The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
If Peace Means the Disbanding of the Camps, Shall Feel Lost Without the Inspiration I Have
 Received From Singing For Our Brave Soldier Boys
By DOLLY pALRyMPLE.

lf F any one of us has felt that music in the camps has not meant a great
 deal to our soldier boys, Just drop in moment and chat with pretty Miss Eleanore Cochran, the gifted singer who is charming large audiences round at the Lyric.
 First, let me tell you about Miss Cochran, and then I'll let her tell you about singing in the camps.
 It is so seldom that we have the pleas- ure of hearing a real grand opera "star" in vaudeville that we sort of pinch ourselves in order to realize that 1t is really, truly, a fact-but here is Miss EIeanore Cochran, who has sung not only in this country in grand opera but abroad, where she has received the most beautiful appreciation of her art, regaling us with her lovely voice. Miss Cochran's voice is a dramatic soprano, in tonal quality beautiful, while her phrasing and interpretation is artistic.
 | But don't let this scare you away for Miss Cochran, who thoroughly un- derstands the art of programme making does not sing a lot of high brow classical music but regales us with popular music of a high order.
 l Besides her lovely voice, Miss Coch- ran is lovely of face and form' ner blond beauty, refined and artistic, oe- speaks her charming personality, anu l she is a credit to the operattc stage. where she received her first laurels' which she now wears so gracefully. l At the piano is MT. Eric zardo-a young Italian pianist of wonderful ac- icomplishment, marvellous techhlque land most attractive manner. uo "act" Gas we say in vaudeviile) IS real fly delight to the eye as well as to the ear, and Miss Cochran ana MT IZardo are to be congratulated upon tne clever manner in which they have maos the transition from grand opera anu tconcert stage to popular vaudeville. 1 Chatting with Miss Cochran yester- Iday about her work, she enthus1astical- lly told me of the great pleasure she Ihas derived during the war from slng- ling for our soldier boys at the varlous \ elcantonme rents.
 If anybody tells you that music hasn't been a marvellous factor i'll the Hives of our soldiers, don't believe them IT have never seen such appreciation Tn my life as those boys show and I've sung at very HedifS eNoiS S'HP m "
 United States.
 And the soldiers like good music ltoo." Miss Cochran continued For in lstance, I know it would surprise most
 people for me to say that the Bird tSong from 'Pagliaeci' and the 'Vissi
 Darte' from 'Tosca' were appreciated by a thousand soldier boys in camp audi
 ence, but l assure you it is true; of
 course, they like popular music, too and by that 1 mean music which IS
 good, at the same time like The
 Long, Long Trail for instance. which
 by the way, was written by two south
 ern boys whom I had the pleasure oi
 meeting. MT. Zardo orchestrated the song and 1t was rece1ved royalty. Sol
 dier boys wrote rhymes and sent then
 to me in appreciation of my singing
 they were just too splendid for words
 and really if peace means the disband-
 ing of the camps l shall feel lost with
 out the inspiration I have received from
 our soldiers. An audience composed
 of soldiers is different from any other audience in the world-there never was
 such enthusiasm and such eagerness tc hear music; it seems just touch O. |