Rita Rich

              RITA RICH
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FOLK SONGS AND CHILD SONGS
IN COSTUME

A SLAYTON ATTRACTION




SCOTCH


FOLK SONGS appeal to everybody.  They are the good old songs that we all can understand and appreciate—those who have not made a study of music, as well as those who have.

Miss Rich sings them as only an artist can.  She has a great fund of vivacity and good humor, and yet a vein of deep feeling runs through her nature, and a sympathy that brings her close to her audience.  She has made a thorough study of the songs of the people—the songs of love, war, peace, work, and play—the songs that touch the heart.  Those good old ballads of our forefathers which contain the character music of the different countries which they represent.

Miss Rich is gifted with a power of dialect, an animated face, delightful manner, and a sweet, clear soprano voice, which she uses with great, good taste and judgment.

To hear and see her in her Folk Songs, which she costumes appropriately, will take the older people back to their youth, and give the younger people a glimpse of the true sentiment of bygone days.

Then, too, Miss Rich has spent much time in securing typical Child Songs which she presents in child costume and child impersonating with a fidelity startling in its realism.  She also appears in regular concert numbers.



Press Comments

Rita Rich won great applause with her singing and impersonating.  She is gifted with a delightful personality, and always wins her way to the hearts of her hearers.—
Ouk Leaves, Oak Park, Ill.


The Irish and Scotch songs of Rita Rich in costume were pleasing and instructive, and a treat to lovers of music.  Miss Rich is a very fine impersonator as well as a noted vocalist.—
Gulfport Daily Tribune, Gulfport, Miss.


ENGLISH



That charming artist, Rita Rich, sang Child Songs, in costume, and the audience was completely at her mercy.—
Hattiesburg Daily News, Hattiesburg, Miss.


Rita Rich had fairly won the audience the night before by singing English Folk Songs, so many went again last night to hear her in the Irish and Indian songs, which as usual, she sang in costume.  Miss Rich's interpretation is unusually fine, and her words when singing can be clearly understood, a thing too often neglected in singing.—
Hattiesburg Daily Progress, Hattiesburg, Miss.


Rita Rich is a big drawing card.  The big Chautauqua tent was filled with an interested crowd of people last night who again heard the charming Rita Rich.  In her costume songs she won her way straight to the hearts of her hearers, and her clear, bell-like voice was as charming as her personality.  Her many pleasing moods and fancies will be able to charm the dullest before she leaves us.  In these songs of the folk of various countries Miss Rich is without a peer and the costumes are exactly correct.  It is doubtful if anyone who misses hearing Miss Rich will ever have an opportunity to hear them so well rendered again.—
Hattiesburg Daily News, Hattiesburg, Miss.


The Child Songs of Rita Rich in costume were decidedly captivating.  She looked like a little girl, she talked like a little girl, she sang like a little girl, and no one would have thought that she was not a little girl.—
Daily Picayune, New Orleans, La.


Rita Rich gave concert songs tonight, varying her program somewhat from the costume songs which are her specialty.  All of Miss Rich's work has been characterized by an earnestness of purpose, a sympathy with her audience and a power to move them to laughter or to tears.  She draws pictures with her songs, then gradually recedes, leaving the beautiful pictures still in the minds of her hearers.  Tonight, perhaps more than ever before, she exhibited the range of her tones, the sweetness and power and expressiveness of her voice, which is a dramatic soprano.—
Daily Picayune, New Orleans, La.


It had been advertised that Rita Rich would give a full evening, and that brought the crowds on the interurban cars.  Miss Rich sang Irish and Scotch Folk Songs, in costume, and brought out a striking comparison between the

IRISH
 songs of the two countries.  Miss Rich's work is very novel, and is both entertaining and instructive.  She has a delightful personality as well as a round, full and rich voice.—
Daily Picayune, New Orleans, La.


Rita Rich was introduced to the Chautauqua last night, and made a most favorable impression from the moment of her first appearance on the stage.  She sang English Folk Songs, in the costume of an English maiden of some years ago.  Her songs will long be remembered by all those who heard them.—
Hattiesburg Daily Progress, Hattiesburg, Miss.



Programs
CONCERT


Three Green Bonnets

D'Hardelot


When the Heart is Young

Dudley Buck


The Dawn

D'Hardelot


Spring-Tide

Becker



SCOTCH



O Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad

Burns


Mary of Argyle

C. Jeffreys


The Hundred Pipers

Lady Nairne



ENGLISH



My Pretty Jane

Henry R. Bishop


Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

Ben Johnson


Twickenham Ferry

Theod. Marzials



IRISH



Rory O'Moore

Samuel Lover


The Minstrel Boy

Thomas Moore


The Low Backed Car

Samuel Lover



INDIAN



Invocation to the Sun God, Lover's Wooing, The Sunrise Call

Zuni Indians



CHILD



My Shadow

Hadley


In Winter I Get Up at Night

Nevin


Time to Rise

Reinecke




INDIAN






Rita Rich in English Folk Songs en costume was an instant favorite.—
Mobile Register, Mobile, Ala.


