The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03

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 Covering Themselves With Glory
 Altogether now; everybody:
 Hooray! Hurrah! for the Ala bama Boys Industrial School band and it's clever bandmaster, Eugene l c. Jordan!
 For
 The "57 varieties of youngsters who compose the "personneP' of this wonderful organization which is beloved of Birmingham-of Ala bama-of the entire south-is mak- ing a triumphant march through Texas, in the biggest vaudeville houses in MT. Karl Hoblitzelle's en- l tire circuit.
 Yesterday I had letter from Bandmaster Jordan, telling me all about it and enclosing just bodies and punches of wonderful "edito- rials' and "stories" in all the big Texas newspapers about Alabama's in other words-Birmingham's own dear Boys Industrial School band and I'm going to "pass it on" to you and to you, for know you will be proud of the boys and Band master Jordan as l am.
 Among other things hear what Bandmaster Jordan writes from Dallas:
 "The boys are enjoying them selves very much on this, our first professional tour and we have had much favorable comment every where. The management is highly pleased with our act and you might tell our friends back home-in Ala bama-that we have made good 1 Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Little Rock are included in our tour, and while we are travelling and working the boys are also doing some studying, as they go along, and the people everywhere are lovely to us.
 I've are buying The Age-Herald at every place we stop and all Of us were sorry to hear of the ter rible mine disaster.
 "We use the announcement, Ala bama Boys on every program and we always get tremendous applause everywhere we appear
 Buster Brown, sour little IL year-old boy, conducts the first number on each program and is the center of great ovation every, where"
 Of the many complimentary stories written about our Alabama Boys Industrial School band, whicf Bandmaster Jordan was klne enough to send me. none covers tlt subject more completely than tht author of this:
 e1The Alabama Industrial Schoo Boys band closed the show. Tn, little fellows are real child musi clans and can play. classical as wei as popular stuff. This band is con ceded to be the finest boys band 1T America. There is quality about the playing of these 57 boys, rang ing from ' to IT, that no adult banc on earth can duplicate. There is { dual personality in it-the joy o1 youth and the pathos of circum stances which has produced thi! band. It's more than merely in spirational."
 More than that-isn't it a nict thing, that the old aphorism abou "A prophet is not without honol save in his own country" is st completely relegated to the shades of antiquity in the case of the Boys Industrial School band?
 For
 It was right here among the peo pie who love them that the inspira tion came, "to give them their chance" as Mr. Kipling puts it, "anc they stuck
 It was right here on the stage ot the Lyric-where MT. w. s. Cros bic, with his big vision and his broac humanity, saw chance to givt these youngsters name and fame and he did it!
 The rest of the story is told in { few short words:
 The Boys band leaped at bound professional organization. and wht knows what the finale will be?
 At any rate they are Climbing the Golden Stairs" in the words o1 the old song, of fame and the fail name of Alabama is emblazonet upon the worlds horizon, not only as a state where coal and iron ant steel have made her famous, bu where the heart of child is treas ured and where the hope of tn, generations of the future, is nur tured.
 Now then; all together, "The Gang's All Here; let's give three rousing cheers for the Alabama Boys Industrial School band ant the splendid young bandmaster, Flu C InnIn.,