Beatrice Stuart Weller and Company

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Beatrice Stuart Weller and Company



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A GREAT artist is born, not made—and with rare good judgment those who have organized The Beatrice Stuart Weller Company, have been able to bring together in this organization three individuals who are all natural artists in their respective lines.  Combining instrumental and vocal music with graphic art and strong educational features this company, during the past two seasons, has already won rapidly a place in the top rank of standard lyceum and chautauqua attractions.




For over an hour Miss Weller held her audience spellbound as she drew pictures with black and colored crayons, most of them humorous, some reminiscent, some pathetic, and all the time keeping up an interesting talk as her fingers rapidly formed the illustrations.  Her picture Old Folks at Home which she drew as Mr. Leo sang the song with accompaniment by Miss Daykin on the violin, made a real hit.  The entertainment closed with Home Sweet Home after the same manner.  Many remained after the program to meet the company and congratulate them on the evening's entertainment.—
Reporter, Nashua, (Ia.).


Miss Beatrice S. Weller of New York, gave a very interesting talk before the Mothers' Association on 'The How and Why of Picture Making.'  Miss Weller is prominent as a teacher of art.  Her address proved to be unusually entertaining.  The crayon sketches were executed with lightning rapidity and it was wonderful to see how quickly apparently dull colors grew under the trained hand into beautiful pictures.—
Courier News, Plainfield, N. Y.

The entertainment given by the Weller Trio was the best on the course.  As a chalk-talker Miss Weller has had no equals among the many who have appeared here during the past five years.—W. F. Ferguson, Gregory, S. Dak.



PERSONNEL
Miss Beatrice Stuart Weller—whom Ralph Bingham, the noted lyceum humorist in his customary delightful style says Is sure some CARTOONIST.

Miss Weller is easily classed as one of the best cartoonists on the platform.  Her pleasing personality and happy smile win her audience before she begins to deftly depict phases of human nature as she has seen it in various parts of the union.  She accompanies her cartoons with a running fusilade of comment.  Miss Weller's landscapes, drawn as an accompaniment to her charming stories, are gems of art and suggest to the connoisseur, rare, original talent.  In addition to this she gives some of the serious facts about the subject of art, along with her humorous work so that one feels his time well spent after hearing her.

Mr. Ralph Leo, Baritone, a singer whom the New York Musical Observer (in a lenghty notice which appears on another page) recently said, gives every indication—in his singing and general interpretation—that he will have a particularly bright future as an American concert singer.

Miss Ruth Daykin, Violinist, whose solo and ensemble work shows a high degree of natural talent and a thorough training in the fundamentals of her art.


The Beatrice Stuart Weller Co. gave every patron his money's worth and more.  Music lovers were more than pleased with the work of the baritone and the violinist.  Miss Weller as a cartoonist is in a class by herself.  She dipped into both the ridiculous and the sublime, chasing the retrospective melancholy of one moment away with the hearty laugh of the next.—
Oakland (Ia.) Acorn.


The concert given last evening was very interesting and enjoyable.  The baritone proved a genuine find and the possessor of one of the most pleasing voices ever heard here.
The violinist is most delightful.  Miss Weller closed the evening's entertainment with a series of cartoons and sketches, in which she gave proof of genuine talent.—

Daily Republican, Clay Centre, Kan.





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MISS WELLER AT WORK ON THE PLATFORM

The Minerva Club held its November meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria.  'Art' was the subject of the day.  Miss Beatrice Weller was the principal speaker and gave one of her instructive 'Chalk-Talks' in her own charming and original way.—
New York Herald.


Miss Beatrice Weller was the last speaker on the morning's program (N. E. A., 1908).  Her address was, 'Motif and Method of Drawing.'  It was one of the most interesting talks given, and she received the closest attention from all present.—
Cleveland, (Ohio) Press.





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MISS RUTH DAYKIN Violinist
The following copy of Prof. Steckelberg's recommendation of Miss Daykin's work should be sufficient to convince all music lovers.

Feb. 12, 1912.  To my friends:—Miss Daykin is one of the most talented and musical pupils that has ever attended my classes.  Her solo work is at all times most entertaining.  (Signed) CARL-FREDERIC STECKELBERG, Head of String Dept., Uni. School of Music, Lincoln, Neb.


The Weller Trio pleased more people than any number in the course.  Miss Weller was especially good.  The work of Miss Daykin was most pleasing and the baritone charmed all with his sweet rich voice.—
Sissiton, (S. Dak.) Weekly Standard.



PERSONAL MENTION
I am somewhat familiar with the entertainments given by chalk-talk artists, and I have no hesitation in classing Miss Weller as one of the very best, both in her artistic and linguistic ability.—Mrs. Austin N. Palmer, Chairman of Art, Minerva and Rainy Day Club, New York City.

I want to thank you personally for the very interesting and entertaining 'Chalk-Talk' you gave to the Chicago Woman's Club of New York at the Professional Women's League.  We were equally charmed with the genial personality, pleasing humor, and the high character and quality of art you presented.—Mrs. John R. Gregg. N. Y. City.

