Schumann Lady Quartet and Jennie D. Shoemaker, impersonator

              AWARDED THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION MEDAL AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, CHICAGO.
THE SCHUANN LADY QUARTET.
JENNIE D. SHOEMAKER, Impersonator
Mary D. Hall
Ada Haines Kidston
Jennie D. Shoemaker
Hattie Sprangenberg
Gertrude Sprague
Under the Management of  W.F.W. HALL
Room 41, 94 Lasalle St., Chicago, Ill.
OPERA HOUSE,
MONDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 15, 1894.
SPECIAL PRICES—Parquet, 50c. Dress Circle. 35c.   Gallery. 25c.
THE
SCHUMANN   LADY QUARTETTE.
MARY D. KALL,  1ST SOPRANO.
ADA HAINES KIDSTON, 2D SOPRANO.
HATTIE SPANGENBERG, 1ST CONTRALTO.
GERTRUDE SPRAGUE, 2D CONTRALTO
This splendid organization is declared by the most competent musicians and musical critics to be the finest lady quartette in the West. The finished and artistic character of their work is the result of the long association, as a quartette, of four beautiful and finely cultivated voices. They possess a blending of vocal quality, absolute precision of concerted movement, distinct enunciation and a delicate adjustment of expressive shading rarely attained in this department of effort.
PRESS NOTICES.
A charming concert was that given in Weber Hall last evening by the Schumann Lady Quar¬tette. The voices of the four ladies are won¬derfully harmonious, and they sang together with such perfect expression. "The Swedish Wedding March," "By-lo-land," "Sweet and Low," and "We Parted by the River Side," the Quartette gave with excellent effect, and the good-night song, "Ye Spotted Snakes," by McFarren, was perhaps best of all.—Chicago Tribune.
The second benefit concert to aid the First Regiment in building its new armory was given at the Auditorium last night. In the second part the Schumann Lady Quartette sang "We Parted by the River Side" so sweetly that the large gathering fairly went into ecstacies.— Chicago Times.
The Schumann Lady Quartette is doing ex¬cellent work this season. As now constituted, it is doubtful if a superior exists. Their voices blend most excellently, their shading and phrasing are artistic, and their distinctness of enunciation cannot be too highly praised. It is as good as it is rare.—Saturday Mail (Chi¬cago).
Mr. L. A. Phelps gave a piano and song re¬cital last evening at Weber Hall, in which he was assisted by the Schumann Lady Quartette. The Quartette sang several numbers which were warmly applauded. Their voices blend well, and they sing with marked taste. Among their selections were: Abt's "Lovely Star," Mendelssohn's "Twenty third Psalm," and a waltz song by Lamothe.—Inter Ocean (Chi-cago).
PRESS NOTICES, CONTINUED.
The second of the popular course of enter¬tainments under the auspices of Young Men's Organization of the Ninth United Presbyterian Church took place at Carnegie's Music Hall Tuesday evening. The Schumann Lady Quar¬tette of Chicago was the attraction, and they appeared before a large assemblage. The Quartette enraptured the audience completely. Their appearance was a signal for applause and their retirement the occasion for a hearty en¬core. Their beautiful blending of tones, their clear articulation, combined with delicate shad¬ing, seemed to leave nothing to be desired ex¬cept to hear them again and again. The voices of the four ladies are unusually harmonious and they sing together with perfect expression. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS,
A Fine Concert at the Y. M. C.  A.   Hall Last Night.
The Y. M. C. A. are certainly giving the Camden public entertainments of a high order. The Schumann Lady Quartette, of Chicago, delighted a large audience last evening. It was the second entertainment on the regular course, and more than fulfilled the highest ex-pectations.
The voices are well blended and form a well balanced quartette. The soprano is clear and sweet, the contralto soft, deep and rich, the shading and enunciation especially good. They fully sustained their reputation as artists of great ability. Most of their numbers were rendered without a note of piano accompani¬ment and fully stood the difficult test. "Hear Dem Bells," as rendered in the first part of the program, was enthusiastically received. The soft, silvery and then loud peals and vibrations of the bells were vocalized in fine form. An¬other most difficult selection, "Annie Laurie," was admirably rendered and loudly applauded. The solo numbers were also artistically rend¬ered and heartily encored.
The whole program was one of great excel¬lence.—Post, Camden, N. J.
A successful concert was given last evening by the Schumann Lady Quartette under the auspices of the senior class of the North Side high school. The large hall was filled with an appreciative audience and a program of more than usual merit was presented. The quartette includes real artists. Their naturally fine voices are well trained and balance harmon¬iously and they give with adequate execution the best order of music. They are all young women of pleasing presence and prepossessing appear¬ance and when they appeared daintily attired alike in Empire gowns of crimson satin, they were enthusiastically greeted. Their numbers ranged from grave to gay and from simple to ambitious. Their introductory selection was "Be Still," by Mohring. They gave "Hear Dem Bells," arranged by Haven, in a spright¬ly manner, and one of their prettiest numbers was Revell's Fan song, which they gave with a graceful and coquettish swaying of fans. They sang "An'nie Laurie" with good effect, and as their last number rendered Goldberg's "Good Night." They were enthusiastically encored. The Quartette has been traveling since Sep¬tember and has sung 100 nights since that time.—Minneapolis Times.
