The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-17
]. W. Foley Writes Newsy Letter
From CaIifornia-Met Many N. D.
People There-HoW Tourists Live

/ for long. They seemed to Tight shy q
tunes. They sing close to them n
/ all around them, but as soon as n
get on one they get off again and start
to suffer over. Me for the simpler
melodies. After all the tumult and
shouting of the higher stuff Is over,
how refreshing and delightful Annie
Laurie or Home sweet Home or Last
Rose of Summer sounds. That's where
you get right down to the real heart OF
the hearers. But it va all very IN
teresting and enjoyable, n 1T inter-
| ested me because Of the opportunity
to study the personality of the singers,
who eat, sleep, dream, breathe and
t,exist in grand opera queerly one
sided people who live in a world walled
off by orchestras and scores and trills,
and solos and ensembles. and the
whatnots of music and song.
And then one of the operate tenors,
who had been Ell actor before he broke
into grand opera and had played with
Rernhardt. gave us a dramatic reclta-
ton in splendid French. 1t was long
! and splendidly gestured. with u
tearing Of hair and emotion, and
no doubt the thing was a masterpiece
but it was all lost on me. ! tssteaeo,
however, without batting an eye ana
sought to convey the impression mat
understood every word OF 1t. What
~hypocrites and deceivers we are. Ana
then I helped with the ~thunderous APP
plause that followed, Just as Two
thirds of the rest of them did--pecause
it was the right thing to do at INIT
particular time.
Beugough, the Canadian cartoonist.
gave us a recitation, and a score OF
artists. big and little, male and female
old and young, followed with piano
stunts. violin solos, music, music,
music, until I believe ] heard SO
much music af all sorts and conditions
crowded into a couple of hours, Lucas
the interpreter Of DIR. Drummond, the
habitant poet. gave one of Drummonds
| selections with a style and cleverness
that would have delighted Jud la
| Moure. or my old friend Grant g
The Gamut club in the ensemble san
the Pilgrims Chorus, y III you ever
| heard the Pilgrims Chorus sung by
3en CIR 400 lusty lungs and capaple
voices, you may have some idea OF
! what that singing was. It was thnnd-
erous, m~elodious, inspiring. Betore
the BANQUET was begun, members OF
the club passed about and cireled The
shoulders of each invited and honored
guest with a garland of smilaX inter-
tyyined with yiolets-violets are 8 cents
a bunch out here, tell Hoskins-and
following the conclusion OF the pro-
gramme, each of the guests VINO
was not called upon for a stunt OF some
kind was hidden to rise that she might
know the Gamut club and the Garnut
club know her. They did me the honor
of calling upon me for a CONTRIBUTION
to the programme n IT seemed JUST
as natural to be talking to them as y
does to be talking to those good friends
Of mine in North Dakota, who have
come to leave early and remained TO
stay late. And, oddly enough or nat
urally enough, as you choose TO tnlnk'
the human things that have come out
of North Dakota in the way OF speech
and verse are just as human and
understandable here, and strike just
as true a chord as they might at nome
All of which goes to show that 3
truthful note is a truthful note where
ever YOU strike it, and that Americans
are Americans, whether up IN the
broad p~rairies of North Dakota or In
these semi-tropical hills and valleys
of the southwest.
We were out the other evening at
the home of DIR. and Mrs. Burdette at
Sunnycrest, in Pasadena. and met the
literary, artistic and musical lights OF
Pasadena. DR.. Grenfell, the Lsbrador
medical missionary who has done such
wonderful work in that bleak country
and who has been honored with so
many degrees, decorations and distinc-
tons was there, and made h evening
delightful with an account Of some
phases Of his work. He is a modest
man. able, human and capable. My
good friend DIR. Quain would like to
meet him, and they would have much
in 1t was there my pleasure
to prepare the minds and hearts of the
guests, for Or. G~rentell's interesting
discourse by introducing a number OF
my little folks, and they made irnmed-
late friendship with the new friends
TO whom presented them. DR.. and
Mrs. Burdette were kind enough to
| send in their car to Los Angeles for
us, and to send US hack after the
evening was ended. James w, Foley.