The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-01
ANNUAL RECITAL
BY MRS, TUCKER
Monday Mueio Club Me- bers Are
Privileged Last Night t. Hear Her
In Program Of Much
Merit.
THE OLD FOLK SONGS
Mrs. fuckers Second Group Com
prised All of These Songs of
the Old Days OF the
South.

SO far as the audience was concern
ed. boundary lines were lost sight of,
geographical distances were set at
naught, and ever the hands OF time
were turned back. 1t was not a form
al recital at all, it was Just a few
friends and neighbors, with a stranger
mere and there. who happened to drop
In to the big house" The stage
melted into the big drawing room OF
the Old southern mansion, and neigh
DORIS, friends and strangers, who hap
pened to drop in, a%pplauded, laughed
and even felt their threats getting
choky as they caught the spirit and
tfle mood Of h daughter Of the "big
mousse who was SO charmingly enter
tanning them. There was the charm,
the graciousness, the hospitality of the
Old south that Hopkinson Smith has
so delightfully."- woven into all Of his
stories, and that some few in the aud
fence who claimed Dixie for a birth
place, know about first hand.
Mrs. Collingwood Tucker gave her
annual recital before the members of
the Monday Music club last night.
The auditorium was filled from the
front row to the back with the friends
OF Mrs. Tucker. whom she delights
every year. Mrs. fuckers appearance
was the signal for applause, and as
the ripple died away, the audience
didn't have to wait long for some
thing characteristic Of their enter
tafner.
I'm always so glad to see so many
OF o out. I wonder each year if
you'll ever come to hear me again."
On this score Mrs. Tucker need
have no worry. Keokuk will come as
long as she will entertain them.
Tho Program is Different.
The program was different from
the usual program. The first part was
composed Of a group Of wonderfully
attractive little songs. One of these,
Of course, was by a Keokuk composer,
Maurice Klein. And his right ear
must have burned %furiously, even out
in little old New York, at the compli-
mentary things Mrs. Tucker was say
ing about him, and at the compliments
a Keokuk audience was paying his
composition. In fact, the audience liked
it so well, they asked Mrs. Tucker to
sing again might Has a Thousand
Eyes" Mrs. Tucker never sang bet.
ter in her life than she did in Roy
LdillCuI ollllLH Wy "eS blIu, d
dear little lullaby, and Jessie l.. Gay.
nor's 1.-The Top"
AS long as Mrs. Tucker used a din.
ner smile, in speaking Of her pro-
gram, perhaps she won't object to the
use Of another. Did you ever 60 to
dinner, at the home of II who is a
noted cake baker, and a good cook,
generally, but especially, good as a
M In Vp1~1ovO A~J 5II~f r~ ,.;~
every course, but down in your heart,
weren't you hoping that the cake
would be served soon? That was
just the way with Mrs. fuckers pro-
gram last night. You enjoyed to the
utmost the first part, but You did so
hope that the cake would be served
soon, and when it was, then you were
happy.
The Darky Folk Songs.
The second part of the program
comprised the songs which Mrs. Tuck
err gives better than anything, the old
darby folk songs. Nanny. the dear,
black faced, but white souled. ample
Tapped old lady who guided her mis-
tresses' children with devotion, was
surely given her due in Natalie Whit
lSu i . IL III . All "
der Gal" One could just see the
dear old soul as she begged her
charge not to cry, and as she urged
her On to better things. And the
choky feeling that came with the last
verse was a real tribute. The inter-
probation which Mrs. Tucker gave
this song was wonderful. Perhaps it
was no better than that given KatheE-
inc Shockwell Hazards eli Boy"
in which by the range OF her voice,
Mrs. Tucker portrayed the little boy
who has done his chores. answering
his mistress as she asks him about his
work. while he walks farther away
and over the hill. The "yeth mann
with its whiny, p%laintive note Of the
negro was lr~reproachable. Mrs.
Tucker heard both composers in Chi
cago interpret these songs, and she
pays them the highest compliment,
saying how beautifully 1t is done by
them. She modestly declares that she
can't do it nearly as well as they car
but Keokuk will reserve it's Judgment.
The Song From the Valley.
why Adam Sinned" and THE Ole
March VIM" were delightfully."- inter
preted. And then there was the old
folk tale of the Shenandoah valley.
Amt it Hard" which is given with
the p~laintive note of the negro song.
the infections and the little trip in
the rhythm.
Mrs. Tucker sang two spirituals. 81
Wanter be Ready was the spiritual
with a swing, and life that for a
moment made one forget the purport
of the words in the swing of the tune.
1t was religion of the camp meetin'
type sure enough. The other n
steal Away" was of the somber.
truly deeply spiritual type.