New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-28
By I. c. SCHANG.

TNhlS WAS Dig week Tor the W eeks
Il family. Little Marion Weeks, the
only girl whose voice was ever Endorsed
by President Wilson. sang her way 20
popularity at the Palace, while her
frowsy- headed sister, Ada May, as
cended the topmost attitudes of favor
aloft the New Amsterdam at the Zieg-
field Frolic.
Little Marion, who Is eighteen years
old and looks fifteen, discovered she
had a voice at the age of nine. She
Immediately decided to be a grand
opera prima donna. You know how
children will decide that they'll be
| thingsl
! Well, Marion cultivated this idea
with more intensity than she cultivated
the acquaintance Of her school books
And when she wasn't cutivating the
idea she was her voice. As a conse-
quence, very soon she went on the
stage.
Only a few weeks ago she was in
Washington, where she incurred the
favor of Mr.. Wilson. The President
admired the way she hit her high /
notes. "Ah!" he thought. Gould
but strike off notes with the dexterity !,
of this miss" That is, he thought |
something like that. No ore can be
positive. At any rate, he forthwith I
dispatched Miss Weeks a letter and an
autographed picture, saying that ne
thought she had "a lovely voice" All
Of these testimonials can be seen in a
neat frame standing at the door of
the Palace Theatre-or could last week
Miss Weeks has a truly remarkable
range, finding no difficulty whatever in
singing right of the north end of the
piano keyboard. Most OF the instru-
ments in an orchestra are utterly I'M
able to accompany her. she scars to
such attitudes. A flute always man
ages to stick, however, and her pet
selection ia a flute solo.
You're quite trick singer. aren't
you?" commented the caller
Indeed I'm not" flashed Miss
Weeks. "I'm a real singer, and all my
notes are true. sing the Bel Caro-
method. When I strike high G it is the
real note, not a fake squeak. You ask
Lesley Martin, who taught me. am
a Bel Canto singer"
OF course, as long as Miss Weeks |
Is a Bel Canto singer that settles it.
What more can be said?
About this time Ada May Weeks
,alled at her sisters dressing room.
Ada May is one year younger than
Marion, but she Is taller and huskier.
She has short curly hair. and il bobs
nerrily' every time she shakes her
read She Is always shaking her head |
This young Miss first attracted the
ttention OF metropolitan theatre
'oers in that gone-but-not-forgo
fair entitled Come TO Bohemia
With her partner Fred Nice. she was -
he one bright spot in a desolate land
cape. :
When Come TO Bohemia went to a
lr. Canes well known warehouse. 1t
~ Miss Weeks without a job. Then
was that Flo Ziegfed, that great "
uthority on What Makes the World !"
o Round. stepped into the breach q,
nd engaged Miss Weeks to disport on n,
is roof
Miss Weeks dances sort Of eccen- Bl
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS figure, with the
nphasis on the figure. That is 10
y, on Miss Weeks's figure. for she V
Is a splendid supple body. full of en-
81 and rhythm. In the course Of =
pr speciality she dances while in A NJ
ting posture, most extraordinary a
hlbition. No matter what she does. :
r eyes are always dancing with her X
dy. her face is always smiling. and
r whole being pulsates with life. IL EV
TINS magnetism which she exudes -
at has set her apart az her early age TT
a dancer of promise.
Il think the reason people like me is a
cause I'm .teslly toe dancer" said f.
SIS Weeks Ada May. You see. =
&c had classical training a. the Met- VI"