Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-09
,TEEl WORKS Y FREE
CONCERTS ARE POPULAR
BY FRANK NJ. GRAY

4 ID L NAN N Ahs
\ Entertainments of any kind even il
| they are free. that succeed Sunday
| after Sunday In drawing an audience
| of from 1900 to 1900 persons certainly
must be above the ordinary, and such
| popularity is enjoyed by the COM
munity sings and diversified program
presented at the steel works 'Y" each
Sunday afternoon.
While the attractions arranged by
Musical Director Tom Christian are al
was good. credit must be given to the
community sing, or concert that
starts each Sunday entertainment.
Yesterday I CHANGED to be seated
next to gentleman, apparently 4
business man as l learned a stranger
in Pueblo. He put question TO me.
into a soto voice talk between acts.
He was a commercial man and his
home town Is Brockton, Mass.
1T would have been hard to convince
me that l should attend meeting like
this out here in the Rocky mountain
region. had I been told before leaving
home" he said. Here you have a
recreation building costing half mil
lion dollars and believe l guess close
This institution would be credit to
any metropolis and outside OF per-
haps Boston we have nothing like 1t
in Massachusetts. And L thought in
passing thru here on my way to the
Pacific coast l was in a coyote, sage
brush section of the country. You
would get no such an afternoon Of
recreation as I have enjoyed today in
Massachusetts for nothing, believe
me- 1t would be fifty cents at the door,
and program not as good as present.
ed here today. But the community sing
ing is what caught me. How in the
world that leader (Tom Christian) gets
such volume Of melody all in perfect
time. from such a cosmopolitan gath
erlnR is more than COmnfehcnd.
I'd pay so cents any time to hear such
community singing as l heard here
today, and this in what we think back
in the New England states, to be the
wild and woolly west. II l ever hit
Pueblo again and on Sunday. l know
where I'll spend the afternoon, I'll
| tell the world
| Mr.. Christian may enjoy a feeling OF
satisfaction over this. 1t proves that
his phenomenal successful work as a
| visitors from the east, quite as far
east as Boston.
Yesterdays program was exceeding.
ly good. When such talent as Charles
| Wilson the locaHy popular tenor. and
Mrs. Jones-Rees, whose sweet so.
for numbers something classy can be
expected and II always is there.
Mr.. Wilson'S tenor solo. Come b,
ID DHardelot was a vocal gem SO wei
rendered that the gentleman Responded
to an insistant encore. / don't know
the title OF his secod song. but 1t wa,
equally as good As the hrst one.
third number by Mr.. Wilson woulc
sure have been enjoyed.
Mrs. Jones -Rees soprano selection
was Logan's Pale Noon" 1t is un'
necessary for me to say that the lad,
was warmly encored asad that as usua
she responded with second song
Mrs. Rees is so kind hearted that
believe she would have SANG out tn,
afternoon II Mr.. Christian the an
nouncer, had kept off. Sometimes n
needs hook" but not when littl
'Buttercup" is warb!inR.
Dorothy Camppell's piano solo wa
artistically rendered as was the re
lection she played as an encore Tn,
young lady evinced much study ant
practice. probably due to the artist,
direction OF Prof Frank Schwtnger
Miss Bernice Mourning. a younl
lady with all the grace and self as
surance OF a stage professional CAV,
a reading THE Little Philosopher" II
a most artistic manner Miss Mourning
has achieved a splendid line on gestur,
and expression and her encore number
His Dad was a neat bit OF persona
tion. Whoever the young lady's In
structon Is don't know. but I" sa,
she is developing rare talent.
As finale to the program a quartz
Mrs. Rees. soprano: Charles Wilson
tenor: Thomas Christian, baritone ant