The Davualt Entertainment Company

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The Davault Entertainment Company

Annie Therese Davault, Entertainer
Hosford Plowe, Baritone
Joseph Gill, Violin
Marguerite Noble, Cello



The Davault Entertainment Company

Presenting Programs of
READINGS BY ANNIE THERESE DAVAULT
SKETCHES BY THE COMPANY
MUSIC, ENSEMBLE AND SOLO

MISS DAVAULT has proven herself to be one of the most popular readers upon the Lyceum and Chautauqua platforms.  A reader, who really lives her art, who loves life and mimicry, who can really see things and give them back to you so that you, too, can see them and love them,—this is Annie Davault.  Well schooled in her work, she still loves life with its comedies and its tragedies even more.  When you have heard her in those delightful negro sketches, which few can render well unless reared in the plantation atmosphere, you are ready to declare that dialect is her especial province.  But if, again, you hear her in dramatic selections requiring deep feeling and an artistic insight into character, you forget her lighter successes and you know that she is able to give the very best in dramatic art as it should be presented.

Miss Davault is supported by a company well fitted to reflect credit upon an organization of such quality.


HOSFORD PLOWE, Baritone


In the singing of Mr. Hosford Plowe, many points of fine vocalism are united.  Nature and the finest training have combined in producing a voice of seemingly limitless range, beautiful and charming quality and a flexibility in shading, varying at will from fortissimo to the faintest whisper.  A favorite in opera, oratorio, and recital, his selections comprise a varied list of the finest songs, dramatic, descriptive, sentimental and humorous.  His singing wins its way at once to the heart of the listener by a complete forgetfulness of self, a perfect execution of the beauty of the music and a dramatic expression of the poetic thought.


Mr. Plowe sang the part of Elijah in genuine basso style, scoring the success of the evening.  He sang with fine intonation and magnificent dramatic effect.—
Peoria Star.


Mr. Plowe has a remarkable voice, which in range and quality classes him among the best singers in the country.—
Pekin, Ill., Post Tribune.


Mr. Plowe as Arnheim sang Balfe's beautiful melodies in a legato style, absolutely free from the strained vocal effort so common nowadays.  In a cadenza-like ending of The Heart Bowed Down he displayed a range of over two octaves with complete ease.  He was obliged to repeat the last verse three times.—
Keokuk Gate City.


Special mention is due to Hosford Plowe, the Plunket of last night's performance.  He uses a big, well balanced voice with the ease and grace of a recital singer, utilizing every phrase for its full musical value.  His ensemble work in the second act was particularly good.—
Sioux Falls Press.


Too much cannot be said in praise of Miss Davault.  Readers, many readers and good readers have been here before, but there is something new about this one.—
Daily Free Press, Streator, Ill.


Annie Therese Davault is an accomplished artist, depicting various shades of expression, dialect and linguistic peculiarities and the various emotions with a naturalness and finish of treatment that proclaim her the artist which she is.  Her's is one of those rare natures that can reflect back life and character as it is and make you feel as though you were in the presence of the originals.  Miss Davault is unquestionably one of the most talented readers and character delineators of the day.—
Daily Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Ia.


Miss Davault certainly has been blessed with wonderful talent and possesses the ability to employ it to the best advantage.  A strong, even, well controlled voice, a good physique, a pleasing stage manner, a total forgetfulness of self (so seldom seen on the platform) coupled with an artistic and sympathetic temperament, makes it possible for Miss Davault to accomplish marvels.  She held her audience spell-bound and following each reading, a perfect storm of applause broke forth, showing the manner in which she captivated her listeners.—
The Times, Fostoria, Ohio.


MORE VARIETY MAY BE ADDED TO THE PROGRAM BY CHARACTER SKETCHES, IF DESIRED



JOSEPH GILL, Violin
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MARGUERITE NOBLE, Cello


Miss Marguerite Noble, cellist, formerly with the Fadette's Woman's Orchestra of Boston, is a pupil of Willi Boeck (now of Munich) and P. G. Anton, of St. Louis.  A beautiful girl, a pleasing personality, and a rare artistic execution, unite to make her an attraction of supreme charm to all cultured people.  She plays with a fine, resonance of tone and true musical feeling.  A bright future lies before her.

