The Katharine Carroll Smith Concert Company: "A Notable Company of Artists"

              The Katharine Carroll Smith Concert Company

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A Notable Company of Artists
MANAGEMENT



Katharine Carroll Smith Concert Company

Announcement
THE DEMAND for that which is novel, entertaining, and yet high-class, has been rapidly increasing in the Lyceum and Concert world, and to supply this demand has been one of the chief aims of the management of this company.  In presenting same, we do so with every confidence that the efforts of each member of the organization will be appreciated by all lovers of the artistic and beautiful.  The several ladies composing the company excel in their special lines and their combined work makes a delightful evening's entertainment.

KATHARINE CARROLL SMITH, a reader and impersonator, who in her line, ranks with the best.  She is most versatile, her clever juvenile impersonations, character sketches, and her work in different dialects, having won her that reputation.  As an Irish dialect reader she has few if any superiors.  Irish by birth, the delicious brogue is hers by birthright, and her Irish folk lore stories and ballads given in costume with the delightful brogue and the inimitable nod and look, as only the Irish can give it, shows her to be a close student of the characters she seeks to portray.  Her art is the art of genius that has not evaded work—strong and conscientious.  Quaintly original and a pleasing manner, her work, whether grave or gay, always rings true.  Her novel and picturesque method of costuming lends a charm to her work that is most effective.


The first number in the popular lecture course which was given at the high school last Thursday night pleased a good audience.  The entertainment is spoken of highly by everyone.  Katharine Carroll Smith in her readings, costume sketches and dialect stories is superb.—
Spring Green News.


The Katharine Carroll Smith Concert Co. appeared here Wednesday evening, according to schedule.  The pleasing program rendered proved each member of the company to be an artist in her line—
Black Earth Times.


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The concert Saturday evening by the Katharine Carroll Smith Co. was well attended and was excellent.  The talent pleased the audience greatly.—
Grant County Democrat.


The first number of the high school lecture course, the Katharine Carroll Smith Concert Co. was given at the Opera House last evening and, the best ever is the verdict of all who heard them.  Each of the ladies excelled in her especial line, but the favorite with the large audience was Miss Smith.  Her Irish dialect and character sketches were of the style that pleased and she never failed to draw a good round of applause every time she appeared.—
Kickapoo Scout, Soldiers' Grove, Dec. 2, '09.


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Miss Katharine Carroll Smith filled a few days' engagement at the Lake Chetek Chautauqua to the entire satisfaction and pleasure of the management and patrons.  Miss Smith is clever in impersonations, excelling particularly in character sketch, in costume.

Respectfully yours, L. P. CHARLES, Secretary.  July 8, 1909.



Another of many Committee Reports from the Rewey Lecture Course.
The first number given by the Katharine C. Smith Co. was all that we expected and more to.  The audience went away smiling all over with the pleasure which had not yet subsided in their hearts.  Miss Smith in her Irish and child selections was a revelation to the people here of what they have been missing in the matter of talent.  If Miss Smith should return to give us another number, we would not have room for the people who would buy tickets to hear her.


Miss Katharine Carroll Smith has gained the universal encomiums of the press wherever she has been, and-is called one of the best attractions as impersonator and reader with dialect character sketches in the west.  Irish by birth, her delightful sketches are inimitable, and in that line she is without a peer on the platform today.—
Anderson, (Ind.) News.

The Katherine Carroll Smith Concert Company has just completed a series of lecture course engagements under the management of the writer.  Without exception all reports upon the work of the Company have been very gratifying.  In many instances special mention has been made of the work of Miss Smith, impersonator and reader, and I gladly bear testimony to the artistic and finished character of Miss Smith's work and her success as a popular entertainer.

I have no hesitancy in commending her to the consideration of discriminating committees and managers.

GEORGE W. RANKIN, Fort Atkinson, Wis.




Martha Isabel Jungermann Violin Virtuoso

An Artist with Artistic Conception and Artistic Execution

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As a violin virtuoso Mrs. Jungermann is a splendid success—executing the most difficult numbers with grace and skill truly remarkable.

R. E. SMITH, Pres. Ruskin College, Ruskin, Tenn.

Mrs. Jungermann is unquestionably a violin artist of rare interpretive power.  Her skill on this instrument displays masterful technique—but this is lost sight of when the soul of the player is revealed, through the unusual handling of her instrument.  She would please the most critical audience.

FLORENCE B. OGG, Principal Department Expression, Ruskin College, Ruskin, Tenn.

A beautiful woman and a violin make a rare combination, and when the woman is artistic to her finger-tips and the violin has the soul of one of the masterpieces that came out of Cremona centuries ago, then surely these are delightful moments to be looked forward to.

Miss Mattie Belle Jungermannn is master of the king of instruments, perhaps, or a woman suffragist,—I should say mistress,—but master is a stronger term here and means more.  She has mastered the violin, as one who loves the instrument, and loves the stories it tells.  Her technique is unusual in a woman player, but it is the emotion, the expression she puts into all her work that using her musical auditor and captures all who hear her.  Miss Jungerman brings from her instrument those velvet tones that are so seldom heard—that sound like a great contralto singing a masterpiece.  She is the Maud Powell of the Lyceum ond a rare pleasure awaits the audience who shall hear Mrs. Jungerman as one of the members of the Katharine Carroll Smith Co.

LOU J. BEAUCHAMP.

Mattie Belle Jungermann is a violinist of more than ordinary ability.  We have heard and know.

