Show LS The Child LUre like Her Mother Is Very Musical Amy Leslie In the Chicago News says It Is quite settled that Daughty Russell Lillian Russells little girl is isto I Ito to go to Europe this autumn to study music and the languages Daughty has a wonderful talent for music nat naturally naturally as her father Teddy Solomon was so cultured and brilliant a corn com composer poser and performer and her mother has been musical all her life intensely so devotedly musical with all the keen sense of it and none of the frenzy for Lillian Is always absolutely calm and cool even In her deepest enjoyments She seldom laughs loud or heartily but smiles and smiles evidently as an aver average average age accumulating quite as much pleas pleasure pleasure ure in her smile as other more enthusiastic and reckless giggles do In prolonged guffaws She never had anything approaching hys hysterics tories in her life and takes sorrow dry of eye and without trembling and yet she Is one of the most sympathetic natures and is always wrought up in her frigid way ivay over misfortune misfortune tune Lillians music is sincere and scholarly She studied all ail her girlhood right here in Chicago when music was lIner finer and larger and had less of the cad and hippodrome element at the back of It when people who taught had hadnot hadnot not swallowed so much raw guesswork from foreign sharps and nd when methods were simple but sure ure and nearer the chastity of masters Chicago Is a musical dumping ground now non We cannot support opera nor even do justice to Thomas and his big orchestra which has been kept nobly ahead of the struggle not by musicians but rich patrons who seldom hear a concert but consider their citizenship worth so much expenditure In a dignified fled fied cause of art There used to be al altogether altogether together another atmosphere about music when Nellie Leonard and Nannie began to interest the amateur and pro professional army of workers In music Concert companies local and delightful entertained continually and dozens of clubs of young embryo musicians were trying and learning And there were so many local singers of merit and en both men and women that the very choirs of the churches boasted prima donnas and tenors of conspicuous ous popularity Now choirs are tolema tolerably bly harmless necessities given over to pretty little boys in costume if at all compatible with rituals and the sing singers ers era although good in have not that great vogue the old quartette church singers used to have The or organists organists who are always more or less lessIn lessin In the hero line of worship are not sen sensational sensational enough to draw a house at a benefit Music and dramatic art both have felt the changes of the times In local attitudes for the stock player of early days and Hooleys were so Idolized and so brilliant so and haughty that the humble stock actor of today is a mere pygmy with his narrow following and his hard work The soubrette having fallen by the wayside In the matter of parts Is not the frolicsome certainty In every performance for none of the new playwrights knows knotts how to write sou brette parts any more than the new soubrettes know how heir to play the old time rough comedy S S Perhaps the stretching of a town with its gossip and a contact conta t of minds and states into a huge metropolis with ar sir armies mies of strangers rubbing and amid exchanging Ideas hourly makes the dif ference but nobody has felt the shadow of monotonous more than the early musicians who rho studied fruitfully and beautifully right here years ago Jessie Davis who In contrast to Rue Rus Russell Ruesell sell Is all musical nerves and thrills and wild feels as lost among the new musicians as If she were In a foreign land She used to be in the swim of It with a stroke ahead of the best of them but she slips in at the side doors of harmony chasers temples and wonders what their Jargon and tram trum trumpery pery pretense all means Lillian Rus Russell Russell sell and Jessie did not belong to the same guild though they were not far apart in their beginning of the search for music and had bad the same teachers from time to time Daughty Russell has a voice too and Willie Davis who is about the same age has but Willie shuts one eye and laughs when any body asks him to sing Once In a awhile while he will lock his doors and take out a guitar and strum music musically musically ally upon it but he wilt will not take lessons nor In any way devote himself to that which he regards manfully as one of ot the feminine arts without reserve Wil lie ought to be called Bill or William Willie does not fit his broad straight shoulders or his mannish way 4 Daughty used to travel with her mother and was a good deal of worry as well as pleasure to the prima donna Daughty had her own religious con convictions convictions at an early age and one was that prayer was a good thing at any anytime anytime time and place and down would little Miss Russell flop clasp her hands and address the high throne whenever she was bored or there was evidence of weariness IK ire her company At night she had a wonderful string of appeals which she used to have her mother jot jo t down on paper and then produce when bedtime made it possible to pray until l drowsiness overtook everybody present If Nellie lost the paper there was war decidedly not in line with religious religions precocity so something was always produced and carefully read over to the revival Infant who would pick out her favorite supplications and present them seriously She had a list lis t of beneficiaries in her evening prayers including all the comedians is the corn com company pany some of the chorus the property man and scene shifters the baggage man and one tenor All her mothers numerous family had been added to this aggregation and sometimes before Daughty reached the end she was pretty tired of enumeration One night at prayers after Including her corn com companions her grandmothers Immediate progenitors and some of her aunts she lisped sleepily Now Lord ira IBS you know any more of dem Leonards why dus you bress dem too I em |