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Show MAY PETERSON TO TOUR SdUTH ACAINCZJ . -V I ' ' - " i. t . Miss May Potorson tho always popular prima donna of tho Metropolitan Metro-politan Opera company and concert star spent last summer in tho woods of Malno preparing her programs .for tho coming season which promises prom-ises to bo tho busiest that this famous fam-ous artist has ever had In America. Miss Peterson has Just boon reengaged re-engaged for her fourth consecutlvo season at tho Metropolitan Opera company in Now York City, which In Itself Is a most glowing trlbuto to tho high artistic standing of this artist and a posltlvo indication of tho esteem in which Bho Is held by tho drcctors of tho greatest' opera company In tho world. During tho coming season Bho will appear in flvo leading operatic roles including Lakmo, Mlml, Vlolotta, Michaels and Manon, In which roles sho appeared moro than fifty times at tho Opera Comlquo in Paris whero sho scored to' greatest sensation of any American Ameri-can artist sinco tho debut of Mary Garden. I Her concert tour which has been very heavily booked will tako her from coast to coast and will Include sovontoen rcengagoments on tho Pa clflc Coast during th month of Fcr ruary. Sho will also mako a tour of tho south including tho South Atlantic At-lantic states, wbero sho has alwayi been an enormous favorlto, and her i regular tour of Texas, Oklahoui and tho south whoro sho appcari-d Willi marked regularity ovory soi- son Bineo her roturn to AmcrKi, ' New York, Boston, Pittsburg and all thorlnoIpnl cities of tho East will ! I Io lmvo nn opportunity of hearing tho groat American prima donna h concert during tho coming reason. May Foaersnn bognn her musical career ns a Blnger and orgnnlst In tv llttlo church Oshknih. Wisconsin.' Wiscon-sin.' where her father was a Methodist Meth-odist minister. To struggle, to pain a first class musical education was a serious ono and beset with many hardships and difficulties but with' grim determination sho stuck to It, discouraging as it may havo been at aimes, unUl today sho is recognized as ono of tho most popular concert stnrs beforo the. music loving public Sho won the battlo for supremacy by her own individual efforts and Is a i striking oxnmplo of what American grit and determination can accomplish. accom-plish. Sho Is a credit to herself, to her art and her country; nn artist to whoso fair namo no breath of scandal scan-dal litis over been attached. Miss Peterson will appear at tho Logan Tabernacle Monday, Janu ary 24. . in |