Show un LEfT T TYPEWRITER i fYS WYSE I fOR VAUDEVILLE E E E From stenographer to operatic whistler whistler whistler whis whis- and bird Imitator is a a. step seldom taken but that Is Just lust what Helen Adair who is appearing at the Orpheum Orpheum Orpheum Or Or- this week did She is an Omaha Omaha girl irl and this week Is her initial appearance on the sta stage e having resigned an excellent stenographic stenographic stenographic steno steno- graphic position in Omaha to fill this en engagement Miss Miss Adair has always been gifted with whistling ability and in her girlhood girlhood girl girl- irl- irl hood was frequently blamed for the whistling of pet mocking birds and English linnets which were were kept inca in ca cages cages es at the Adair home homo Oh Helen do stop your whistling her mother would exclaim In fact it was utterly impossible to determine which was the bird and which wasn't so closely could Miss foist Helen imitate them It is these W gifts ts of hers which gained her a place immediately immediately immediately imme imme- she had been given iven a try out several weeks ago in Chicago Although she has has' hasa nas a thorough h musical education her specialty is whistling She does it through h her teeth by a muscular throbbing of the throat She does not confine herself to bird imitations imitations imitations imi imi- but whistles selections from the tho best known operas She can produce the sweetest flute tone and can do solo work with an accompaniment of a full orchestra This art of hers she acquired without instruction and learned most of f it in imitating bir birds s while visiting on her fathers father's ranch in Idaho It is a bit trying on the the- throat she said If I whistle for an hour or more spore I can s scarcely arcely speak for hoarse hoarse- ness I have four styles of whistling though through h the teeth with muscular muscular muscular lar throat exertion is most effective for quality and tone range and amplitude amplitude tude of expression |