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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917 ' 3 "The hall was quite large, sumptu- ously decorated and the audience was big. I did the best I could and added two encores, but when I made glides it felt as if I was riding over soap. The fiddle was covered with dampness, but Inckily I had on comparatively new | strings so that no accident happened Wilmette Violin Virtuoso Coming Home Milan Lusk Expected from European War Zone Soon--Experiences Many and Varied--Writes Letter to Father Detailing Adventures. N \ \ \ \ \ N N N N N N N N N N N N \ \ rior 5 in that way. The 54th regimental | N N 1 Many residents of Winnetka will re-| Was cold and raw and 1 shivered un- orchestra had a couple of numbers \ \ i call Milan Lusk, the violin virtuoso | comfortably in my raincoat. 1 kept and the Kapelmeister was quite elated \ N | who in August, 1913, gave his farewell | Pacing up and down the vestibule of | 7° my playing. After the concert | N N 4 recital under the auspices of the Wil-| the train to keep warm. Later it be- we sat around a while in the hall and | N N { mette Woman's club before departing | 8an to rain and when I got to Oder- I ate my supper ravenously. I had to \ N Mil for Europe. Mr. Lusk is a graduate | berg it just poured. This kept up for be with the company and we did not | N \ rons of the New Trier High school and has | the rest of the day. aliperse antil 2:00 oo 0. \ \ new. several times appeared before the Wil-| . "I will never forget this town for I Takes Trip Through Trenches \ N this mette public. He has been studying| had an unpleasant experience here; *'-% afternoon of the next day T|RN N rived and concertizing abroad since he left [| which for good reasons I must not re- went with the lieutenant to a near-by N N com: his home in September, 1913, and now, late. I am glad to say that I got out forest called 'Zigeunerwald' We were N N laced unless prevented by the danger of the| of this town with a fine of five crowns. joined by severd) officers reviewed N N from. existing submarine warfare, he ex-| The population around here seems to the drilling grounds and got inside of \ \ | pects to return to his native land| be Polish and I understand this lan- the trenches. 1 z0t quite wir idea bow N \ ewell early in the spring and as soon as pos-| guage better than German. it looks on the battle front and from \ N ves sible arrange for his "debut. > Esosed Sorin Deen, the offers, Who hed Seon aitdh fe. \ \ ts Plays with Great Orchestras. At last 1 got to Biala and was | yearned a lot of what it means to be N N ia While in Europe he made his home | cordially received by Lieutenant Hahn | ; so1dier today Later I was photo- N N col in Pisek, Bohemia, and took private | at the station. Getting into a carriage | yrapheq with the officers in the N N gh | lessons with the famous Sevcik, who | We Were hurriedly driven to the first | {1onches and will send you views as |N N yt hotel, 'Kaiserhof. Th fish N N pecid was Kubelik's teacher. He also at-| 1otel, "Kaiserhof. ere was a fishy | goon ag possible. N N ves tended the Meisterschule in Vienna.| Smell in the hallway but everything| «poward seven in the evening we \ N ove During the war he made over forty | Otherwise was clean and very elegant. | were back at the 'Kaiserhof' Follow- | N \ . ca Below 1 had dinner and there met the ing a short chat after supper, I bade \ \ v af tenor, Jenik, from Prague Opera, a| them good night and goodbye, for the | N N i W fine, sociable fellow, highly talented next morning I left for Prague. On \ \ ond and unaffected but in unfortunate Cir-| my return trip I experienced some N \ : ead cumstances, His main role used to hardships. My passport was rigidly N N . the be in Tosca' and in' 'The Bartered | examined before I boarded the train, N N 1 Bride' but now since the war broke and on the way food was scarce. N N e nd out he was called to the colors. Food Restrictions Enforced. N N imitd Having traveled two days I felt| wag tg the food question, I want to | N N pl rather tired and I turned into bed| gay that I have had some ordinary | N N a early. It stopped raining in the MOrN- | «Kriegmeals.' Just simple, ordinary | N N 4 ing and everything seemed quite damp grub. War is war and one must get \ \ -- and sticky. The