Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-11-03
MUSIC DEPARTMENT THURS
 DAY AFTERNOON CLUB

We had the rare good fortune te be among those present on Monday night, October 30, when the Depart ment of Music held its first meeting of the season.
 Because it happened around Hal loween, you might have expected tn, nall to be filled with black cats witches, and ghostly, grinning pump kin faces but not a bit of it. Thi. was a bona fide Indian Pow Wow with Navajo blankets, autumn grasses and vines to lend atmosphere-ever a little brown .papoose, strapped In. dian fashion, hung on one wall.
 From the moment those cute little Indian squaws entered grooming the only Indian cradle song in existence to the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the program was an unqualified success. But about those little squaws-Vera Carr, Marcella and Odella Mills, lone Ferguson, Florence Anderson and Lois Gates, all in the regalia> of the squaw at her best came in with their dollies strapped to boards or Indian cradles or what-ever-they-are, swung from their backs. They were grooming Gin real Indian, mind you) what must have been the equivalent of Rock-a-Bye Baby, any way the song was riot and they had to come back and do it all over again. Miss Dorothy George played their accom- paniment. If we failed to mention first, those interesting Indian legends that Mrs. Williston read to us, blame the dis crepancy onto the little squaws. They made us forget. ..,
 Mrs. George Burns read a very in- teresting paper on Indian Music Com posers, foremost among these being Cadnan. Seventeen publishers de- clined his now famous Indian songs before they were published. Aren't these publishers and editor people the limit? Believe you m-, they are!
 The next number, a piano solo en- titled "A Love Song" by Cadman, was beautifully rendered by Miss Casteel.
 Once on happy time, we heard Alma Gluck sing Cadman's, "Land of the Sky Blue Water" and we never hoped to get a thrill out of it after that from the voice of an amateur but when Mrs. Aubrey Sims sang it last evening; we did thrill to the nth" degree. Her lovely voice took those exquisite notes like a flute. Her next number, "Far Off I Hear a Lovers Flute", also Cadman com position, was we'll rendered.
 Mrs. w. H. Welsh played two piano solos, From an Indian Lodge", by Mcdowell and Kickapoo Social Dance by Skelton. The latter took us right out to the Wallapai Pow Vows, to old Squeejum, Wanna and the rest of our Indian friends. We liked that Kickapoo dance.
 We have in Mrs. George Williston, a voice that would stand out among the best in the country. She sang in her inimitable manner, two selections, "The Moon Drops Low" byaCadman, and "Zuni Lovers Song" by Troyer
 Mrs. R. L. Anderson read paper, History of Indian Music" and we wish we could repeat it all here, es- pecially her description of how the In- dian depicts his songs in picture writ ing. A full love song is represented by seven figures consisting of lit- tie ginger cake man and maid and the way he bowled her over with his eloquence. It begins, "It is my form and person that makes me great" and ends with naked heart. No kidding anybody as to who is the star per- former-"Get lem early and treat lem rough, and believe you me, he does! A trio by Mrs. Tafel, Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Tom Devine, "The Little Papoose Hung Bough", accompanied by Miss Turner, was we'll received.
 And right at the last came the real fun-all of us sang number of those old songs which never grow any easier to sing no matter how ancient they might be such as "Dixie", Sweet and Low, etc. Miss Shocky says if we keep on improving we may sing as we'll as her primary pupils in time.
 The next meeting of this depart ment will be at the home of Mrs. Jacobson on Nov. 27th Thursday Afternoon .,.,.