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Show The Life of af " I ConceitfiStar I Appearing here next Wednesday In concert Is Miss Emma Lucy Gates, Utah's pride In the world of song. Wo know of such hs sho 'only n tho concerts and operas which we attend. It may bo of Interest, then, to the readers of The Republican to know something of the little trials and amusing experiencesrwhlcli theao people peo-ple meet In their dally work. The Deseret News sometime ago published publish-ed a letter which they had' received from Miss Gates white 'nho Was in Europe, to which they gave the' title "Life of a Concert Star." We select a few of tho most interesting paragraphs para-graphs from this letter and glvo them to our readers. Her Debut In Frencn This was my first visit to Belgium, and tho Arst tlmo that 1 sang to h French audience. To nlng French songs and nrlas In America, England and Germany, 's not like singing them in their own country. I was to know nowwhother or not my four years study In French in New York vould stand the test. Again I was disappointed disap-pointed over my rehearsal. I bad bn-come bn-come qulto used to rehearshlng tho mornlngof tho concerts although at Arst It was not easy, but this rehears- Ml lng In the afternoon.! did not rnjoy. MB I must confessthat, utl tho concerts ffl I had sung in, nonovwan so important II to me as this, For I,,wad ulnglng in M the Ostende, tho great, where Caru- i so, Totrazzlnl, Hemple, and others H had sung, and I waa singing In French IB I can assure you that I waa most Rl nervooa at this rehearsal, which, waa Ufl hurried through by a director who WM had. conducted.' for ten years. I had wM not onty him and1 his orchestra to Vfl win over, bat the manager who had jM engaged me solely, oa my German press notices, and who had nevor be- ilafl fore heard making, Juat as we start- W ed out tho director said, "Are you go- ilai ing to sing It In 'French or German?" IH "I am going to try It' hero at tho re- jfl hearsal In French," 1 said "and It It H Is not suitable I can do It tonight In j H German." Fortunately It 'suited him PS and ono of the, critics of tho concert ( M Bald, "Miss Lucy Gates, from Ger- M many with an English name, singing ! in French, what nationality Is she?" He did not suspect 'that I was an j H American. H After the concert my cousin and I n H were presented to this one from H M Russia, that one from Hungary.and H III Mr. Gregory and wife of the Royal ffl Opera of Vienna also addressed us. Hfl |