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Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914
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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant
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ter with his undying Grasshopper andhis saucy Good Old Rebel ditties—and Ran Tucker, ofNoble Skewball and Mr. Johnsing recitative. Wonder- BELLES BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 209 ful was that refrain—and the action that accompanied it—when the great jurist sang of the immortal racehorse! Gray-Latham trolled his Eveline with great effect, but his hearerscould not readily accommodate themselves to the ingrainwags dropping into sentiment, as Mr. Wegg was wont to dointo poetry. The pretty and graciousMacmurdo sisters, Saidie andHennie, lent their good so-prano and alto to music ofthat day, and Hector Eaches—the gifted young painterwith the sunshine face—would sometimes run upfrom camp in his privatesjacket, a new sketch in hispocket, an old song in hisclear, strong throat and ahuge appetite a few inchesbelow it. The gayest of the Haxallhomes of that day was that ofthe Barton Haxalls. Itsdaughter. Miss Lucy, wasamong the most soughtof the younger set ofstylish and with mingled
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mrs. edward l. coffey(lucy haxall) society women. Handsome,geniality and savoir faire, shemade friends and held them. Not a prominent musi-cian herself. Miss Haxall loved music and was promoter ofmany concerts and other affairs combining music and charity.It was at her house that the Musical Club met most fre-quently. This grew out of the self-collected material of theMosaic. Washington, Myers and Randolph were its origina-tors, and it grew rapidly. It was an equally original club, 210 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES and if memory serves me, was likewise without organization,and had no officers. It collected the best musical material,quite in the same fashion that the Mosaic did the mental andthe humorous. Yet, some of its most useful members werenot Mosaics. One instance was Professor Thilow, a fineperformer on the violoncello; another, James Grant, whosevirile basso was a real feature, until the act of his own handput him beyond the pale. This club was the origin of many an
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