The Washington times., 1924-04-05

"You have convinced me" wrote
r.. J. Fulton several days ago, that
every marine is primarily musi'
clan who would rather fiddle than
fight and that every spree of
sailor on shore leave is caused by
a suppressed desire to play De-
busy at Musical matinees.
"The idea Is wholly Inconsistent
with what I had formerly believed
concerning sailors and marines. But
wen let that pass.
You have had, however, nothing
to say Of the musical attributes
of the doughbOy and the artillery
man. Must / take it then that they
are beyond the pale Of considera'
ton and that an army band Is
hardly worth bothering about as far
as it's powers of musical entertain
ment are concerned? Please let me
know about this as, in the next
war, / want my young son, who is
already, like you. displaying fond
ness for a mouth organ, to get into
that branch of the service where ne
can best follow his musical lnc1-
nations"
We admit that we have spoken
very highly about the radio per-
formances of the Marine and Navy
bands and their orchestras, and
that we have had somewhat less to
say of similar performances Of
the Army Band and it's orchestras.
But we are inclined to feel that
this is due to the fact that we are
so very intimately connected with
the army. Having marched, mount.
ed guard and paraded for almost
three years to the army's music,
we were under the impression that
every one knows as we do that
there are thousand of really mu-
steal hearts beating underneath the
olive drab wooden and khaki.
There has been no doubt in our
minds as to the extraordinary
merits of our own Army Band here
lin Washington as displayed In its
broadcast programs. And we had
supposed there would be none in
1.-THE minds of anyone else.
AS far as the future career of
IMr. Fulton's musically inclined son
lis concerned, we hope Mr.. Fulton
listened in last night to the concert
,of the Army Band Orchestra.
That was as fine piece Of work
las we have heard in long time.
/ The forty-five-minute Carmen
presented by the quartet from the
Washington Opera Company, under
1.-THE direction Of Edouard Albion, was
a real gem. Excellent readings by
Peggy Albion introduced the more
familiar bits of the opera, which
were sung by the artists with de
Ilightful manner.
The .Cynic dropped around to
llisten-in with us last night and
scoffed when we set for WCAP al
1870.
He would have had us believe that
Scott Blakely would prove to be an
advertisement for kits.
| After eventually hearing the sing
err of Scotch songs he admitted theil
merit but absolutely refused to le
| us tune in WEAF later for "Th'
lSleeping Princess" That's certain
to- be an ad for bedspring or {
maNterss," he said.
just ROmping.
We sat through at least twenty
minutes of story told in French
Just to hear CKAC, Montreal, at thu
| end. And then the announcer, with
out the trace Of an accent, appeared
and told us we had listened to {
novel bedtime story from WGY
Schenectady.
Nat Holman, captain Of the Gel
| tics" the world champion basket
ball team, appeared as kDkAt
feature" and explained in voic,
that spoke entirely too rapidly. al
about the fine points of the game
There was grand and glorious
whistler somewhere down on a Low
wave length during the late hours
He whistled into four or five differ
ent programs, but we could neve
get him by himself.
While we we're sitting off to tn