fiddle also suffered used to everything these sad times. |N \ -- from the dampness, the strings CON- | Anyone eating meat on 'meatless' days N \ ox 164 tinually breaking. In the evening had | js fined 100 crowns and more. Not |N N 1 Subper in the officers' mess room (here | oniy is one limited to bread but a N N «4 called menage). This was an unique jiu is put on tobacco. As I do not \ \ NG experience. I sat at an oblong table smoke I give my share to my land-|N N and all around me were officers, most | 15rd who is an old soldier and appre- \ N of them Bohemians. As their guest I ciates it very much. N N DEP N \ \ \ N \ N N \ \ N \ N \ N N N N N N N N N N \ N N N N N N N "N \ \ N N N N N N \ \ N \ RN N \ 2 4 pearance. In our minds we still hear of course, been in my mind" and red days. gh | ich, nes he hantin " vy | fe me Ml jes ot is, ons ping these conditions can be controlled Little Bronze Boy, there are roads. to EGGS FOR SETTING 1 wld . 8 y and improved, they will be kept make 15 for $1.25. Rhode Island Reds best y 4 Wienawski). Another feature of his actively in mind by those in com- Wi rere X de Island Reds be | art he showed in the grand D-major mand" Through the selfish tangles of hate nter Layers Call or mail order. . concerto by Tschaikowski. Brilliant The adjutant general's office of the| ead pride. sack WINNETKA EGG FARM i passages, chromatic double stops, War Department also acknowledges oo ne on, ough my purpose 955 Wind = T hen il t i clear and clean chords Rowed from his receipt of the resolutions and advises T ky th a=b des' innet'sa, 111. instrument like beautifully polished that they have been carefully noted. 0 Bnd e en y my comrades gems. : James Hamilton Lewis, senator from 2 1 3] . A Letter From War Zone. Illinois, and George Edmund Foss, rep- Tn E. Bowen. - : : Mr. Lusk writes home every week resentative in congress from the 10th ile A 3 but letters travel sixty days or more district, have also expressed their| ADVERTISING PAYS CLEANERS WANTED 10 RENT § before reaching their destination. They pleasure at the interest taken in Na- Returns received from a small dis- a 4 are censored first in Austria and then tional affairs by the citizens of Wil-| play advertisement that ran in 3 in England. Any illusion to condi- mette. the Winnetka Weekly Talk, three 6 or 7 room houses. We 1 | 3 | 3 : Concert for Regiment. 10 the hall and came just in time to ure of using their car at once, not hav- lecting taxes for the past sev- W. S. BELL Winnetka 957 H The professor delegated me and so | see the soldiers washing the floors of | . t it th or more--Adv eral years for the village, is in A. B. CASEY 3 on the next morning I left Pisek and | the theater. It was a mighty damp, | '08 t© Wait a mon x : : Fg Milan Lusk--Wilmette's premier vio- lin virtuoso, who has been studying in Europe past three years. appearances in all parts of Austria. Four of his appearances were with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and one appearance with the Tonkuenstler Orchestra in Vienna. On one occasion he played for the soldiers in the fight- ing zone in Galicia. One of the leading newspapers in Prague, "Narodni Politika," in August, 1916, had the following criticism: Worth While Criticism. " "One recalls with pleasure these beautiful performances of this young but distinguished artist, who already during the last season gave over thirty concerts for the benefit of the 'Red Cross." The tall, slender figure of the charming young American gained for itself a general feeling of sympathy with its modest and unobstrusive ap- tions in Austria contained in the let- ters is obliterated by the censor. Here is one of his letters: "Dear Parents: Most all the pupils of the Sevcik colony are gone. Some of them who happened to be of the entente nationality were interned at the beginning of the war. The pro- fessor, therefore, has plenty of time to devote to me. The other day he gave me nearly two hours' coaching on Mach's Second Sonata. There are six of these and I intend to take them all in. The professor is a fine in- terpreter of Bach. A few days ago First Lieutenant Hahn telegraphed from Galicia to Professor Seveik that he should send a violinist to Biala, Galicia, to play for the 54th regiment, stationed at that place, which is two days' journey from Pisek. at six