Mendelssohn Quartette and Marguerite Smith, child impersonator

              The Mendelssohn Quartette and Marguerite Smith Child Impersonator
Alpheus M. Applegate
Wm. C. Smith
Marguerite Smith
Herbert Raymond Loder Concert Pianist
H. S. Barnett
V. L. Alkire
Central Ptg. & Eng. Co. Rochester, N. Y.
Mendelssohn Quartette Company 
ALPHEUS M. APPLEGATE, First Tenor WILLIAM  C. SMITH. Second Tenor HERBERT  RAYMOND   LODER, Pianist
Alabama. Very far above the average. Their selections are of the highest order.—Birmington Age-Herald.
Arkansas. Voices that show high cultivation. Their ensemble can only be the result of patient and thorough work.—Pine Bluff Daily Commercial.
Connecticut. An inspiring harmony between the entertainers and the entertained.— Torrington Even¬ing Register.
Georgia.. You have not often heard cleaner articulation, nor better shading and expression.—Augusta Chronicle.
Iowa.. The tone-quality of the united voices was rich, well balanced and sympathetic.—Des Moines Mail and Times.
Illinois. The quartet of fine, rich male voices was very evenly balanced and the result was the per¬fection of harmony.—Jacksonville Courier.
HOWARD   STEWART   BARNETT,  Barytone URBAN   LEO   ALKIRE. Basso MARGUERITE  SMITH. Child Impersonator
sir              Indiana.    Most satisfactory number ever secured
re-      by the Association.—Crawfordsville Journal.
Kansas.    The best  that  has been here for m.iny
n.      seasons.— Wichita Daily Eagle.
id               Kentucky.    Their  rich, full  harmonious  voices
won the audience completely.—Lexington Daily Leader.
sn               Louisiana.    A clean, wholesome program, every
'«-      number   being   well  rendered   and  enthusiastically  re¬ceived.—Baton Rouge Advocate.
er               Maryland.     Every   member   of   the company
ta      an artist.    The program unusually pleasing and interest¬ing.—Cumberland Daily News.
as               Massachusetts.    Voices   of  excellent quality,
'il      perfect blending.
Michigan.    In ensemble their singing was almost
es      faultless.—Saginaw Courier-Journal.
Jr-               Minnesota.    Worthy of all the praise that has
been   bestowed   upon  them.—Stillwater Daily   Gazette.
NOTHING succeeds like success, but when success is found, back of it will be found also years of close application and strong endeavor. Many attractions come and go, failing through lack of energy, purpose, talent or training. Among those fitted to survive, few have stood the test as well and none better than the "MENDELSSOHNS." This deservedly famous QUARTETTE, during a substantial growth of five seasons, has appeared with unvaried success in every section of the United States, and has four times toured the Canadian provinces. The QUARTETTE will be ably supported again by that most popular and widely known entertainer, MARGUERITE SMITH, and this season will be also materially strengthened by the addition of HERBERT RAYMOND LODER, Concert Pianist. The name " MENDELSSOHN " has come to be a guarantee of excellence. We commend them unreservedly to those of   our patrons desiring high-class  musical  entertainment.
TRESS COMMENTS from TWENTY-SEVEN STATES and the DOMINION of CANADA
Mendelssohn Quartette Company
MR. A. M. APPLhGATE
MR. W. C. SMITH
MR. H. S. BARNETT
MR. U. L. ALKIRH
M|R.   APPLK-
 GATE'S num¬ber was especially pleasing and called forth a well-deserved encore. He has a re¬markably pure tenor voice under good control and his sing¬ing shows both cul¬ture and taste.—
II finneapolis Journal.
|y|R. SMITH, the second tenor not only blends well in the quartette but in some of the comic numbers he seems quite natu¬rally to adapthimself to the funny situ¬ations with good ef¬fect.—London ( On/.) Free Press.
iy|R. BARNETT has a fine, re¬sonant voice of the heroic type, and his solo proved an espe¬cially popular num¬ber. —Toronto World.
With a resonant, high baritone voice Mr. Bar-nett displayed his control and noticeably facile ex¬ecution of the long and difficult phrases of his aria.— The Cincinnati Enquirer.
]V|R. ALKIRE
has a sonor¬ous, well-modulated basso, which he uses effectively. His smooth, easy delivery and good enunci¬ation make it a great pleasure to listen to him.—The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Texas. Singers and hearers were in hearty sym¬pathy.—Houston.
