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Deep, clear and strong,
But oh, so sweet. so tender,
One perfect song,
Each tone a pure delight,
Sorrows revealed only the
| Soul doth render
Joys are disclosed
And vanish in the night
II.
Inwardly thrilled,
Too deeply awe-inspired,
More strongly touched
Than look or word betrayed,
For those who heard
All that the heart desired
Seemed as by magic
Instantly portrayed
III
Such the effect
On others she impresses,
Something within those tones
Quite underlined
Reaches each heart,
With beauty it possesses
fingers forever,
Endlessly enshrinedl
If you heard Cora Traceys lovely
voice with the DeKoven Opera COM
pany last season in 'Robin Hood"
I'm sure you will agree with me that
she is a splendid type of the Amer
ican-made artistic.
IF you are ever lucky enough to
meet her as was yesterday I'm sure
you will agree with me that she has
the same big, fine, wholesome, intel
1ectual poise whose possession she has
shown so wonderfully on the stage and
when you talk to her having previous
ly thought of her simply as an ar
tiste in the wide sense of the word,
and hear her make casual mention of
something as being zone of our proud
est possessions as Americans" you
will get mild mental shock as you
recall that with most of the import
ant artistes you've met before, it is
always a case of you Americans no
matter how much they like us, and no
1--WE Americans"
This may not be a statement of any
great weight to you-it all depends
upon how you look at these things, OF
whether you look at them at all, for
that matter-but for a mere Inter
sional passion for differences" there
can be no possible doubt of it's i'm
portance; and that is why this turns
out to be an invitation to you to
listen to a few things that Miss Cora
Tracey, American artistic, has to say
about American music. American mu-
sicians. American composers and the
American girls chances as an opera
singer.
Miss Tracey is unusually interest
ing; she is artistic to her finger tips;
she is devoted to her work, and she
is daintily refined and gentle in her
manner and adorab1y patrician in her
likes; she went on the stage when
she was II ~~ears old and then fell
in love with a wonderful man CHATS
exactly what she said, and I believe
her, because I'm sure nothing short
of a very wSnderful man could win
her affection) and for a number OF
years she lived in the far west-to
be exact, near Butte, Mont, in a min
ing camp, where her husband. who is
a capitalist, financiered a big deal and
where she spent some very happy
years
But we hope she will never do it again,
for the glory of her beautiful voice sthe
unique place she has made for herself
on the stage, is too shining to again
Tracey will one of these days have her
name flashed in big letters over some
Zig Broadway theatre as "star" of the
first magnitude.
None of which I meant to say at all,
because expected to let Miss Tracey do
some of the talking. but really you just
can't help saying nice things about this
bright, clever girl, even though she
laughs at you when you want to say
TO IN ri IN hoo rf' FOL
The main thing that impressed me with
Miss Tracey in my brief chat with her
was as I said previously her "Ameri-
canisms.'
ct believe my heart is in Kansas City,
although call Montana home" she said
feelingly. for it was there that played
dolls and went to school and formed my
young friendships, and it was really there
that Marie Doro (who was my best
friend) and I got up little plays and she
composed the music and the words of the
songs and sang them, and we planned