Identifier: bellesbeauxbrain00dele (find matches)
Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914
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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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The comic singers par excellence were Innes and John
Randolph — the latter with his undying " Grasshopper " and
his saucy " Good Old Rebel " ditties—and " Ran " Tucker, of
" Noble Skewball " and " Mr. Johnsing " recitative. Wonder-

BELLES BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 209

ful was that refrain—and the action that accompanied it—
when the great jurist sang of the immortal racehorse! Gray-
Latham trolled his " Eveline " with great effect, but his hearers
could not readily accommodate themselves to the ingrain
wag's dropping into sentiment, as Mr. Wegg was wont to do
into poetry.
The pretty and gracious
Macmurdo sisters, Saidie and
Hennie, lent their good so-
prano and alto to music of
that day, and Hector Eaches
—the gifted young painter
with the sunshine face—
would sometimes run up
from camp in his private's
jacket, a new sketch in his
pocket, an old song in his
clear, strong throat and a
huge appetite a few inches
below it.
The gayest of the Haxall
homes of that day was that of
the Barton Haxalls. Its
daughter. Miss Lucy, was
among the most sought
of the younger set of society women. Handsome,
stylish and with mingled geniality and savoir faire, she
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MRS. EDWARD L. COFFEY
(LUCY HAXALL)

made friends and held them. Not a prominent musi-
cian herself. Miss Haxall loved music and was promoter of
many concerts and other affairs combining music and charity.
It was at her house that the " Musical Club " met most fre-
quently. This grew out of the self-collected material of the
Mosaic. Washington, Myers and Randolph were its origina-
tors, and it grew rapidly. It was an equally original club,

210 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES

and if memory serves me, was likewise without organization,
and had no officers. It collected the best musical material,
quite in the same fashion that the Mosaic did the mental and
the humorous. Yet, some of its most useful members were
not Mosaics. One instance was Professor Thilow, a fine
performer on the violoncello; another, James Grant, whose
virile basso was a real feature, until the act of his own hand
put him beyond the pale.
This club was the origin of many an improvised orchestra
for charity functions.

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