The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-07-15

EOPLE expected great things OF
Aline Davis,
Il And Well they might? She
had grown steadily from pre-
cocious, unusually gifted child into
the most brilliant girl in her high
school and college classes, delivering
the valedictory each time she gradu-
ated and generally rated by faculties
as a girl with marked future
Then what did she turn around and
do, with all her accomplishments of
language, laboratory science and dra-
MATES to choose from, but develop a
voice!
Verify. the gods had smiled upon
Aline. AS her friends put it "a little
wistfully perhaps), Aline had every
thing. Youth. Culture. Beauty. In
tellect. Varied talents and now a
voice. To say nothing of the fact
that the son of one of the foremost
bankers of Buffalo, n. Y, wanted to
marry her.
She made her selection brilliantly,
as she did everything, throwing every
thing over. including the son of the
Buffalo banker, to follow the career
of singer.
1t meant struggle. Aline was not
blessed in worldly goods, but scholar
ships were forever showering her path
and ii was made possible, what with
the patronage of philanthropic wom-
in, a cnhpl
arship offered by her university, for
her to take up the study of voice and
harmony with two of the most infiu-
entail teachers in New York
With her usual ability for doing
whatever she did outstandingly well,
in her third year of tutelage she at
tracted the attention of famous i'm
presario who arranged her an addition
with the opera.
She came through it with flying col
Ors and the offer of contract to sing
minor roles with the greatest opera
organization in the world.
"Of course. told you sol" said all
of Aline's friends. But still it was a
lltliN W " hdNC iiCi VAIN
into one honor after another, as cas-
ualy as if contract to sing in opera
were not the mecca of girls from al
most every corner of the globe.
Aline continued her studies and
made superbly good in her opera work
that first year. So good that at the
beginning of the second she was IN
derstudying the famous Donna Bella.
Critics and teachers predicted a
magnificent future for her. The star
of her destiny seemed never to flicker
in its steady light. And it must be
said of Aline that she did not depend
upon destiny to keep that star lighted
She was an indefatigable worker.
A painstaking student A musician at
heart and at soul.
1t was when her star seemed so sure
and so true and so almost inevitable,
that Aline met KrOnald Blau.
Blau was a young Swiss fellow. only
ten years in America, and engaged in
laboratory work at the Rockefeller
foundation. A student. A scientist
devoted to research. His work was
the study of the loathsome disease
leprosy. Blau was said already TO
have made some distinguished contri-
buttons to the alienation of that foul
disease and was hopefully working to-
ward the solution of making it 100 per
cent durable.
Of hacf- OrOnnh Snarcp-
ly fellow with the type of mind cal
culated to capture the interest of a
beautiful and promising young opera
singer, on the verge of her big sue
cess. Bau himself was unprepOsses-
sing enough. tow-haired young fell
low with thoughtful face and kind
eyes magnified by high-power spec
tacles. A student in aspect and man
ner. A student by temperament and
equipment.
Aline met him by chance at the
home of a doctor friend.
1t was a matter of love at first
sight. 7.
1t was remarked by those present
that, from the moment she entered the
room, Blau never took eyes off of her,
and after they met it was all Aline
could do to keep her own gaze from
boring back against his.
Aline always said of herself that
she did the wooing. In any event it
is doubtful if young Blau would ever
have had the courage to follow up
this first meeting with the brilliant
young singer.
Aline saw to that. Aline saw to II
that the physician friend arranged
another meeting.
To the stupefactiOn of all concerned.
they were married two weeks later
For six months after that Aline went
on with her singing, and practically
a miracle happened.
From a lovely-voiced soprano of
quite unusual range and clarity that
young voice took on even another di
mension. 1t became a warm and glow