The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-20
Music Pays When
One Is Handsome
Appearance Rather Than Merit is
Often the Signal for Success.
CASE OF LILLIAN RUSSELL

Not Many Years Ago She Was an Impecu.
NOUS Chorus Girl at Tony Pastors;
Now She Is Regular Finan.
cial Princess of Song.
VINO says music doesn't pay? Look
at Lillian RuSSell-if we may mention
her In the same breath with music.
When she sang for Tony Pastor she re-
celVed $50 week James C. Duff offered
her $500 week and she took 1t until
the Casino made 1t $500. H. Henry
french, who just about that time want
Ell TO drop in the Garden theater, New
YORK, some of the large profits of his
ancestral play-publishers, gave the fair
Lillian $500. This sufficed to keep her
vocal highness out of the poor house un-
til Canary & Lederer-George Lederer,
formerly of Wilkes-Barre you know
him. of course you dO--raised the limit
to a round thousand. Last of all, Alb
bey, Schoefel & Grau have made con-
tract with her at 81 800 a week. Dur
ing this entire period of fourteen years
Lillian Russell" according to one an
thority, has constantly increased her
salary, her popularity and her art. Nor
Is 1t to be assumed that she intends to
stop at the plane which she has now
reached. Her desire to be free from the
Casino contract was inspired by the
wish to get under the direction of our
grand opera impreSari. Lillian Russell
is woman Of tremendous ambition.
The popularimpression that she spends
her leisure in drinking champagne,
playing poker and looking out for an
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There is no person in the musical world
who works harder than Miss Russell.
Soon after breakfast she is at her music
teachers house, where she sings until
luncheon time A short siesta follows
that meal, and presently her carriage
is at the singing teachers door again
for another arduous lesson. Through"
out her London engagement Miss Rus
sell has been studying asSiduously un'
der the best English instructors Very
good: but is she worth 81, 500 q week on
her merits?
The event to which the music lovers
look forward with the greatest interest
is undoubtedly the American debut of
Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian Violinist.
The eminent virtuoso comes to this
country with his name and fame In
the world already established. He
can add nothing to his reputation as
an artist, for in his school he is abb
solutely without rival. ISaye was
born of musical family and received
his first instruction from his rather,
Nicholas Ysaye. After few years In
the famous conservatory at LieSe, he
studied under WieniawsN at Brussels.
About this time VieuXtemps heard him
audience was so enthusiastic and the
impression made on VieuXtemps so
great that he, in fit of admiration,
Jumped on the stage, kissed the young
vioinist and, without much regard for
metaphor, called him the star of his
school, upon whom the mantle of great
ness had fallen" Largely through
the old masters influence Ysaye was
furnished with pension by the
Belgian government and enabled TO
complete his studies in Paris. Since
that time his career has been one OF
almost uninterrupted public success. In
September, 1886, at the suggestion OF
NJ. Jeyaert, he was appointed high pro-
fessor at the Royal conservatory at
Brussels, where he successfully con-
tinued the school formerly presided
over by his two masters, Wieniawski
and VieuXtempS. The effects of his
close attention to this school are al
ready potent, and today the Brussels
conservatory boldly claims that 1t pro-
duces as great voilinists under the in
struction of Ysaye as the Paris con-
serVatory Of the school of Joachim. The
fact that he is to have the support OF
NJ. Aime Lachaune as solo pianist ana
accompanist in his American tour
should add largely to his success. La
chaume is an artist of fine intelligence
and admirable technique. He was a
pupil of Georges Matthias and de
Beriot, and received the first prize at
the Paris conservatoire in 1889. Miss
Theodore Pfafiin, the dramatic soprano,
completes this choice company, which
illustrates the old maxim OF Infinite
riches in little ROOM"
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In supplementary (thirO volume of
LISTS letters, the great pianist relates
an anecdote which, while omitted In all
the Mozart biographies, was told him
on the best authority at Prague. At
the first performance there of Titus"
the emperor, in whose honor the opera
had been composed, left the house
after the first act. The director, in
great CONSERVATION, hastened TO in
lorm Mozatt, WIN repiieu VainiS ~
mucn the Deter, uien we siiai H"'e
one donkey less ~ tiie 'he"'ei'
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Alien A brown, VI nos.oh mas S,'el 81,
his music library to the city. 1t will be
placed in one of the rooms of the Boston
Public library and be open for free use
and consultation. 1t Is one of the most
complete, If not the most complete, col
lection OF the klnu III the country: mere
are l,236 orchestra scores beetnoNeI,
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