Arizona republican., 1914-07-20
WILLIAM CONRAD MILLS
 BOOSTING FOR PHOENIX
Tells Washington Folks of Arizona School of Music and of Phoenix

William Conrad Mills, director of voice culture of the Arizona School of Music, is now on his vacation and has travelled from Phoenix to Washington, D. C., and back to the Pacific coast in the course of his tripping. Recently he was in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but since has left there for San Francisco. where he will join his family. When his vacation is completed he expects to return to Phoenix with Mrs. Mills and the family.
 While away he has not forgotten to boost Phoenix and the Arizona School of Music. Recently a Wash ington paper carried the following description of Phoenix and the School of Music.
 William Conrad Mills, known to Washingtonians as a tenor singer of artistic ability through his former Johns and other prominent churches, is visiting Washington for a few weeks and renewing old acquaint- ances While in Washington MT. Mills studied singing under some of the most prominent singing teachers in the national capital. the late pr. J. w. Bischoff, George Goldsmith Da- land, and Sydney Lloyd Wrightson.
 MT. Mills has just completed his first year in charge of the vocal de partment of the Arizona School of Illa ;r an enthusiastic booster for the west crn country When questioned con- corning the music conditions in his Fart of the country, MT. Mills stated that the Arizona School of Music is a privately owned institution which has gained an enviable reputation throughout the west during the past ten years. The school was founded ten years ago by its present owner and director, Mrs. Shirley Christy, and has had a phenomenal growth. During the school year just ended there were 479 pupils enrolled, and the year 1913 showed an enrolment of 454 students. The school faculty numbers fourteen, and vocal piano, violin. and other stringed instru ments, folk and fancy dancing. elo- cution and dramatic art, harmony, German, French and Spanish are taught The school building was erected at a cost of nearly $50.000 and is a beautiful structure of the old mission style of architecture. It contains an auditorium that will seat 500 persons, and the studios and elassrooms are large and airy. The school also has a fully equipped stage of generous proportions, and creditable performances of light op- era and plays are given by the students in the school MT. Mills, in addition to his duties at the school is musical director of the Phoenix Choral society, consisting of more than eighty voices, and choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
 In speaking of Phoenix as a city MT. Mills stated that it is a wide awake western city located in the famous Salt River valley, which se- cures water for irrigation purposes from the great Roosevelt dam. Or anges, grapefruit and olives are rais ed in abundance and in the past two years thousands of acres of cottor have been grown with much success Mir Mills also claims for Phoenix that it is being recognized more and more each year by eastern tourist: as the best winter resort in th' west, because of it's dry and bracine atmosphere, and cites as proof thu preference shown for this spot bl Charles Wakefield Cadman, the fam ous and popular young American composer, who spent three month! of recreation in Phoenix the pas winter, and several other persons o national reputation.
 MT Mills stated that he is asso ciated with splendid school O music and is enjoying his work ther' thoroughly. The many local friends of Mir. Mills, and admirers of hi: beautiful lyric tenor voice, will b. pleased to know that he is announc ed as the solOist for the services thi: evening, beginning at 7:45 o'clock, a the Church of the Covenant.