Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1913-06-03
mrs. ELEANOR BREWER
AND DAUGHTERS HERE
MEMBERS OF FAMOUS SINGING
LADIES' ORcHESTRA-GlVE
ENTERTAINMENT.

= Ilght years ago next month the
writer, with many other citizens of
Lewistown, journeyed to Moore to at
tend a Fourth of July celebration at
the Rock creek bench metropolis. The
program was carried out at a church
and one of the features was a vocal
duet by two little Lewistown girls,
who pleased the audience with the
ditty, Il Feel Just Like Turtle
Dove" The most distinguishing physi-
cal feature of one of these kiddies
was a pair of beautiful big blue eyes
and of the other an abundance of
Titan locks. The latter also favored
the audience with a violin solo, the
fiddle, of course, being of a quality
suited to her years and with the in
evitable squeekiness of such an in
strument.
Sunday evening two handsome
young ladies, with their mother as
accompanist, favored a few of their
old Lewistown friends with a concert
program of SURPRISING excellence at
Culver's opera house. Miss Ruth
Brewer, the child whose big blue eyes
were remembered longer than her
singing at the Moore celebration, now
very beautiful young woman, was
one OF the performers. The other kid
who had the squeeky violin at Moore
| is Miss Grace Brewer, and their
mother is Mrs. Eleanor Brewer, long
in charge of the department of music
at the high school, The sisters had
made marked progress in their musi
cal work by the time they left Lew.
lstoWn two years ago and all three
are now members of the Dunbar Sing.
ing Ladies' Orchestra of Chicago, one
| OF the highest class Lyceum musical
organizations now touring. The
Misses Brewer have had the advan-
take of the best instruction obtain
able in this country in training for
their professional work, and reports
| that have reached Lewistown during
the past year indicated that they had
made wonderful progress to have
won such success before the public,
| yet the work of these two LewistOwn
girls was revelation to the friends
who heard them Sunday evening. Be-
| fore arriving here Mrs. Brewer had
received offers from local managers
to give series of entertainments
while In the city, but she declined
them all and the visitors have been
spending the time in resting and
social enjoyment.
Miss Grace Brewer, who is a bright,
particular star in the Ladies' orches.
ira, has acquired a wonderful mastery
of the violin. She plays the most diff
ficult selections, such, for instance, as
Ovid Musin's Mazurka, it having been
given here by the best of the violin
lists who have visited Lewistown, with
all the abandon and rollicking swing
of master. and the other selections
were equally well done. She grew up
with a violin in her hands, and she
| also had the talent. Added to these
things, she had the industry, without
which even genius is nothing, and SO
it is not really surprising that she
should have developed, under the di.
rection of noted master, into the
finished artist Of today. She is also
the trombone ,soloist of the Ladies'
Orchestra and she was especially for.
tunate In receiving her finishing in.
struction on this difficult instrument
from Arthur Pryor, the worlds great.
est trombonist. Her best selection on
the trombone was the Rosary, her
tones being exquisite. In addition to
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