The concert Friday night at the North Side High School, by the Schumann Quartette, proved an event of great interest, both because the organization was capable of entertaining and because the large audience was in full sympathy with the singers. So many inferior musicals are inflicted upon a generous public that a good concert is the more appreciated, and the Schumann Lady Quartette is composed of well balanced singers, who are at the same time soloists. The concert proved genuinely enjoyable, and while the great distance from town at which it was given prevented the usual concert goers from attending, it was the more a treat for those who were enthusiastic listeners. Encores were warmly demanded and as freely granted, and the Quartette closed its program with a "Good Night" song which left a pleasant impression with its hearers. — Minneapolis Journal.
THOROUGHLY PLEASING.
A Splendid   Entertainment  Given by the Schumann  Lady Quartette.
The Schumann Lady Quartette drew a fair-sized and thoroughly appreciative audience at the Temple last evening. The Quartette is un-doubtedly the finest for women's voices in the country, and in the concerted numbers showed a smoothness that only long and careful study gives. After "Hear Dem Bells," which was charmingly given, a prompt and extended encore brought the ladies out to give "Comin'Thro' the Rye," a lovely arrangement by Fred Root and the gem of the evening.
Taking the evening into entirety, Duluth has seen nothing for many months as thoroughly pleasing as this company.—Duluth News-Tri¬bune.
MISS  JENNIE   D.  SHOEMAKER,
SINGING,   READER   AND   DELSARTEAN.
Miss SHOEMAKER, of Chicago, is well known in society and succeeds in doing what many artists fail to do, she entertains her audience.
She is powerful in her dramatic readings, and excels in her delsartean work.
PRESS    NOTICES.
Miss Jennie Shoemaker, one of Chicago's most gifted young elocutionists, gave an entertain¬ment in the Oakland M. E. Church on Thursday evening, that deserves more than a passing notice, because of some of its special features. This talented young girl has. taken from the poets certain songs which she has arranged as "readings" set to music and through this unique and distinctive performance she gives the ex¬quisite rhythm of Delsartean movements.
On Thursday evening she gave that touching song of Riley's "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" —and "The Children's Hour" from Longfellow; with her mother, an accomplished musician, at the piano, and in the closing piece, "The Chil¬dren's Hour," she was assisted by the violin and piano, with a quartette stationed in an adjoining room which gave to her graceful movements and flute like voice an additional charm, and to the lovers of real melody a realization of the power vested in the human organization, viz: the music of motion as well as of voice, and for a parlor reception nothing could be finer or more en¬joyable.
Miss Shoemaker has a beautiful, sensitive face, lithe, graceful figure, with dark eyes full of womanly tenderness, and to this charming personel she adds an artistic simplicity in dress, and her costumes are chosen with dis¬tinctive modesty and a close following of Gre-cian outlines, so becoming to young woman¬hood. Such earnest, thoughtful workers as she are doing much to elevate the stage, and to bring the drama up to its legitimate stand¬ard.—News (Chicago).
At the concert in the Arcade Theatre last Saturday evening, given by the Pullman Mili¬tary Band, the charming young elocutionist, Miss Jennie Shoemaker, gave a reading enti¬tled "The Confessional." Possessed of a good voice, fine stage presence and strong dramatic force, it is not surprising that this young lady captivated her audience, holding them spell¬bound from the commencement to the finish of this difficult number.—Pullman Arcade.
Those who failed to hear Miss Jennie Shoe¬maker, the elocutionist, missed a treat of a life¬time.—Princeton Journal.
Jennie Shoemaker as an elocutionist captiv¬ated the audience; no further proofs are neces¬sary, her reputation is already established.— Beaver Dam (Wis.) News.
Miss Shoemaker introduced a novelty in a series of graceful and beautiful delsartean gest¬ures, poses and attitudes accompanied by music. The audience was taken by storm, if the expression can be used for a capture which was made in perfect silence except for the rip¬pling accompaniment.—Cedar Rapids Gazette.
At the entertainment given at the Methodist Church last Friday night, among the many fine selections given, the best on the program was the reading of Miss Jennie Shoemaker. Miss Shoemaker is second to none of any of the elo¬cutionists who have ever recited in this city. It is marvelous the talent she has in this direc¬tion. If she continues we are not afraid to say she will rank among the first elocutionists of the country.— Waukegan Gazette.
A select audience greeted Miss Jennie Shoe¬maker, the rising young dramatic reader and accomplished Delsartean performer at the Christian church Tuesday, and really a much smaller audience than the excellent entertain ment deserved, for those who were so fortunate as to be present were happily entertained. All her numbers were well deserving the generous applause they received from the enthusiastic audience. Miss Shoemaker, although now a resident of Chicago, is still well known here, having spent the earlier years of her life in Des Moines among us. Her performances show that her training has been of the best and of an exceedingly careful nature. With a fig¬ure of rare loveliness and beauty and a hand¬some face along with her natural grace and ease of manner, she immediately captivates an audience, for she is simply irresistible.—Mail and Times, Des Moines, Ia.