Rita Rich proved a hit at the Southern Chautauquas, where she spent several weeks in July.—
August Lyceumite and Talent.


Rita Rich made another most favorable impression last night in her Child Songs.  She was dressed in appropriate costume, and her songs were among the most pleasing she has rendered in the course of her engagement here, for they were numbers that could be appreciated by everybody.—
Hattiesburg Daily Progress, Hattiesburg, Miss.


Rita Rich's specialty is Child Songs and Folk Songs in costume.  Her Child Songs were an immense success.  She ran onto the stage as a dainty little girl and startled the audience by saying in a child-like way that she had been taken across the river that morning to see a pineapple plantation, and had gotten her face all sunburned.  The child songs give her no opportunity to show the power of her voice.  The Irish songs were fine, and her voice is wonderfully rich and full, and her costume very attractive.  She was especially good as an Indian maiden, and her explanatory talk with each one makes her songs very fascinating.  She is a great attraction.—
The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla.


Rita Rich and her costumed Child and Folk Songs were a huge hit at the Florida Chautauquas—she was enthusiastically received and pleased all hearers.  Miss Rich has one of those personalities that make people take notice.—
April Lyceumite.


Rita Rich makes a hit.  She is a most charming and entertaining singer of marked ability and presents a fine repertoire of Child Songs, and Folk Songs of all nations.  The Folk Songs are rendered in costume and give excellent opportunity for studying the different characteristics of the English, Irish, Scotch, and Indians.  Her sweet and cultured soprano voice has called forth no end of praise.  She is a natural artist in the line of singing and impersonating.—
Daily Gate City, Keokuk, Ia.


Rita Rich, of Chicago, with her splendid art as a vocalist, conveys to the audience the soul of the selection.  She readily harmonizes in dress and manner each nationality as she sings in English, Irish, Indian, and Scotch.  She always wins unceasing applause with her characteristic Child Songs.—
The Melbourne Times, Melbourne, Fla.


Rita Rich's songs were beautifully sung.  She was encored again and again.  It is hoped we will have an opportunity to hear her again soon.—
Register and Leader, Des Moines, Ia.


Rita Rich charmed a large audience with her excellent program.  She has a rich, well-trained voice and pleased the most critical.—
Daily News, Des Moines, Ia.


Rita Rich's singing, coupled with her personality, has captivated all hearts.  Her specialty is Child Songs, and Folk Songs of all countries, and she appears in costumes suitable to the songs and the countries they represent.—
The Windsor Gazette, Windsor, Ill.


The feature of the evening was the singing of Rita Rich, of Chicago, of Scotch Songs in costume.  Miss Rich's voice is full and deep and clear.  Her personality delightful, and her interpretation moves to tears and laughter.—
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.

Melbourne, Fla., April 8, 1907.

To Whom It May Concern:

It gives me great pleasure to say that Rita Rich, of Chicago, appeared on our program at the session just closed, and that her work was highly appreciated by the audiences as well as by the management.  Miss Rich has adopted a line of work which is not common, and consequently pleases as it is well done.  Her Folk Songs are very attractive as well as instructive, and her Child Songs always captured the audiences.  Managers can make no mistake in engaging Miss Rich for any of their assemblies.

[Signed] W. T. WELLS, Pres. East Coast Chautauqua Ass'n.


Rita Rich has a most beautiful voice, thoroughly cultivated, and has excellent control of it.  She contributed several numbers and was encored repeatedly.—
Keokuk (Ia.) Constitution-Democrat.


Rita Rich, the prominent soloist, delighted her hearers.—
Quincy (Ill.) Herald.


Rita Rich has a charming personality, and wonderful ability, both in her vocal selections and her impersonations.—
Shelbyville Daily Union, Shelbyville, Ill.


Rita Rich in Child Songs and Folk Songs is a great attraction.  Her work is admirably given and enthusiastically received.—
Shelby County Leader, Shelbyville, Ill.


Rita Rich charmed all those who were fortunate to hear her.—
Hattiesburg Daily News, Hattiesburg, Miss.

De Funiak Springs, Fla., April 6, 1907.

Rita Rich pleased the people of the Florida Chautauqua.  Her interpretation of Indian, English, and Irish Folk Songs is artistic and instructive, her voice sweet and sympathetic, her personality pleasant and and attractive.

[Signed] KENNETH BRUCE, Supt. The Florida Chautauqua


* * * But when Rita Rich appeared attired in an English maiden's costume of a half century ago, the audience quite lost themselves and seemed to forget that another feature of the program awaited them.  Miss Rich sang several songs and encores, but still the audience insisted upon more.—
Gulfport Daily Tribune, Gulfport, Miss.

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