The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-22
SOME YOUNG PRODIClES

The last few months youthful won ders have been brought forward with great frequency. In October, 1920, word was received here from Poland telling of the eight-year-Old chess wizard, Samuel RzezeWski, and since then pro- digleS have sprung up over all parts of this country. This lad from Poland mas tered the game Ot chess at the age of five and two years later he was able to de feat many of the best players of Europe. Since his arrival in this country he has been very successful against his oppon- ents, and his playing has astounded his watchers.
 Susan Mitchell, eight years old, of 224 West 74th street, New York, enter ed the 'Infants Hall of Fame" when she was put through the Binet- SirOn test by Miss Ella Woodward of the psychology department of Teachers College. She answered all the questions for the IA ycar-old test and passed on in triumph to some for 10 and IS years. She Is now attending the SCudder Elementary school
 Recent reports from Madrid Spain, tell of another boy wonder, Uroff Corma of Catalonia, who at the age of three, plays the piano with extraordinary skill
 
 in the Spanish capital. The infant pro- dizzy is placed by his nurse upon the piano stool, whereupon he begins his per- formanCe without any trace of nervous ness, 1t is reported.
 The youngest preacher in the world Is Carl J. Hoop, II years old of Roscoe, Ohio. During the last few months he has delivered many long sermons, pre- pairing them carefully, but deliverig them without notes. It is said that he cares little for sports, but likes music.
 Robert Manning, F years old, of Ta- coma, Wash who IS reported to have a voice which transcends in range the most famous coloratura voices of musical his cred by Mime. Frances Aida of the Metropolitan Opera Co. when she was travelling in the west Advised by Mime. Aida, the parents decided to send the boy to college for musical education. To test the boys voice dozen vocal experts were assembled from studios in Carnegie Hall recently and the lad sang difficult coloratura aria which pleased his hear CTS.
 Martin Gould is being hailed as the musical prodigy of the age by critics who have heard him play original com positions. He IS the six-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. James Gould of Rich mond Hill, L. l.
 The latest prodigy to be reported is Parmela BiancO, the 14-year-old artist who has just arrived from England. She Is known as the prodigy of the art world and her work was recently on exhibition at the Anderson Galleries. Parmela has been drawing since the age of five, but it was not until the child's work was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, England, in 1919, that she became really famous.
 Miss Esther Lee Gould, 20 years old, of Columbia University, IS the young est candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. She has established a new record for brilliance at the uni versity. but says she does not want to be called a prodigy because people would think her freak. She is special izing in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, i German, and Spanish.
 Edward R. Hardy, jr., F years old in October last, was matrCulated as 1 freshman at Columbia college, and in point of yOuthfulness holds the record of that institute He has an acquaint- ance with F languages and his hobby has been the study of history, particular ly the history of Assyria and Babylonia, in delving into which he has mastered the mysteries of the ancient hieroglyphic tablets that have puzzled the linguistic authorities who through such records frequently found pieCemeal accounts of civilization before the flood.
 TRULY A BENEFACTOR.