Show I V Schumann Schumann-Heink I 4 I 2 i. i 2 i i f 1 J I Z i t S i tf I t rt f I t i t 1 t I t I I vS v'S j I 1 m i A 11 I 1 v f 1 oo Ji i k tS I Tit Coming to Tabernacle February ii 11 Wherever there is hospital disabled veterans an American legion post or ora ora ora a branch of any of the several army and navy organizations that grew out of the World war there is loved and revered Mme Ernestine Schumann- Schumann Heink Strangely enough the uninformed uninformed formed public sometimes set her down as a a. German but the doughboys doughboys dough dough- boys and the gobs know her for the intensely patriotic American that she is is The great contralto Is one of the civilian war workers who wio has not forgotten forgotten for for- gotten the extravagant promises made to these boys when they went vent to the I front what happened to many of them I over there nor what has happened to them since they were werf brought back Crippled and hopelessly maimed soldIers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers and sailors receiving all the tho care the government can call give them have lacked those compensating comforts com corn forts that only s sympathetic interest can give give It has been her unceasing efforts to supply in so 50 far as her ner talents permit these comforts that have won for Mme l Schumann Schumann-Heink the affectionate name of Mother l not only all over the United States but also wherever her concert tours have taken her Do you jou ou never tire Ure Doesn't your voice ever give out she was asked recently when then of an afternoon before an aji exacting concert program she appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap at one of the many army hospitals hospitals hos boa to sing for my boys Oh no no no she exclaimed As long as I have any voice left to give them pleasure I will do it There Is nothing too much I can do for them Remember what they did for our country and for us She lives in California now having moved to that famous climate from Long Island but more than once she has traveled half way across the continent continent continent con con- at her own to keep a promise to sing at a veterans' veterans convention convention convention con con- or at an army amy or navy hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital or one of the many convalescent or rehabilitation institutions If there seems to be no time to do a a. thing like that she makes tho the t There is no applause she would rather hear than that which comes from army cOi cots Her r present concert tour which brings her to the Tabernacle on or February February February Feb Feb- 11 U. ii is dotted all aU the way with appointments she has made herself and some that will be surprise visits to sing Bing for the wounded and the sick These occasions have none of the formality formality formality for for- mality of the concert stage either If it such a thing as formality can be imagined imagined imagined im im- im- im In connection with the big bighearted bighearted bighearted hearted favorite of many opera companies com corn panics The Intimate talks with the patients the Jokes the swift sympathy sympathy thy and often the understanding tears e explain why she Is called I Mother Iother as much nuch as does her glorious glorious glori glori- ous voice now at the height of j Its Us power and beauty in spite of her silI allI all sll- I er yer crowned hair and her 62 years I |