The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Birmingham Lucky in Numbering Miss Lucille Roberts Dramatic Soprano and for Five Years Member of the
 Cincinnati Conservatory Faculty Among Her Musicians
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

NELDoM does it fall, to the lot of a N town to be so lucky as to number " among it's musicians one of the type and talent of Miss Lucille Roberts. the well known dramatic soprano. who for five years was member of the Gin cinnati Conservatory of Music faculty.
 Birmingham is to be congratulated upon her good luck in having by the mere5t accident the honor of including Mss Roberts in her list or musicians, for those wno have heard Miss Roberts sing full voize, her cultivation and her unusual talent.
 Miss Roberts suggests the drama .ic slnger-her magnificent physique, hes lovely face and her queenly bearing pro- claiming hef every inch the singer, while a few moments conversation with nor corroborates the fact by her mastery or the situation when it comes to knowl-. edge of, music, it's beauty and it's sgnif;- canoe.
 Miss Roberts is T southern girl, sher home beng Macon, Ga, and the far famed old Wesleyan college her alma mater. There Miss Roberts received her first nusioa. education and from this noted Institution she received her di- ploma.s Sire went almost immediately 70 Cincinnati, which is really her home certainly her home rnusically-for her most interesting experiences and her best wofx musica1ly were accomplished there and she reverts to the five years of her residence in Cincinnati as the vital musical epoch of her life.
 When I left Wesleyan college" Miss IlrHbn gci1 fe,r, ,l ,ey< rh.a,. she was chatting about the accident which brought her to Birmingham, I went to Cincinnati, where I entered the conservatory. l took up my studies at once wih John Hoffman, whom I regard as one of the most wonderful men I have ever known. MT. Hoffman has been con- nected with the conservatory in Cincip- natl for b years, and his usefulness ana his superior work have become more and more popular and more and more apprs- ciated every year instead of deteriorat- ing, as is ile case with so many teachers who remain for a great length of time m the sa'ae r!ace.
 MT. Hoffman is highly appreciated in Cincinnati,' said Miss Roberts, although he is not as widely known outside of his home city as other musicians. He has been instrumental in placing before the public many of the most cultivated singers Of he day. Emma Noe, who is with the Chicago Opera company, is one of his pupils; also Ruth Welch wao sang the roie of Princess Pat in New York few years ago. MT. Hoffman has that rare gift of song which enables h:nl to sing and teach at the same time. Per sonally, I could not learn anything from d teacher who couldn't sing a piece cf music for me as it should be sung. That
 is becanse I learn by imitation. I must have .,n example first Volumes might be told maS. but unicss It was demon strated to inF. l would be hopeless Aitd think :i,ert are many singers who arc of that typel
 tory Miss Roberts continued, 'l be. came a member of the faculty and b. sides ,l large class in the conservatory I also taught d still larger class outside I met and was associated during my res