I want to thank you on behalf of our entertainment committee and our members.  Your chalk illustrations for the 'Nonsense Songs' were exceptionally clever and waranted the instantaneous applause they brought forth.

Very truly yours,
Alvin Gillett,
Social Secretary to the West Side Y. M. C. A. of New York City.

NASHUA, IOWA.  (Before the District Meeting of Iowa Club Women, Eleventh District.)

Miss Beatrice Weller gave a talk on Drawing in the Public Schools, which was one of the best things of the day.

Dr. Atchison was followed by Miss Beatrice Weller of New York City, who gave an interesting address and chalk-talk on Drawing in the Public Schools.  Miss Weller is full of her subject and has the happy faculty of communicating her enthusiasm to others.  She is a bright little lady that can talk as well as draw, and her reasons why drawing should be taught in the public Schools were eagerly listened to and accepted without question.  Then Miss Weller stepped to the board and began to illustrate the various points, talking as fast as she could and drawing as fast as she talked, compelling the attention of both the eyes and the ears of the convention.—(Meeting of Federated Club Women of Iowa, Tenth Dist., Independence, Iowa.)

I desire to express my high appreciation of the ability and service of Miss Weller, who was one of the best and most appreciated instructors at our county institute for two consecutive years.  Miss Weller is a teacher and lecturer on Drawing and Art.  She is practical and a speaker of rare and pleasing ability.—L. L. Himes, Supt. of Clarion County, Pa.

One of the best numbers appearing on the Union College Course was the Weller Trio.  Their entertainment was a delight from start to finish.  Miss Weller is a cartoonist of marked ability and carried her audience with her thru many humorous and romantic scenes, accompanying her illustrations with a run of rapid fire comments that kept the audience in an uproar.  As a Chalk-Talker she is great.  Miss Daykin as violinist will satisfy the most critical. Her tones are rich and her technique a revelation.  We liked them all.  We want them again.—A. H. Evans, Mgr., Lincoln, Neb.




THE PRESS SAYS

MISS BEATRICE WELLER WIELDS CHALK WITH A MASTER HAND

Not since the famous cartoonist, Frank Beard, visited Washington in the middle seventies has a local audience been entertained with a more interesting and amusing chalk talk than that given at the west side auditorium last night by Miss Beatrice Weller.
Whether illustrating some little conceit of her own, illuminating one of Riley's rhymes of childhood with appropriate scenery or with a few rapid strokes depicting the seven ages of man in one figure, she is equally at home, suiting the word to the picture, the picture to the word.—

Washington, Pa. Observer.


The Weller Concert Co. gave a very high class entertainment.  Miss Weller is a remarkably capable cartoonist and a charming reader.  Much of the material she gave was purely original and sparkled with thot gems, witticisms and sentiment.  The baritone captured everyone with his splendid voice.  The violinist was effective in coaxing rare melodies from the strings.  This is one of the best companies ever in Stockton.—
Rooka County Record, Stockton, Kan.

Mr. Ralph Leo, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has a baritone voice of great promise and while in New York recently opportunity was given him to sing at several prominent events.  Among these may be mentioned the National Council of Jewish Women at Delmonico's on February 11th; The Rainy Day Club at the Hotel Astor, also on February 11th; at Mrs. Horace Moran's for the Home for Crippled Children, February 12th; on February 16th, at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park; February 20th, at the American Criterion Society, at the Plaza; on February 21st, at the Iowa Society Banquet held at the Arkwright Club; on Sunday, February 22nd, at the Unitarian Church, Lenox Avenue and 126th Street.  Some of the principal numbers in which Mr. Leo was heard in these recitals were Damrosch's Danny Deever, Mother o' Mine by Tours, Malgré Moi by Pfeffer, How's My Boy?  by Homer, Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms (Irish), When Love is Kind (Old Irish), the Prologue to Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, etc., and his singing and general interpretation of these numbers gave every indication that he has a particularly bright future in store for him as an American concert singer.  The Musical Observer, New York, March, 1914.

I wish to express our appreciation of the Weller Trio.  This company is the thing in Lyceum Course work, varied, popular and educational.  It has something good for every one.  More of this kind is what you want and what we need.  In five years we have not had a more satisfactory program given our patrons.  Miss Weller's symmetric volubility of hand and tongue is a circus, observation car and art gallery combined.  Her choice of themes and lively earnestness are commendable.  This entertainment was par excellent.

Yours truly,
F. S. Barber, Secty., Onida, So. Dakota




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MR. RALPH LEO
Baritone

Mr. Ralph Leo is a baritone singer of unusually fine temperament.  He has a voice so beautifully sympathetic and so well balanced that as he sings one forgets about him and only hears the song and feels the spirit of the song.  This is indeed a splendid quality.  His voice is rich and clear and with a magnetic quality that is both natural and only possible by much culture and training.  His songs were all enjoyed heartily.  Those in which his splendid voice was exhibited were Danny Deever—by Damrosch; Lehr deine Wang—by Jensen; and How's my Boy—Homer—
The Anamosa, (Ia.) Eureka.