Master Joseph Gill, although but fifteen years of age, has had genuine artistic successes of which many an older musician might well be proud.  He made his debut as soloist in December 1908, with Mr. Alfred G. Robyn at the piano, playing DeBeriot's 7th Concerto, Musin's Caprice de Concert, and with his master, Mr. Lichtenstein, Bach's Double Concerto in D Minor.  Since that time he has appeared frequently as soloist and has been the regular second violinist in the Lichtenstein String Quartet for the past two seasons.


Master Gill, a young violin virtuoso, played a difficult program with the ease and polish of a veteran artist.  Purity of tone and solidity of ryhthme, as well as brilliance in execution, made his performance exceptionally worthy of attention.—
St. Louis, Mo., Times.


Joseph Gill, the fifteen-year-old violinist, was the Star of the imported talent, and played selections of the great composers in a highly creditable manner.—
Omaha, Neb., Daily News.


Miss Marguerite Noble's auditors were almost ecstatic in their praise of the quality of her musical interpretations and the marvelous control she exercised over a most difficult instrument.  Her solos are revelations of sympathetic musicianship.—
Jonesbury Mo., Journal.


Miss Davault was heartily applauded.  Her Christmas story affected the audience more than any reading ever given in our city before.—
Harvest Herald, Harvey, N. D.


In Miss Davault we seek in vain for flaws.  We have heard some of the leading readers of America, but few indeed more pleasing than Annie Therese Davault.  She has absolutely no pose.  She forgets herself and the audience, and lives the scenes which she depicts.  The audience cheered her to the echo and she responded to encores in a very charming manner.—
Redwood Reveille, Redwood Falls, Minn.


As a reader Miss Davault has few equals.  Her selections were especially happy, giving her opportunity not only to reveal her remarkable ability of expression, but enabling her to disclose a versatility in character portrayal rarely found in a woman reader, and the enthusiastic encores given her indicate better than can any description the impression she made on her audience—
Dunn County News, Menomonie, Wis.,

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Gave the best reading ever given at our Chautauqua.—
Attica, Ind., Daily Ledger.


Brings tears or hearty laughter at will.—
Cooperstown, N. Y. Freemans Journal.


Puts life and soul into every sylable; is a whole show in herself.—
Nevada Mo., Daily Mail.


ANNIE THERESE DAVAULT, Entertainer



A mistress of expression, dialect and linguistic peculiarities.—
Cando, N. D., Democrat.


Her facial and vocal control is reremarkable.—
Three Rivers, Mich., Commercial.


Her pathos was effective and touching, comedy delightful and her humor contagious.—
Princeton, N. Y., Daily Pioneer.

This Trio combination, Piano, Violin and Cello is recognized by the great masters, as one of the finest for chamber music.

These three musicians, each a well graced artist, are controlled, not by one of them as leader, but by a sensitive and poetic spirit, common to all.  The identity of each one is marked and it is a joy to the hearer, but these identities are controlled as by one impulse, one directing soul.


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In his program, Mr. Plowe introduced many charming numbers—indeed, almost without exception, the songs seemed to sing their way into the hearts of the audience, and to bring this artist from afar into close and sympathetic touch.  Mr. Plowe has a bass range, along with the tonal qualities of a baritone voice, and revealed unsuspected depths of emotional interpretation in many of his numbers.  The program was an ambitious one, and was sung in a manner to justify a lively interest in the future of so young an artist.—
Fr. Wayne, Ind., Journal-Gazette.


He is only a few years old, slenderly built, and tenderly reared, is Joseph Gill, but he is a violinist right now.  Last Wednesday night, with Alfred G. Robyn at the piano, he played a remarkable program, in a remarkable way, and created something a little above mild astonishment by his skill.—
St. Louis, Mo., Dramatic News


Mr. Plowe has a most musical voice and sings with absolute repose and ease.  His perfect vocalism made the coloratura difficulties of Elliots famous Song of Hybrias the Cretan sound as simple as a ballad.—
Havana, Ill., Press


Miss Marguerite Noble's playing is soulful and artistic.—
St. Louis, Mo., Post-Dispatch.