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t-•r*er-Isr,ayo•sleenc-ito0LSatsleleLitQ-»nI,)-[.eys.1-eotr11oe“Girl With Beautiful Voice” Makes HearersForget Jumping Mercury Outside Theater.sor-enBY RICHARD HENRY LITTLE.l-een'srn1-ieinglessar-to-i orluglialLtesJediuler-dr.ue-iin-i'Ser-d*s e ii-arttheav-Wbat cared we, who, dripping withperspiration and pale and tremblingfrom the white hot heat of the loopyesterday, finally reached the dark, cool interior of the Majestic Theater. No matter if the quicksilver was leaping madly from the top of the thermometer and if the stones in the streets were melting like butter on hot buckwheat cakes.The Majestic was as delightful as the inside of an ice box, and besides there was Edna Munsey, “a Beautiful Girl with a Beautiful Voice.” to give• first aid to the injured. Edna was a wonderful help on a hot day. Outside in the street people puffed and panted and ran along with their tongues sticking out, gasping for air. Even if one liad managed to keep reasonably cool in spite of the heat wave it was enough to cause a sunstroke just to look around and see the other people.Audience Forgets Heat.But once you got inside the theater. especially if you arrived at the moment that dear little Edna was on the stage, all was so different. Edna was certainly a cooling draught. Edna was not red-faced and perspiring, nor did she puff like a cute young walrus and say: “Hnin’t this terrible—honest. this heat is just about killiii mo.”Ah. nay. nay. Far from such. Little Edna was cool and sweet as a big rose sparkling with dew in the back of the old garden just after sunrise on a May morning. One forgot all about the cruel heat in gazing atso that we can know what she is singing about and then we are going to like her so much that managers will pay her eighty-three thousand dollars a wteek without any layoff time at all.Marie Made to Dance.Next to Edna Munsey we like Marie Dressier. Of course the audience liked Marie, because there is nothing so much that an audience really enjoys as it is to see a real fat woman dancing and singing on an especially hot day. The Legislature killed the prize fight bill, and we can’t have bull fights like they do in Spain, and they won’t even allow us to have- a little rooster fight.But there’s a good deal of the savage left in a vaudeville audience, and they do love to see a fat lady dancing on a hot day. And they made Marie dance and dance and dance until finally the stage hands gathered her up in a bucket and poured her back into her dressing room.Milton Pollock and his company gave us George Ade's sketch, “Speaking to Father.” Milton and his company did their best, but it was too hot or something. because “Speaking to Father” lasted for about three minutes after the curtain went up and then it sneaked around back of the wings somewhere and died. It's probably a nice little play, too. but it couldn't stand the heat. It should be put in the list of heat fatalities of the day.Edna and listening to her gloriousvoung voice. And she has a voice, airisrillISirdris-utyod,be23,'Ulmeryoumt.am.real voice, with tones as sweet and true as you ever listened to. You could think of nothing but the birds singing in some cool- moss-grown, fe*n strewn wildwood when Edna sang.Not that I had the faintest ideawhat Edna was singing about. Ednacan sing, but she do not enunciate, she certainly do not. You can’t tell whether Edna is singing in French, Latin or Greek. No. it was not Eng-lish. I know English. It was not English, at least the English which is spoken in these here parts. It might have been Choctaw. I caught several sentences which I recognized as Choctaw. but it was not English.But who cared, not on a sweltering, accursed day like yesterday, anyhow. Edna was beautiful as a picture, her voice was beautiful, her clot lies were beautiful. She was sweet and calm and cool, and as panting, palpitating, parched human beings rushed in from the hot streets. Edna became as a toyrel full of cracked ice tied around their throbbing heads. But some day Edna, in addition to being beautiful and cool and inspiring and having a sweet, wonder-compelling voice, is going to learn how to divide the spoken language into words and syllablesg» ■lt; u ?! trim i i u! i. i lrin 111 il i n iifnri?k•Mmii.0kThe Sunsis the best way to go. It istheopen-wSunset Express aileave New Orleans daily for Los Ang roadbed—splendid equipment—Electservice best in the world.aouflW. G. NEIMY55 W. Jackson BoulevaTelephc
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Jun 17, 1913
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