The Washington times., 1925-05-18


it? Yet, picture this in your fancy:
10000 people, meath the stars,
listening to the greatest SYM
10000 people or more assembling
four times a week-coming from
miles and miles and miles-to fill
this peoples Bowl" that nature
has set in the. Hollywood hills.
$4,000 people gathered here for
an Easter Sunrise Service! Little
children forming a huge white
cross in the middle of the stage. as
symbol of this annual renewal"
of life and hope and spirit.
That's something!
Does it give you a thrill?
There's a thought for Washing
ton behind this story. Does it ex-
cite your imagination? Wait awhile
1t will come later.
Why Nominate for Fame.
The huge spiritual message be.
longs to outdoors and music.
And we might have it!
Civic and community organiZa-
tions of Hollywood sponsored the
great Easter sunrise service, work,
ing under the direct leadership cb'
Mrs. Carter, president of the Holly
wood Bowl Association.
Read the inspirational words OF
Elena Buckley in their newspaper,
the Hollywood Daily Citizen:
Through the stiffness Of Easter
eve, throngs of worshippers left
their homes and started on a pill
grimage to a shrine of worship
and when the Easter dawn burst
over the hills, flooding the scene
with the golden light of q new day,
more than $4,000 men. women, and
children were congregated in the
Hollywood, Bowl, a majestic shrine,
set eternally in the hills.
Two trumpeters, attired in flow
ing white robes, their trumpets
glistening in the sun, heralded the
first rays of the sun with the
strains of Gloria Patria and -he
congregation bowed reverently as
the invocation was uttered.
Then, suddenly, there sprung
into being a huge living, singing
cross, when the members of the
Hollywood Children's Chorus, DOTTED
their wraps and stood triumphant
in the morning sun, the very sym
boil of faith.
Humanizing a Conductor
We need, sometimes, to renew
our Community souls" by remem-
.bering some such high reality as
this
But we're just folks out there"
Mrs. Carter says.
You know we cannot at first
make the famous orchestral con-
ductors; who come each year to
make these symphonies under the
stars the best that we may offer,
we cannot make them unbend and
be just one of us.
''Take Alfred Hertz, who came to
US with all the tradition of the aloof
concert stage and the old world in
music. You get the idea, she
added as an interlude-"this is our
New World in Music!
"Mr. Hertz objected to my going
to the front of the stage, before his
first concerts, and talking to the
vast audience. He said it robbed
the occasion of it's dignity.
You know l told him, you are
in the habit Of playing just to that
very small per cent Of the world
that goes into concert halls. We,
out here, land oh! you should hear
Artie Carter say that Eve, with
her friendly smile and the touch
of .coquetry in the shake of her
head, as she goes on to say that
out in the big West we don't know
SO much about your beautiful things,
but we desire to know
and" she told me, I'VE had
him making speeches to the people
himself before the summer was
over"
The Virtue of Being "FOlks."
1t is because Artie Mason Carter
takes humanity" with her music
that she is being named as candi-
date for the $4,000 prize in the
greatest woman achievement" con-
test.
Now let's come home and see how
it touches us.
We've lost something in Wash
ington.
Bowl was the outcome of com
munity sings"
All winter long, in Hollywood,
the Community Sings carry on" in
the little old schOolhouse-thOugh
of course in modern California it
is now neither little nor old.
Who wants to find US a hill?
Who of the thousands who use
to assemble, with Bob" Lawrence
at the Central High School Stadium,
wants to link hands and sing to-
gether "Auld Lang Syne" or get
acquainted and laugh again like
children over How dye do Sue?"
Then who, in the National Capi.
tai, wants to take this friendship
spirit and bring us some reality of
that indefinable something that the
greatest of music instills-We know
not how-when we are not on
parade but are all Just folks"
singing together?