The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23
By DOLLY DALsYMPLE

to the world. and not as thing 10 Ds wholly operated as private mlnt. Aho woman who got up there amidst the flowers, with joy in her art smiles o" her motherly face and tears in her eses' to lead 10000 children in The star Srangled Banner had relatives, frlenos' loved ones, suffering. dying in Europe victims of war Long may she wave over America and Aferican hearts. She glorious!
 One of the prettiest tributes ever paid to Madame schumann- -Heink IS that which comes from the gracefui
 pen of Kate Douglas Wiggin, who said;
 "h surely must be wonderful to be schumann- Heink and to inspire sucn a tribute as this from the pen of so
 gifted an authoress and such q great I patron of music as Kate Douglas Wig
 gin. II was at the recent Maine music festival where Madame schumann- i Heink sang that Mrs. wiggin heard her. land the following day sent this appre-
 ciaton to one of the Portland papers, ! What a woman What a singer What
 an artist When she stood on the stage
 last night proclaimns her 5i years a" of them passed in singing. every human
 being in the audience loved and g!oIl- fled in her For myself. I could only look and listen and marvel al her sim ! plicity and her dignity. her pathos ana l her power at the matchless way in ixx-b bif.h. c1,a
 touches all springs of emotion above
 al I bethought me of the old New Eng
 land woman bred on an inland farm
 who first confronted with the Atlantic
 ocean gave one long sigh of delisht
 and content as she eNclaimed Well ! i'd
 glad for once to see something there's.
 enough of scnumann-lleink Is a royal
 giver of herself and She has an in-
 finity of rare and noble talents to give
 What other singer could interpret so
 magnificentIy the tragic Cry of Rachr
 As for The Lord Is Mindfu of |.
 Own, you sit spellbound in silent rev
 erence. til her singing mandate sBo"
 down before Him.. almost brings you
 10 your knees Affection admira iuh
 and applause were lavished upop bei
 last night and she deserved them all,
 as much by the richness of her bounty
 as the beauty of he rartr
 The locale of this little peep behind
 the scenes" was at the New York Hippo
 drome, where Schumann- Heink was the
 bright particular star of a big benefit concert Appearing on the same pro 1 ,ar : and the two were overheard remniscns
 about the good old days. Tt is just about 9 years ago that we first appeared together at Covent Garden opera in London and then at the Metropolitan, said Madame. Yes, indeed. responded the famous baritone, "and do you know that we are the only two of all our col' leagues that are still before the public?"
 Just think of that galaxy. which included } Nordica, Flames, the De Bezkes, Placon, Schumann- -Heink and Bispham-and onls } these last two have weathered the vicissi- 5 tudes of time and fate. How interesting, |. thought the caves-dropping scribe, and , what a lesson to the younger generation n of vocalists is the beauty of Schumann 2 Heink' $ voice after more than % years = of constant usage and the charm of her . art which seems to grow more potent . with the years.
 | Truly when Madame Schumann-Hena | makes her bow to a Birmingham audi n ence once more, as she will do here on
 the last evening of January, 1921, she will d meet with the cordial reception and ths r unstinted admiration which has char. a acterized her every appearance here, and n will continue so do as long as the great it pr:ma donna favors us with her presence. e have a hard enough struggle tos ges IS along, but the whimsical attitude or Mlss h Ferber presents them in such light V that the reader remembers only the hap n pier aspects.