The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
YODELING BRINGS WESTERN GIRL TO GREAT WHITE WAY
Actress Who Cheered Re- porters At Shelby, Now
 On Broadway
By HARLAN 6. MILLER (By Leased Wire To The Age-Hcrnld

NEW YORK, August s.-From Shelby, Mont, to Broadway is a far cry, but not too far for a good yoed- Ter.
 Yesterday Patricia Salmon was yodenng in the lonely places of the northwest. Tuesday afternoon she yodcled at the Ritz-Carlton. Tues day night she sat. simple, buckskin clad cinderella of the cattle country, in a box at MT. Ziegfeld's theatre, in focus of 5000, scaning the follies for good place to insert her yodel some time next week.
 Between shelby and Broadway is a chasm that not even a yodeler par excellence may bridge unaided. Pat ricia might have comveted with the coyotes for many a year had not his majesty, the powerful press, waved his magic lead pencil in revealing in cantations above her soft dimples. melting hazel eyes and insidious smile, and opened Broadway's eager ears for her art. It was the bored and homesick newspaper delegation at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby that brought Patricia to Broadway. It was the press that raised her pay from $50 to $500 a week. Flo Ziegfeld, ever eager to glorify the American girl, says he pays here that much to be glorified.
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 YodeIing Is Art.
 In the COW country yodeling is held a sort of foreign athletic exhibition, like throwing the javelin or eating spaghetti. On Broadway, yodeling Is an art; many have lived and died with the defiant conviction that Caruso was a yodeler. And Patricias vertiable gem of a made -in- America yodel was plucked right out of Shelby by band of journalists who are fine judges of the most delicate nuance of the yodel, who can distinguish the tyrolian from the dolomite article, and who can untangle the five types of yodels in the sextette from Luccia
 Patricia is pre- -eminently a yodeler, she explained Tuesday in her five room suite at the Ritz, although she also has essayed other roles with proven versatility. Only four feet high, eight inches tall, she could scarcely function as the impressive Lady Macbeth or Portia or even less as Brunhilde In opera; but she might have played MT Shakespeare's more ingenue roles, had her father been a Hamlet, or might have been sop rano, had he been Mccormick.
 Father Also Modelled.
 However. Patricia's daddy was a yodeler before and when Patsy began to show signs of the family talent. at the age of four months, sometimes doing her stuff all night through, daddy, who is resourceful Irish man, though he passes for a Swiss on occasion, carried her out on the stage and passed her off a yodeler too.
 As she grew older. Patricia went in for the drama in dead earnest, be- ginning at the age of four with the title role in The Unborn Child"
 Between acts she still continued to yodel as though her heart would break She was entrusted with more and more eXacting parts until she was playing leads in The Girl of the Golden West" Peg O My Heart" (Which One Shall Marry" and other tense dramas. But she never abandoned her yodeling, a popular curtain raiser with the rough and ready audiences, who sometimes punctuated it with re- volver shots-using blanks. of course. out of deference to the lady.
 It was a solace during intermis- sions, and it was this same yodel, ringing out through Shelby's somber atmosphere in the gloomy days dur ing the fights financial fiasco that intrigued the eauwof the scribes and brought her, like the heroines of scroes of her plays" to the palaces and fleshpots of Manhattan.