Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20

s. clined to overestimate
iI48I their own importance.
S me and my work. was
gwen as the excuse for a great deal of
the unhappiness they bring upon
themselves through ultra-sensitive-
ness, The article has been forgotten,
out the phrase me and my work" i'm
pressed itself upon our memory, and
IT has been interesting to try and trace
1t 20 certain extent. "Me and my
work are, of course, OF the greatest
importance to oneself. If one is mar
red, perhaps they are of half as much
Importance to ones better half. To
the other members of the family, per-
haps fourth is good average. OF
course, ones mother is interested in
ones success, but she is not nearly as
interested IN the work as she is in
the person, and in the person because
ne or she elongs to her (and if one
OF large family, you are but small
per cent OF her thoughts). Outside of
ones family me and my work." which
looms so large at a near view, be-
comes vastly minimized in perspec-
tive. The music of the musician, ex-
cept when he plays for his friends, is
10 them Of absolutely no importance,
and they do not spend much of their
spare time thinking about it. To the
pupils 1t is only of importance when
they are taking their lessons or prac-
ticlng, and they do not spend much
time thinking about it after their regu-
Ia! time is over. Out of sight, out of
mind, is the rule.
Musical people often wonder how
certain effects they have gained and
which have taken them unlimited
hours and patience to accomplish, can
make so little impression even upon
their own musical friends. 1t often
does make an impression, but most
Of the time the other musical friends
are also busy thinking about their own
work, themselves and their families,
and they soon forget the keenness of |
It, because they do not have time to |
live it over continually as the one
who has spent so much effort in gain
ING it. And the music of the most tai
fnted musician makes the very slight
est impression upon his unmusical
friends. Except insofar as it has been
instrumental in developing his char
scter, it does not touch their lives at
al, so is it any wonder that the man
who liked one of the Liszt Hun
garian Rhapsodies" which a friend of
bis played, asked him to please play
tor another friend that same little
thing which you played for me the
Pther. day!" 1t is sometimes quite en-
livenlng from humorous standpoint
and other times quite heartbreaking
Jolt to people to awaken to a realiza-
tion of how little their work means to
other people. Yet, upon the other
hand, how much does the other fel-
lows work mean to you? How many
minutes do you spend contemplating
your friend the vocalist or violinist
and how much does it mean to YOU
If he is in fine form or not? And how
much do musical people appreciate
and enjoy the marvels of electricity,
for example? And the friend who
spends his life in it, who works out
experiments which have taken him
days, and have given him the greatest
satisfaction? How much of an i'm
preston does this make upon his mu-
sical friends? How much do they think
scout his work2 They may mention
him to somebody else as sort of sci
entifc chap, but his work hardly rip
pies their surface. And he is probably
Just as much of a baby when it comes
to his music as the musical friends
are when it comes to electricity,
If we could only learn not to ex-
pect others to look at me and nv
work" from our own point of view, {
but from the same point of view with ]
which we look at the other fellow
better. idea of what to expect from
and his work, we would get a much ,
the rest of the world and still remain
on good terms with it. {
Mrs. Hazel Smith Eldripe. con- {
,tralto, and Miss Madge West, violin s
St, were heard in new roles last week,
when they created two of the roles in
the one-act musical play "a Record
Romance" written by the musical edi-
tor OF The Bee, and produced by the
omaha Woman's Press club at the
Blackstone hotel. Both are well known
in musical circles, but this was their
trst appearance in theatricals, when
not only their musical talent but dra-
matlc ability as we'll was called upon.
not only made good with the
Sudience as the cordiality of their re-
ception proved, but also with the
most particular critic the author. Mr..
Hugh Wallace and Mr.. E. M. Sunder-
land are known in both musical and
dramatic circles, and Mr.. Sunderland
contributed some acceptable accom-
paniments for Miss West. 1t isn't al
ways that an author of any sort is
fortunate enough to pick out so sat-
isfactory a cast, from both musical
and dramatic standpoints, for local
production, and to find such we'll /
suited music from a local composer