Jessie Bartlett Davis and her company of artists

              AMERICA’S GREASTEST CONTRALTO
Jessie Bartlett Davis AND HER COMPANY OF ARTISTS
Management Ohio and East The Brockway Lecture Bureau
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Jessie Bartlett Davis
Supported by An All-Star Company
ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR many years Jessie Bartlett Davis, the famous contralto, has been considered the most popular soloist on the American stage. Featured for a number of years with the Bostonians, her popularity grew from year to year, and she was always heralded as the bright particular star of that well-known opera company. Now at the very height of her career, with voice more beautiful than ever, she is devoting her time to concert work. For the past two seasons Mrs. Davis has made a trans-continental tour of the leading theaters, and has received the largest salary ever paid a similar attraction. Every place she has been greeted with packed houses. Season before last she sang for eight weeks in Chicago, her home town, so at least our great artist is not without honor in her home city. Two years ago Mrs. Davis made a short concert tour under the personal direction of Charles L. Wagner, Secretary of the Slayton Bureau, and the tour was such an artistic triumph that this bureau decided on more extended tours. Mrs. Davis will be supported by an all-star company, a splendid program has been arranged, and each town visited is assured the rarest treat of the season. Columns have been written about Mrs. Davis, but we give only one notice below, for she is too well known to need newspaper notices. She has been pictured and written up in every paper of any note in the land, and her name is a house¬hold word. She richly deserves the name of being the most popular singer in America. She reaches the hearts of the people, and no one could want greater praise. Mrs. Davis receives the largest salary of any concert singer in America, and has drawn the largest houses. She has popularized many of our most beautiful songs, and has sung  "O, Promise Me" over eight thousand times. Her company this year is very strong. Among the supporting artists is Carrie Jacobs Bond, the popular song writer and author. Mrs. Bond will sing and read her own compositions, and accompany on the piano those of her songs that Mrs. Davis sings. The company also includes Frank Croxton, baritone, Walter Logan, violinist, and Fay Hill, pianist.
Bloomington (Ill.) Bulletin — Of Mrs. Davis too much cannot be said for the dramatic force, the vigor and the enthusiasm with which she enters her work. She was the same Jessie of yore at the performance, apparently as young, as fresh and as charming as ever. She sang in exquisite voice, remarkable for its clear tones and great range, and encore after encore was given to which she responded with a willingness that seldom characterizes many singers of note. Monday night was the first appearance before a Bloomington audience in years, but after her first number, which was liberally applauded, she swept the audience with her, and they demanded one selection after another. She sang "Love's Sacred Trust," and for an encore gave that fetching melody, "If You Win a Woman's Heart." But the audience was not satisfied even then, and it howled its appreciation in a most vigorous manner. With each song the artist grew on the audience and more suggested still more. In the second half of the program the enthusiasm of the audience knew no bounds. Mrs. Davis sang "The Rosary," and to an impetuous encore gave "Comin' Through the Rye." That plaintive little ballad only whetted the appetite of the audience, and it would not permit her to retire, but after vigorous clamor she returned and sang " O, Promise Me," a selection which exhibited the beautiful pure contralto tones of the singer. Those popular old selections were too much for the crowd, and again Mrs. Davis was compelled to respond. She sang a ditty, and for the fourth recall gave " I Wonder if 'Twere Wrong." After that and Mrs. Davis' refusal to appear again from sheer exhaustion, the applause subsided.
JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS, CARRIE JACOBS BOND AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS ENDORSE THE CONOVER PIANOS, MANUFACTURED BY THE CABLE COMPANY, CHICAGO
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Supported by An All-Star Company
Mr. Frank Croxton
has had rare opportunities in his musical training. Possessing a bass voice of great range and beauty, he went to New York City when very young to continue his studies in all branches of music, not only perfecting his voice work, but becoming an excellent musician, a virtue appreciated by all conductors. He has lately been added to the faculty of the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory. And he holds the two best church positions in Chicago, those of Kenwood Evangelical Church and the Kehileith Anshe Mayrib Temple. During the past season Mr. Croxton has booked many of the best engagements, including the Spring Festival tour with Theodore Thomas Orchestra.
