El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-24
COMPANY
PROVES POPULAR
Rotarians Present Mon
tague People in a Classy
Musical Program.

Rotarians were given a wonderful
demonstration OF mental concentra-
ton and the science OF memorizing at
the Thursday luncheon when William
Buckner told them their names. their
business cIassificatIons. the color Of
their wives eyes and everything else
but the date the war would end.
Friday night Rotarians, their wives
and friends were given another
equally wonderful demonstration OF
the power Of concentration when two
men and two women composing the
Montague Light opera company con
CentraLed their collective efforts and
pooled their unusual talents to give
Rotary and FL PasO one Of the most
pleasurable evenings entertainment
since David BIshpam sang Danny
Deaver' and Maud Powell playeI
The HumOresque" on her magic
fiddle
Miss Montague. Miss Reynolds, Mr..
Thomas and Mr.. Eichenberger, who
composed the COMPANY are all indl-
Yidual artists Mr. Thomas looks IS
grand as a head waiter and plays the
plano like Francis Moore. He also
sings bass with a subCeller effect.
which was both musical and melodi-
Gus. While he was resting. he made
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made the audience his friend from the
kick of.
A Dainty PrIma Donna.
Miss Montague is as dainty as a
Dresden doll, with wonderful men
tai equipment. a mellow coutrlIto
voice like q meadow lark and with
no more affeCtation than this honey
bird OF the autumn fields. Her sing
ing, reading and playing were all
equally well done, Miss AIonta que be
ing one Of the raTN types who does
everything she does unusually well
Miss Reynolds showed excellent dra-
matte talent in the japanese operatta
which closed the program and much
cleverness in the lighter churninE
song from Robin Hood. She sang
without effort. her high tones were
true and her stage presence pleasing
Mr. Eichenberger made up in clever
character sketching and mimicry
what he lacked in stage presence and
sang IN a clear. spontaneous tenor
A Varied Rendition.
The program was suffici emily varied
to please everyone and eYeryOne-Who
were none too many for such an IN
usual attraction-Was pleased. No
programs were distributed with ad-
vertisements for Italian restaurants
and auto garages. Instead, the mem
bers OF the little company made their
own announcements in a way which
brought the audience close TO them
from their first appearance, when Mr..
in his big bass fiddle voice.
said W. hope you are going 10 like
US as well as we like you" The mo-
ton carried unanimously. Another
little trick was to have a scene set
erected on the big, bare stage Of the
Texas Grand so the quartet OF enter
in the wood when they performed.
Program We'll balanced.
The program itself was we'll bal
auced and showed an excellent artis-
tic selection. The quartet sang 1T is
Maytime" and gave a lighter number
for an encore. NJ. Thomas sang a Sc
lection from the Persian Garden"
Of Omar Khayyau. his re
ally remarkable bass voice fitting the
song OF the desert like a sheik speak
ing TO his people He sang a laugly
song imitation Of the bass VOL for an
encore Miss Reynolds and Miss Mon
-ague sang duets and solos and the
crowd called for more. Nj Eichen-
berger sang Victor Herberts Italian
hand organ song and mimicked the
ways OF an italian organ grinder in a
way that caused Rotarians to throw
licllels 10 him from the audience
japanese Music for Close.
The evening closed with a potpourri
d Japanese music and acting, taken
from MADAM Butterfly. The MikadO
and other japanese operas 1t was
,leverly acted, Miss Reynolds as the
Japanese girl in love with the Ameri- Z
ian artist being especially well done. (
az was Nj. Thomas's comedy part OF
he lord high eXecuuoner- During the
ntermissiOn preceding the final num- I
Der Miss Montague gave a reading .
rom Maurice Maeterlinck's Blue I
Bird" excellently done. as were all Of F.
her numbers. The program closed J
with a verse OF America" by the com /
lany and audience.