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mendously înteresting. The head of the family, so to speak, is Mrs. Helen Travis Weston who leads such a busy if e that an interviewer would almost have to hire an airpiane to overtake ber in her daily.travels., th is in charge- of >piano ýwork' in th.public schools -of- Raviia, Highland Park. and Kenilworth and. teaches piano at Royceîniore school ini Evans- toni and bas private*Jessotis besides. 'Her day begiis at 7 :30 a. m. and quite often. goes on tili 9 pý . r. She lias heen do- ing this for the' past .eighit years, and the urge, is not liard to. find. Thiere are. three' lively \Xestoîi younigst ers to educate, a' home to keep up, and ýa talent for music that nust find expres- sion. This talent xvas also grantéd to an- other member of the family, E.stelle Pliiléo, Mrs. Xeston'1s sister. -Iii the Case of .Miss Phil1leo, the urge, for ex-ý I Mi~ ~ i CO~FCSEF~ o~ s-r~,~.& ---- - .15 - lu 3-- CLa 11911L "I, lie tere in bed growling the song to myseif and playing tbe accompani- ment in the air with my fingers."! Noth- ing formai, about this delightf ni west- ern niusician, yo u can see. Sbe refuses to get dignified and- paint a word pic- ture of herseif earnestly composing on the piano bencb. out a littie later in the con versatoan - It is this saine gift of informality that has made ber platform appearances 50o engaging and hermelodies so irre- sistible. *She'delighted an oldneighbor out. West by telling hum she timed the, rhythm of one of, her compositions to the hoof. beats of h is: beloved nag as. he, passed by, hér cabin window. And Wblen she is - appearing in a recital, whicb she does e ither with -a cowboy ballad singer or with a poet, she gra- ciously.teils -her, audience* hôweach. melody happened to corne into being. Her concerts, "Setting the, West -to I. 0F v1~N~-rK~ ly for the Colorado Cowboys singing over the NBC . network, and played in recitals in the City witb occasional excursions out' in the state. Fier compositions since 1917, when slie first begafn to pubi.ish,, include that instantané'ous success, "0u hr h West Begins," "Round Ipwibwords by Badgér Clark, the poet well knownl [ for bis "Sun and Saddle I-.ather' book of verse, ."Trails." *witb words froni "'Turne Worn Trails," "Des ert Dawn," %witb1, words by &.,Enest Cadie; "Farther West,", ith %words hy- Ros- coe K. Stockton, andsongs tb wbich she bas herseif written tbe* words;- "Colorado Cabin" and "Away. Out W est ..in Wyoming." In addition she has composed the war-tîme march "4Spirit of tbe States" and set the wvords of Henry Van Dyke to music, "HomneAgain." RadlioMeIlodeem Fansous, Her radio melodies, as yet unpub- lisbed, bave proved equally popular. 6ýClippitir Yippity" was used by NBC as a signature song for the Colorado Cowboys, and other irresistible melodies were "Powder River Blues," "Little 'Cayuse and Me," "Montana for Me," andt s0 on. Pocatello, Idaho, woke up one morning to find itself famou b- cause of ber song, "Rodeo Stella, the Pride o' Pocatello." Keith McLeod, who is now programn director for NBC, but was formerly a Denver. man, did an arrangement of "'Round Up Lullaby" for violins and voices which bas' been popular for years 1. This radio. work was an in tensive one, Miss Philleo recollects. "They asked me if I could comipose two melo- dies a week, and I said I could try. I didn't think I could do it, but 1 did, I'd play around with one set of verse f rom Sunday to Wednesday after I'd get through teacbing for the day. Then I'd take.f romn Wednesciay to Saturday for the second. I kept this up for tbree months,- and 12 of. those songs havé lived."1 .Miss Pbilleo is engaged at p .resent in composing songs for children for she considers herseif a chjld's special-. ist ini music. In this she once more AND 9ljassware AT, DISCOUNTS 0F 5:0% * 10% EVANSTON 1636 Orrington Av.. and tbink." H It might sceen as if lying in. the sun In 1926 and tbinking were conducive to coni- leans to er posing the type of western melodies en's clubs that have made ber famous, but she of its Col says, pot. "I don't think of anything Sherman. particular," shesays.' The secret cornes appeared she ttirned up in New Or- ago and unless Septemberof 19, rtertain the Federated Wom- proves very enticing indced,- ber cab. convention in especial lionor niay miss ber for another year. Ch lorado president. Mrs. John cagoland too bas its charm, .sbe find And since, then she b as especially Winnetka where' the sun in recitals at Cheyenne, in almost as good as. the Denver sun 1 I 338S.