Wisconsin. Perfect blending of voices, shading and expression.—Racine Arews.
Ohio. Of a high order musically. The voices blended finely.—Columbus State Journal.
New Jersey. The music was of a quality to command rapt attention.—Patterson Morning Call.
New Hampshire. Songs to suit every mood, gay, grave, sentimental and patriotic.—Littleton Courier.
South Dakota. A program that would gratify all tastes. Their quartette work is faultless.—Deadioood Pioneer Times.
Vermont. A strictly high-class company. One of the finest entertainments ever given in town.—Middle-bury Register.
New York. From an entertainment standpoint, the most successful number on the course.—Bingham ton Republican.
Ontario. A well balanced singing organization. Their connected work was really good.— Toronto Mail and Express.
Pennsylvania.. Every member of this strong company is proficient in his especial role.—Scranton Times.
Mississippi. They gave a most enjoyable concert, singing in perfect unison and with tuneful melody.— Vicksburg Daily Herald.
West Virginia. A rare musical treat. More than delighted the audience from the first number to the final one.— Charleston Daily Gazette.
South Carolina.. A splendid program. In solo and duet, each showed remarkable power, range and modulation.—Columbia State.
Tennessee. It would be difficult to get together four voices which blend so beautifully and all so individ¬ually so excellent.—Nashville Daily News.
Mr. Herbert Raymond Loder
Concert Pianist, pupil of Albiano Gorno, has concerted and taught in various sections of the United States for the past four years. He comes to us from the Birming ham (Ala.) Conservatory of music. Mr. Loder has all the essential qualities of a great pianist. His interpreta¬tions are characterized by strong musical temperament, brilliant technique, fine sense of touch and an intelligent conception. As an accompanist, he has the rare ability to maintain a perfect sympathy with the singer.
Cincinnati Enquirer. MR. LODER gave an intelligent rendition of the "Grieg Variations." He has a good touch, a clever sense of technique and plays with remarkable feeling.
Birmingham Age.Herald. This young man's ability is most pronounced. He essays with credit some of the most difficult compositions, and gives to them the characteristic interpretation of a thorough musician.
New York Musical Courier. MR. LODER gave a scholarly interpretation of Schuman's "Aufsch-wung." He played all the accompaniments and the influence of his experience and fine musical taste were the merits revealed in  his work last evening.
Miss Marguerite Smith
MARGUERITE SMITH, child impersonator,
                 associated for many years with the famous
"Smith Sisters" and for the past two seasons with the " MENDELSSOHN QUARTETTE/' has appeared in more than eighteen hundred cities and towns in the United States and Canada, and it is a fact remarkable among Lyceum talent, that she has never received an adverse criticism.
Miss SMITH has made a life study of children—their ways and characteristics— and in her chosen field of child-lore, she stands alone, the acknowledged queen of this realm. Although capable of the stronger dramatic roles, the demands of her audi¬ences for her own specialty are so insistent, that she confines herself to the interpretation of the wondrous and quaint thoughts, speech and action of childhood, and her remarkable voice, together with her ability to imitate, enables her to portray with equal success all ages and conditions of this interesting little world. Her work supplies just the proper spice, variety and bal¬ance  to  round   out a concert   programme to   its   best   proportions.
Fred Emerson Brooks. Miss MARGUERITE SMITH is, in my opinion, the best child impersonator on the American platform.
Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald. Miss SMITH is as clever an impersonator and imitator of the ways and characteristics of children as she is of their voices and is deservedly named the "Queen of Child Impersonators."
Canton  (Ohio)  News  Democrat.    She is
doubtless the best child impersonator on the platform of today. The wonderful changes of tone and voice, and the complete imitation of childish tricks and stories were remarkable.
Philadelphia Times. Her voice is under wonderful control and changes from its natural tone to childish   treble   without   the   slightest   apparent   effort.
Boston Journal of Education. As a re¬citer Miss SMITH is matchless in the delicacy of art and the touch of heart power which she has cultivated in her renderings.
Des Moines (la.) Mail and Times. Miss SMITH stands at the head of child impersonators. The facility with which she changes from the ordinary con¬versational tone to that of the six-year-old is little short of marvelous. Her readings were exquisitely true to nature.
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