o'clock p. m. I was in Brun, the capital of Moravia. This city is quite rebuilt and resembles Vienna consid- erably. The German element is much stronger in Moravia than in Bohemia. I put up at the Bohemian hotel 'Slavie' and had a good supper. I got up at five in the morning and hurried to the railroad station. The weather partook of all the edibles, and they were very fine. Dines with Fighting Men. "It was a strange sensation to be seated among all these Austrian war- riors. Hahn, whom I have known well in Pisek, introduced me to all present. Friend Jenik sat next to me and we had a jolly good time. This was re- peated twice a day during my stay in Biala. Officers coming late to meals | had to pay twenty hellers to the Red Cross as a penalty. All kinds of jokes were kept circulating around the table, and there was a jovial time for every- one regardless of the future. "Next morning I went to Frau Huebler's house to do some rehears- ing. She is my accompanist. The people here are much more affected than in Bohemia. A good deal of bowing and flattering speeches pre- 2 x. ER A conception of Milan Lusk as con- ceived by a celebrated' Prague caric- aturist. vail. I am getting acquainted with their etiquette and I think I know how to behave even to the kissing of the ladies' hands. So after making my compliments to the lady, I got started with Mrs. Huebler, who is about forty and greatly resembles a certain lady friend of mine in Wilmette. She plays the piano well but we should have re- hearsed yesterday, because to read off at sight a difficult accompaniment is no easy stunt. But we had another rehearsal .in the afternoon. Makes Hit with Soldiers. "I was driven in an officer's carriage wet day outside and added to this the moisture from this, washing on the in- side, the atmosphere was something fierce, as you may imagine. Nothing can be more ruinous to the virtuoso's appearance than to soak the floors be- fore the concert. But it was too late to stop it. Heat is not so bad but such excessive moisture is a calamity. "Sometime ago I sent you a carica- ture of myself. It was published in one of the first magazines in Prague. I have a good prospect of getting a Red Cross medal. With this I close with much love. "Yours, Milan." RESOLUTIONS APPROVED National Leaders Acknowledge with Thanks Receipt of Wilmette Docu- ments Adopted in Recent Rally. That the resolutions presented and adopted at the patriotic raily held in Wilmette a week ago last Friday, copies of which were forwarded to Washington, struck a responsive chord in the hearts and minds of the leaders of the Nation has been demonstrated by the letters of acknowledgment re- ceived this week by Reverend Frank E. Wilson, the instigator of the rally. and prime mover in the adoption of the resolutions. A card of thanks has been received from President Woodrow Wilson, and a letter of acknowledgment from Sec- retary of War Baker in which he states that "the situation to which these resolutions are addressed has, INDOOR BALL GAME Winnetka all-stars will play the Ev- anston Olympic club Saturday evening, March 3, at Community house. A good game is expected. PROMPT DELIVERY The Weihe Motor Co. announcs the possibility of immediate delivery of Haynes cars. This is the first time in several years such service has been possible. This has been made possible by the fact that Mr. Weihe, always desiring to sell service besides cars, purchased a number of these beautiful cars dur- ing the week of the Auto Show, and these cars are now in storage. Should a purchaser of a Haynes car buy at once, they will have the pleas- IN LUULLLLLLLL LL LLL LLL LLL LLL EEL Td ZL rds, Get an Estimate for your Spring House Decorating, from a careful and thorough mechanic, before: higher prices prevail:= : Phone Wilmette 909-M LULL LLL LL LLL LLL LT Ld 2777 777777 \ N N \ RN Boy artist's young A speaking likeness of Miss Moody's | Scout statuette, nephew, win Quinn, a top grade Boy Scout of Kansas City, Missouri, posed while on a recent visit at the Moody home on Greenwood avenue, Wilmette. for which the Master Ed- RZ ULL Re 77 The Man of Tomorrow. Little Bronze Boy of the fine salute, Type of the man that the boy must be, Gather me in as a new recruit For the cause of the noble, the kind, the free. 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