The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-12
By DOLLY DALR YMPLE

and has acquired s fine reputation for
 It's rendition of steal Away, Deer
 River Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray etc. This year we are doing Go Down
 Moses and Good News, Chariors Com in We are using the arrangements of Natalie Curtis Burlin, who took these
 songs down from the Hampton stu
 dents, and so we know we have the real thing, l cannot claim that my crowd
 sings them better than Booker T.'s
 Glee club does. but we get a lot out
 of them and they are immensely popu-
 lar.
 We have a,remarkably good baritone
 soloist, a youngster by the name of
 Reginald Thomas. who halls from Bir-
 mingham. and a yodler of uncommon
 cleverness in Robert Berry of Besse-
 mer l have seldom heard a more att
 tractive yodel than this boy possesses.
 Tie IS also the first tenor In the quar-
 tet which Is well balanced and excel-
 ently voiced. One of the novelties on
 this years programme is black face
 speciality think a glee club programme can stand little, vaudeville touch now and then and we have student who ttnveied over the country with the army
 minstrels and had the advantage of professional coaching. His act is al- ways big hit on our programme. An other specially pleasing novelty is a piano player who composes his num- oers and sings his songs to his own ac- compartments. He is a yourgster origf-
 naliy from Andalusa, named Stark Padgett. and plays with a verve that is astonishing. He doesn't read music at all yet can dash off melody after melody with the greatest fluency. He is real nj Nersity boys are always Hooking around him to hear him play and sing nis unique songs. To hear him relate ms troubles with his girl and then rem der the line I'm going to build me a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man (not woman),' is too good to be easily described Another of his unusual songs is Do, daughter, do. All these songs have appealing tunes and ne plays them wonderfully. He also does some plano rags in exceptional style.
 The club has been in existence long enough now to have fine alumni and It IS always great pleasure to meet | these former warblers. Some of them are men of family, and I am expectins | 2 most any time now to have the son or laughter of an old Glee club man ap- pear in college. Birmingham hes more INV Siuu alumni IHhn any city, not ,nly on account of it's size but the high 'chool in Birmingham makes so much | 'f music that we get students at the already partly prepared for he Glee club. l could not tell you how many Euterpean club members I have lsed.
 Speaking of the music work in the schools l find that each ear makes it little easier for the ilee club to secure good voices. for 'oys no longer consider 1t a sissy hing to sing in school, and they are amiliar with chorus and community inging before they come to college. rne general interest in music ex- loited all over the country in the past ew years is beginning to be reflected the younger generation. and there re at the university this year goodiy lumber of students who can sing and iay many instruments. do not know vhen we have had as many pianists. nd in addition there are numerous sax phone players, vioIinists, cornetists ,anjolsts and mandolinists"