Burlington Journal — One of the most delightful treats of the festival was the good singing of Frank Croxton, the basso. His voice caused much wonder and comment, and the part was sung with splendid effect.
Lexington (Ky.) Herald — Mr. Croxton's singing of the basso part was a genuine treat.   A wonderful voice.
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond
the gifted song writer and poetess of Chicago, enjoys a unique place among the platform entertainers. Few writers are better known. Her songs arc sung everywhere and by all the great singers, and will live as among the best of the day. Of her work a prominent Chicago critic has said: "Your songs have the power to charm that springs from a melodiousness at once natural and refined, a sincerity instantly appreciable, and a simplicity as artistic as it is rare. Your talent is an unusual one. May nothing interfere to rob the song-world and singers of the exquisite appealing little melody-poems it is capable of producing."
Charles Eugene Banks — Carrie Bond has a faculty of composing sweet, tender melodies that fit homely poems of the day as a flower fits its stalk. Many of the poems she has set to music are her own composition, and these songs are among the best in her collection. Added to her gifts as a composer, both of poems and music, she has a sweet contralto voice, and sings these songs in a simple and unaffected manner. I have never been more charmingly entertained than I was at one of her "At Home " recitals recently. There is a pathos in her work that clings to one long after tKe entertainment is over. I wondered if an individual mood is necessary to discover this quality in her music, and was pleased to be told by several others that they felt it just as I did. This I believe to be the true test of the artistic merits in her work. It warrants a prophecy of its permanence.
Jessie Bartlett Davis 
Supported by An All-Star Company
Mr. Walter G. Logan
the talented violinist, is a native of Canada, and when quite young came to this country, entering the violin class of Mr. Henry Miller, one of the best known teachers in the United States. For five years he was under his personal instruction. Following Mr. Miller's advice, he went to the celebrated Bernhard Listemann (Director Violin Department Chicago College of Music), with whom he remained for some time. After an extended concert tour, he studied with Sol Marcosson (for four years a pupil of Joseph Joachim).
Evanston Index — Mr. Logan displayed excellent tonal color, and much technical facility. His interpretation of the Andante from the Mendelssohn concerto was refined and broad, and his work in the Sarasate number cleancut and piquant.
Salt Lake Herald — The recital at the First Presbyterian Church last evening, for the benefit of the church building fund, drew a large audience. The principal Soloist was Violinist Walter Logan of Chicago, who fairly charmed his auditors. He demonstrated a marvelous familiarity with the old masters, and in his performance conveyed so much of the soul of the instrument to the listeners that his name was upon every lip as they filed out of the building.
Miss Fay Hill
The brilliant young pianist and accompanist will assist Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis, and we feel we have secured an artist in every way worthy of this superior attraction. Miss Hill has been connected with the Chicago Auditorium Conservatory as teacher and recitalist for several seasons, and her recitals have been brilliant musical successes.
Beaver Dam, Wis., Argus — The recital was most thoroughly enjoyed by everyone present, and the interpretation and technical execution of the various compositions were subjects of most favorable comment.
Chillicothe, Mo., Tribune — Miss Hill has established herself among her townspeople as a pianist of unusual ability, and the recital given by her Thursday night was one of the musical feasts of the season.
Chicago Inter Ocean — A marked feature of Miss Hill's playing was poetic insight in her reading of the different selections chosen. She possesses excellent technical facility and her interpretation showed careful and intelligent study of each of the works chosen.
Waukegan Daily Gazette — Miss Fay Hill, a teacher in Chicago Conservatory, is a pianist of marked ability and it was her first appearance here. Her selections were each received with ovations. She accompanied Mr. Willett and Miss Finney in their singing.
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