LYCEUM WORLD.

I have had the pleasure of hearing Mrs.  Mattie Jungerman under selections upon the king of instruments, the violin.  Everyone in the audience, myself included, was enthusiastic and enraptured.  She is a beautiful young lady and the grace with which she extracts those liquid notes is music in motion.  For the time she had me hypnotized, transported from this world of care; I was reveling among the angels in celestial spheres.  Hear her by all means, hear her.

Most cordially,
(Signed) FRANK ALLEN PEAKE, Lecturer, Entertainer and Chautauqua Mgr.



One cannot listen to Mrs. Jungerman without realizing that a master-hand holds the instrument and that the soul as well as the hand is making the music.  Whether soft plaintive sounds, quick lively tunes or classic etudes, she holds the rapt attention of her audience.  She is bound to be heard from within a short time.—
THE LYCEUM WORLD.



A FEW PERSONAL COMMENTS:

I take pleasure in recommending Mrs. Jungerman to any one desiring her services as violinist.  Mrs. Jungerman has been an industrious, conscientious and intelligent student under the best teachers in Cincinnati, and is not only thoroughly artistic, but painstaking in her work.  Coupled with her musical ability, she has a winning personality to which can be attributed much of her success as a violinist—(Signed) MRS. SAMUAL D. FITTON, Hamilton, Ohio.

Mrs. Jungerman is not only a young woman of much refinement of nature and charm of person, but is a musician of unusual talent and considerable experience.  She appears very frequently in towns and nearby cities, and I have no hesitancy in recommending her to any one desiring a violinist, whose work, while highly artistic, is versatile enough to please any audience.  We feel that her success is assured in the lyceum fi ld.

(Signed) W. T. TOBEY, Editor Republican News, Hamilton, O.



PRESS COMMENTS.

Mrs. Jungerman as violinist, needs no introduction.  Her name alone on a program always draws a large house.
Hamilton, Ohio, “REPUBLICAN NEWS.”


Miss Mattie Belle Ross (Mrs. Jungerman), of Hamilton, Ohio, is a leader in the musical circles of that city and is a violinist of marked ability.
Cincinnati, Ohio, “EVENING POST.”


Miss Ross (Mrs. Jungerman) was greeted in her initial number by rounds of applause which bespoke the pleasure and confidence of her auditors, nor were their expectations disappointed, for she threw over the vast throng that subtle spel of enchantment which only the hand of a real master can evoke from the strings of a violin.
Grenada, Miss., “SENTINEL”

There are plenty of women violinists, but not too many good ones for lyceum work.  It is only after one has heard many attempts to play that marvellous instrument and then listens to a masterpiece executed by one who has caught the spirit of the piece, and knows how to make it speak from the strings, that we can recognize the artist from the mere fiddler.

Mrs. Jungerman received her musical education at the college of music in Cincinnati, and has had marked success as a violinist for several years past.  She has applied herself with thoroughness to the study of her art, and matters technical difficulties with ease and taste.  She shows discretion in the numbers she selects to play before different audiences, and seems to know intuitively how to please the people.  She has a charming personality, is cultured and of irreproachable character, and I unhesitatingly commend her to any one wishing to secure her services as a violinist.

(Signed) S. M. SCHELL, M. D., Hamilton, Ohio.




Miss Emma Abbott

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Comes to the lyceum platform with a voice and musical ability that is sure to win the hearts of her listeners, for she is possessed of a voice full of sweetness and that sympathetic quality that never fails to charm.  A pleasing stage presence adds a charm to her work.  She is worthy of the prestige she has attained as a kin and namesake of the well-known grand opera star, Emma Abbott, of London.  A musician that cannot fail to be an acquisition to any Company or organization of which she is a member.  She is always greeted with delight.

THE MANAGEMENT.



Press and Personal Endorsements:
Miss Emma Abbott possesses a voice of wonderful sweetness as well as power, and sang with ease and perfect breath control.

LOUISBURG, KANSAS.


A large crowd greeted the—Concert Co. in the Methodist Church last night and the audience will long remember the sweet, clear voice of the first soprano, Miss Abbott.
NEODESHA, NEWS, KANS.

Miss Emma Abbott, niece of the late Emma Abbott, celebrated in America as the pioneer in English opera, was the first soloist on the programme.  She has a very sweet, sympathetic voice, and is possessed of a pleasing stage presence, a graceful style and a pronounced musical temperament.

HELEN GLENNEY, Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.


A finer soprano than Miss Emma Abbott, has never been heard in Chadron and her singing of the Carnival by Molloy will not soon be forgotten.
CHADRON, NEB.


Miss Abbott possesses a voice of beautiful quality and velvety smoothness and it was a real pleasure to hear her sing the old English ballad, I've been roaming.
ST. JOHN'S OBSERVER, Milwaukee.

Miss Abbott has a beautifully trained soprano voice and is also a pianist of much ability, her beautiful sympathetic touch and perfect execution adding much to the programme.

DR. ELMER HAYNES, Head Lecture Course, Lewis, Kansas.


The singing of Miss Abbott was particularly fine, and the ease with which she rendered the difficult selections, won the admiration of the audience.
ALTA, IOWA, NEWS.


Miss Abbott, while young in experience before the public is fast becoming recognized as the possessor of a beautiful soprano voice with a wide range combining both sweetness and dramatic power.
MILWAUKEE EVENING WISCONSIN