Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1916 — FIRST NUMBER OF LYCEUM THURSDAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRST NUMBER OF LYCEUM THURSDAY

Opening Number of Lyceum Course Will Be Held Thursday Evening November 16th. *

.tHI IRIS CONCERT COMPANY. The Iris Concert Company Is composed of Miss Laura M. Magill, reader; Mias Louise Beaman, contralto soloist and Mias Lula-Schneldt, pianist and accompanist. Their program takes the form o t a recital, and It la a rscltal well worth while. Miss Beaman toured with this organisation In tbs Eastern States and sang with great success In “Faust’’ “Carmen, ’’ “II Trovatore.” “Tales pf Hoffman,” “Butterfly” and “Lncla.” A successful appearance was made by this singer last winter at the Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, as a member of the Shubert Quartet With the Wagner Concert Company ah# was featured as soloist, singing “Adriano,” aria from “Rlensl.” with Symphony Orchestral accompaniment, In Brooklyn. Since coming to Chicago Miss Beaman baa sung at the South Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago Woman's Club, Quadrangle Club of the University of Chicago and many private receptions. Critics are united in praise of her work and readily recommend her as a reliable artist and capable soloist for concert, opera, church or oratorio. She possesses a dramatic contralto voice extensive In range and of rich sympathetic quality. Miss Beaman for two yeftrs was soloist at St. Paul’s Church of Brooklyn and was afterward, engaged to sing In the Church of the

Puritans, Fifth Avenue, New York, a position she resigned to accept a contract with the Aborn Opera Company. Miss Lula-Schneidt, pianist and accompanist, was educated in Europe and shows the results of her work of long and excellent training. Last season sfie appeared with the Bohemian Orchestra over the Redpath five day Chautauqua circuit, beginning in Mississippi and ending In Illinois. On this program she played a solo each day, in addition to her work with the orchestra. Concerning Miss Magill, Florence L. McCracken, department of platform reading, Columbia College of Expression, Chicago, says: “Mias Laura Magill is a reader of unusual ability, having a beautiful, well modulated voice myi a charming personality. Her dramatic Interpretations are vital and ring true. Her humor Is delightfully clever.” Ella Wilson Smith, department of contemporaneous drama, Columbia College of Expression, Chicago, has the following to say: “Miss Laura Magill is a mider of unusual ability and charm K bas so winsome a personality :■ » gracious a planner that she is <“i ort with her audiences the mono -he comes before them. Her keev <* of humor, her fine dls criminal ion o characterization, her art In visualizing her scenes and her exceptional emotional power enable her to carry ber hearers with her through every shade of feeling that she experiences In interpreting the varied selections in her repertoire. To hear Mias Magill Is to capitulate to her art and charm.”

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