The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15

I didn't mean her-but all concert
 singers Now, we men sing things
 that everybody knows" I explained
 ''rhe Long. Long Trair'-and if she
 hadn't made Q record of that. thought
 it was fine-"And Dixie I told her.
 and she produced clippings to show that
 Dixie" was considered her most thrill
 ing encore, and she's making a record
 of that. too.
 How about Climbing Up the Golden
 Stair I.asked her. She said she
 hadn't got to that. but she knew the
 Little Alabama Coon" and My old
 Kentucky Home" and if I'd get her a
 copy of the one I sang Then I told
 her how we fellows used to sit around
 In the moonlight and initiate the frogs and tree-toads and all the wild ani-
 mals; and she said she had couple
 of bird songs that initiated everything
 and were lots prettier. And so we
 talked, she matching everything of- fered with something just like it. only betterp
 Then lit into the classical stuff. Her mouth puckered provokingly several
 times while was expostu;atine and
 then sne threw back that golden head of hers and laushed-a clear, joyful, rippling
 laugh that made me laugh, too. It's the
 kind of laugh you'd go miles to hear. MY Wite says l don't have to-I can take her to hear The Daughter of the
 Regiment and The Cobb,er' and the a'Fairy' right over at the Metropolitan Opera House on Thirty-ninth street. ITO make a long story short, Miss Hempel introduced me to the classics.
 so-called. She started to tell me about ! them ,and I asked her to show me So she went right over to the piano and ran up and down the keys and then we were off on verdi-and one of his bix iation ditty, but about as high. She also taught me how to pronounce that word ah-ri-ah-which made the music easier to listen to from the start. The trouble with most classical music is that even # You do enjoy if. you can't talk about t afterward without pronouncing diction- cry.
 Then Miss Hempel sang the Proch ! Theme and Variations I'm strong for
 Froch now, and stronger for the varia- tions l fell for a group of French songs and actually wanted one of them over again, but the no encore ruie was in et-
 feet And when she sang that zuni T right up and stood at salute. I've been down in the southwest and looked across those millions of miles of desert to the sun just as the old Indian did-=and :, got me
 T told her they had asked me to De Association up in Connecticut where ] live in the summer, and I thought per- haps would reconsider it if they would have the concerts in the evening So could go. She says nearly all the fes- tivals are evening affairs now as so many men asked that they be gwen a chance to enjoy the music as wall as pay for it. "The prima donna said she always lilSee
 to see lot of men out in the audience She admitted maybe some of them may have hated to dress up and come-and
 maybe some hated to come anyway-but
 nobody semed to enjoy good music bet ter than men did once they got into the spirit of it. She further said that there was nothing so good to brush all the cobwebs out of the mind and put the brain in good working order as an even ing of music.
 I had intended to suggest her arrang- ing special programme of lighter music to induce men to come to concerts but already realized it wouldn't do. She said NO-NEVER-she wouldn't think of