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Show I The Simple Life Holds Lure If" FROM STAGE TO QUIET COUNTRY HOME Mrs. A. L. Burnham, left; Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillette Quiet Country Home in Utah Beckons Woman Opera Singer A quiet country home in Utah is a far cry from the opera Stage in New York City and the glamor of the old Salt Lake theater, but Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillette is happy in the former. Mrs. Gillette, who began her music career when she sang in the Salt Lake theater at the age of S, Saturday Satur-day looked back over an eventful life as she sat at the home of Mrs. A. L. Burnham Sr. of Bountiful "I've settled down now to the business busi-ness of living and want to stay right here all winter," she said. Mrs. Gillette is ths house guest of Mrs. Burnham, a distant relative by marriage. mar-riage. A granddaughter of Orson Pratt, L. D. 8. pioneer, Mrs. Gillette was singing In "The Bohemian Girl" here when she was 15. She raffled her horse and buggy and got funds to go to New York, where Maude Adams. Utah's own actress, gave her advice. In 1907 she was given a role in "Lohengrin" and from then on her career was a busy one. including a road tour In Victor Herbert operettas oper-ettas that included the Salt Lake theater. But if a country home has its lure, so does the stage. "Perhaps if 1 were offered the proper role I couldn't resist going back," Mrs. Gillette said. |