The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-08-19

Miss Hussey's Reading IN Deer Lodge.

One of the best audiences ever assembled
in Deer Lodge copyrighted last Saturday
evening to hear Miss Hussey's reading, and
the occasion wa happily both a financial and
artistic success Miss Hussey IL teacher OF
the advanced department In the Helena
Graded School. She IL graduate OF Vassar
College. an institution which ranks with
Harvard and Yale in the thorough education
impaired TO those who pass through the college
proper ami receive its diplomas. Some
weeks since, mt n church benefit In Helena,
Miss Hussey, who had devoted especial at
tention to eiocution, read some selections
and has since read Mt White Sulphur Springs
and Butte The best judges were astonished
nj the excellence of her renderings, and the
press has universally paid high tribute To her
talents and requirements. She therefore
came Def ,re the audience here facing the or
deal of exacting anticipation. Her efforts
were listened to, not so much ~ those OF an
amateur striving to excel and win approval,
m Of aprofessional who asserted the concep
| ton and rendering rs correct and challenged
criticism. Yet, even In this spirit, inexora-
bly, just while cordially sympathetic. the au.
ditors yielded acknowledgment OF the lady's
cultured talents and approved with hearty
plaudits her efforts. The reading was an nm.
| qualified success and only kind words were
spoken then or since.
Yet, conceding the justice Of approval, the
exceptional ability evidenced, the gratifica
ton In listening to such reading, that IL has
not been equalled even by professionals IL
| Montana, and that eighty minutes constant
and difficult recitation IL very severe fria
| To subject a voice to, we believe her EFFORTS
are vet but the promise of better achieve
ments when study, practice and experience
shall have tempered judgment and perfected
| expression. Miss Hussey has asnperb voic'
nnder perfect control She read some selec
tions much better here than In Helena. bu
she ye reads some passages too rapidly.
| il good 10 hold an audience In suspense 81
| times. Al larger experience will give create
confidence and enable the reader to divine
for this the proper times and places Again
Ne have heard the conception questioned
| where In the swinging OF the Cnrfew BEL
liz tones ara given when the whole sent
ment OF the poem turns upon the fact that !
gave forth no sound. The dramatic action \
thrilling, the tones of the bell are given su
perbly, hut the criticism Is just that these ~
fects sacrifice the fact. The readings wer'
| nat without defects like these 10 auditor
who were rs keenly alive to faulf-hnding y
| endowment And yet they are OF the trivia
faults that will disappear IN the years o
study the lady proposes TO devote TO eiocn
/ ton. and Ii rather disarins criticism to know
4 ,h,,, III. considers herself but tyro and
her own most severe censor. The programm
/ h.r, wa. i difiicnlt one. There are few
more difficult readings than tue Crecds o. 'h
| Bells and the colloquy between Dir Peter an'
Lady Teazle In Shcridan's grand comedy
III. School for Scandal. There are ley
thtp.s more pathetic than Mrs. Browning
Mother and Poet and Ahtrich's Face Againr
~ pane. ..,scilla. Bedott's Garrnlity
broad humor and Charley Machree II full 9
auiek intensity In ail these the reaue
,.aupht the spirit or the piece, with compass
,,,nu,e and tone hutitting each. and ieayiu
~ hearers In doubt IN which line she e
a.,l.a We believe Charley Machree eut
| lied to the palm, but dramatic action = : =
ceiv,ng accessory. Mother and fnet Wa =
sxouIsits reading and the humorous piece
were admirable.
~. arr rrafifiei, indeed, that our peop'
Il .nnor,unity 10 hear Miss Hnssey. ~
cu,ian Il TOO llttie taught In the schools ~
IN accorded high enough place In pnDiic =
.s,natiaa. lis the mother of eloquence, -
,.gin sister of music and one q the very
80, ..co.nplis hmrnts that can u Acquires
II MA, Hsxsey,s readings shall have inspire
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