| Show I 1 EDISON PROGRAM DRAWS PACKED HOUSE I 1 the recital in the high school auditorium tuesday evening by the edison I 1 artists mine aime le fontenay an and mr charles young was aas listened to by an audience that packed the building the recital was waa a demonstration on of the recreation powers of 0 the edison phonograph and was managed by the hansen furniture and music co mine le fontenay sang a number of songs standing beside the edison machine which reproduced the same song and she would pause at intervals permit permitting tinZ ithac the machine to continue in orde that the audience might judge as tt tc I 1 the faithful recreation of the voice the machine cannot produce th ill same volume of tone as the singer sc s she naturally had to hold in consid I 1 drably but it was a remarkable dern dem castration for when singer and ma chine were both performing the tonal effects mere ere very much tile the same it was possible to detect without look lug ing when the singer was with the machine and when she was pausing mr air young who is a violinist of asplen did attainments played selections that were reproduced at the sam time by the phonograph and it wat wae more difficult to detect when he played and when he paused the audience it if expressions at the close were any criterion to judge by was disappointed in not being lebed to hear bear mate le fontenay and mr young perform under full pros pres sure for they are artists possessing rare talents as was evidenced as soon as they began to sing and play the party of artists is making a tour of the country as an advertising feature for the edison phonograph and they are doing the job moet moat artistically and thoroughly |
