The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-19
Hsalthy Musical
 Sign in Gotham

CIS ueCFOpOllS or CnlS country, naQ many more concerts during the season just ended than ever before in it's his tory" According to the Courier, it IS natural for the we'll known artists. to hunt profit in the big city and natural for the debutantes to seek recognition there As rule there is money in New York only for those artists with Luminous regulations" but the public of the metropolis is now showing an increased willingness to accept newcomers into the fold of it's favorites."
 The artistic achievements of the concert-givers, it is pointed out, rep resent much higher average than formerly, and that is one reason why New York is ready to listen to more concerts than in other years and quicker to give recognition where it is due.
 The daily journals of New York have long been referred to by the provincial press" as the most pro- vincial papers in the United States. The Musical Courier evidently takes somewhat that view when it says:
 There cannot be too many concerts in New York, because even the bad ones serve an obviously useful pur- pose. They defeat themselves and in the end serve to show unworthy as pirants for musical fame that it can- not be acquired and held without merit as the prime foundation. Many such aspirants cannot be convinced of their lack of merit until after they have given a concert here and met with the savagery of daily newspaper criticism and the freezing indifference of the lay listeners. Another mark of American musical progress lies in the fact that success in New York or failure here no longer means the making or marring of a career. The rest of our country has come to re- gard New York as local as any other place and it's opinion representative of an area stretching from the Bat tery aquarium to the Bronx zoo. That is as it should be. The other sec tions of the United States have artis- tic standards and judgments fully as exacting as those of New York. and they are competent to formulate their own estimates. If this were not so. then all the tours of the virtuosi, song sters, string quartets, opera con- panies and symphony orchestras would have been in vain.' * *
 Senator Stone says Colonel Roosevelt got his troops into hole in Cuba and they had to be rescued by negro soldiers commanded by regular officers. That comes perilously near being lesc maieste
 
 According to bacterologist, "sensi- tized" person may be poisoned by eggs, strawberries and milk. There isn't much danger if the 'senstizcd' person is un- able to buy these commodities
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 Guests of the King of England are now cutting their own bread There are American snobs who would gladly do without bread if the King would invite them to dinner.
 A dancer is suing for back salary amounting to something like $50, 900, but she wishes it distinctly understood by the public that she considers the sum a mere trifle.
 Don't rock the boat, advises Secretary Redfeld, And the ship of state would make better progress if some of thoso dawdling congressman were thrown over board.
 ;; * a: The worlds greatest horse trader" has weakness for diamonds For some reason or other associating with horses always makes a man want to wear dia- monds.
 It goes without saying that those jack ies of the American fotilla now on duty in British waters are the envy of every other jackie in the United States navy.
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 teller but unlike Mir Depew, he occasion ally went to a dinner without telling one,
 The country editor would be more than plea sed nowadays to exchange a years subscription for half dozen tubers.
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 The local barbers' strike was not engi- neered by subtle persons in the employ