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Show HIGH PRAISE GIVEN TO AMERICAN SINGER Lifetlo Missouri Girl Who Took Foreign Capitals by Storm Coining to This City. ' Felice Lvne, the little American girl, who took London bv storm in November, Novem-ber, 1911, will appear in concert at Assembly As-sembly ball Friday evening, March 1-, by special arrangement with her manager, man-ager, Henry Russell, and under the local lo-cal management of Fred C. Graham. This will 'be the greatest musical treat of the season, and music lovers of Salt Lake will be given the opportunity of hearing Felice Lync in her first concert in the west. Miss Lynn's career has been ;-o phenomenal and meteoric and she has been sought so constantly in London and foreign countries that this year has been her first opportunity to 'be heard othor than in her home state. Felice Lyne is often termed the American successor of AdeVina Patti. It was in i ' Kigoletto ' ' that Miss Lyne established herself in London, but the Loudon critics, far from proclaiming her Gilda the greatest of her- achievements, heaped still warmer praise upon her Lucia. hers Mimi. her L'osina and her ; Marguerite. Speaking of the last-men- ; tinned role, the London Standard said: "No artist within the memory of opera- 1 goers has met so fully the requirements of the part. ' ? The Mail declared: "She was different fro ill every other Marguerite Mar-guerite tha t ever was, and most be-witching;-'7 while the Daily Express termed her achievement "a Marguerite consistent with Goethe's conception.;' Referring to her Lucia. 'Vanity Fair said: "There have been great coloratura colora-tura sopranos; there still are great coloraturas and there?-- is Fciice Lyne. i I place Felice Lyne in a class by herself, her-self, because she is the first soprano I have ever heard who could make Donizetti Doni-zetti 's Lueia di Lammermoof live. ' ' ''A fresh harvest of laurels," the London Lon-don Daily Graphic declared Miss Lyne j 1 reaped on this occasion. Speaking of ; her Juliette, the Daily . Sketch said:; , "She took the house by storm time after time. Her Juliette will always be a precious memory.'' |