The Jess Pugh Concert Company

              Jess Pugh & Company





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T
HE Jess Pugh Company is literally an all-star combination.  The two distinguished artists who, with Mr. Pugh, make up the trio, are both ladies who are widely known in the lyceum field, and already wear the crowns of public approval.  One of these is Miss Lathrop, the young soprano, to whom the musical world has already given a cordial welcome.  Beautiful, vivacious and thoroughly


Miss Katherine Kellogg

 charming with a voice of wonderful flute-like quality, Miss Lathrop easily takes rank with the most popular sopranos of the day.  Her appearance is all in her favor, so sweetly dignified is she in every pose, and added to this is a winning manner that always strikes a sympathetic chord in the hearts of her audiences, and makes them her enthusiastic partisans.  In this respect she is the Katherine Ridgeway of the musical world—a popular favorite, because she is in sympathetic touch with her auditors and works to please them.  Miss Lathrop is also a finished pianist and accompanist.




Miss Katherine Kellogg, the other member of this brilliant coterie, plays the violin as it is played by few women.  She
 produces not only a fine tone, but her execution of the difficult selections of her program are truly magnificent, and she handles her instrument like a virtuoso.  Miss Kellogg has won medals from the musical colleges which she has attended, and is young enough to attain the highest pinnacle in her art.  She attacks her work with certainty and a temperamental equipment which is the most praiseworthy attribute of her musicianship.  Everything she essays is rendered with professional ease and self-reliance.  At no stage of her performance is she betrayed into an immature classic style, but plays with the full round tone of a master, her bowing being correct and her interpretation musicial.




Miss Hazel Lathrop






The Jess Pugh Company



T
HE JESS PUGH COMPANY occupies a place apart from the majority of platform entertainments.  It has a phantasy, a magic, an enchantment all its own.  It is filled with the light of a new idea.  It is absorbing, dignified, refined and inspiring, presenting the best of music and the drama, and free from all unwholesome and false theatric atmosphere.  There are but three people in the company, yet so great is their versatility and so conspicuous their genius that the varied program they provide might easily represent the work of a dozen artists.  Mr. Jess Pugh, with his rare gifts, is an intellectual and artistic giant.  His clever impersonation of character, without the accessories of scenery and costume, is the quintessence of art, while it can truly be said that no singer who has come before the public in many a long day is more satisfying in his vocal renditions.  His magnificent voice, his purity of tone, his artistic taste and temperament have won for him some of the most sought for laurels in the lyceum field, and placed him in a leading position among our American baritones.




Especially does Mr. Pugh deserve praise as a dramatic reader, for therein his genius rises to heights seldom equalled on the platform.  He has broad literary culture, a wonderful voice and forensic ability of the highest type, while his remarkable intellectual and interpretive gifts give his readings a value far above those of the average elocutionist.  He is a born interpreter of the human soul as it is revealed in the great authors and dramatists As treated by him the stereotyped poem becomes new and beautiful, and an unfamiliar piece of poetry or prose a perfect revelation of meaning and force.  Mr. Pugh's recitals are marked by extraordinary force and a thorough appreciation of his subject.




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