The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-05-26
Each School Had Different
Way for Boys and Girls
to Represent the Songs
They Sang.
CHILDREN REGRET
MR.. SLOANE'S ILLNESS

With almost every seat even in
the high gallery filled. and people
standing two and three deep around
the back of the hall, the grade
school boys and girls were greeted
with a warm applause in their con-
cert yesterday afternoon.
The great success Of the enter
tainment was partly due to the
clever costumes and little drills that
added so much color and interest to
the musical numbers.
The chorus was well trained and
showed unusually good tone con-
troll, especially in the softer parts.
The children sang with spirit and
enthusiasm, and their productions
would compare with many adult
choruses
But the novelty of the special
school numbers attracted the great
est attention.
"A singing scale which Vale
school introduced easily taught all
the audience the scale. of Erflat, for
the funny little singing master who
was SO perfectly dressed In real
dress suit. ran back and forth SO
fast and pounded the tones out of
the notes SO well, that no one will
forget the do. mi,sOl'' or the way
that he pounded SOL the second
time when she did not sing loud
enough. Once in the middle of a
song when he did not have to direct
his scale" he was seen to yawn,
but when he was at work, he proved
that he could jump around, and
wave his baton. and even bow at
the end of each piece like a pro-
fessional.
When Vale school had finished
their last lively Indian piece, and
the little singing master was max
ing his final bow, James Basore,
one OF the boys up in the high gal
lery, slapped his knee and said,
We'll now, tell you that was
good
WarneUschool was next and they
demonstrated how rain does not al
ways dampen the spirits Of the
crowd. Their rainy day songs were
as clever as could be. and the ten
little girls in their rain coats and
umbrellas were greeted with q
burst Of applause as they came on
the stage. The robin and daisy who
sang their duet had unusually good
voices and could be heard all over
the hall.
When the Sevastopol children
came on the stage, all the colors
OF the rainbow were displayed In
the girls hair ribbons, and in sing
ing the songs of all the spring flow
ers. the color to represent that
flower came forward, while the
others formed a chorus In the back.
ground. When the Birdie with a
yellow bill" came forward, he was
80 good. that James exclaimed.
Now that was cute" But the end
Ing was SO beautiful when all the
butterflies with their pink, yellow
and blue wings. and the lovely white
fairy in the center babe farewell.
that all the children ON the lower
floor stood out In the aisles to see
it, and when It was over James de-
clared he would like to give three
cheers for them.
Baxter has daisy girls.
Baxter school proved that they
have daisy lot OF girls. When the
ten little girls with their big yellow
hair ribbons came on everyone was
delighted. But when the one little
girl sang. What the daisies say"
people everywhere we're standing
up, and James said, "Aw, Ina going
to clap az hard as l can for that
little kid" And he did.
Starr school had their star cooks
and four star walters and they told
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