The Washington times., 1927-04-21

ton Of one Of the sciences it has
done so much to advance in the
two and a quarter centuries Of its
existence, Yale University provided
the entire civilized world with one
of the most amazing exhibitions OF
modern progress in most casual
way last night by furnishing q
program of speeches from five diff
ferent cities of the United States to
200 gatherings of its alumni in
America, Europe, Asia, Africa and
the islands of the seven seas!
Indifferent alike to tune and
space and to an electrical storm
that ragged along the Atlantic coast
with unusual intensity. the atmos-
phere was crowded with eloquance
by the sons Of Yale and incidentally
most of the $50, 900 900 endowment
fund the orators sought to raise
was forthcoming before the eTening
was finished
One takes very deep breath when
one thinks of the radio happenings
that attended the Yale proceedings.
Loud speakers and public address
systems attuned to % radio broad
casting stations were utilized in the
demonstration of the uncanny way
in which radio annihilates distance.
President James Rowland Angel, in
New York: former president Arthur
Twining Hadley in Chicago; Rich
ard F.. Grant, in Cleveland; Harry
B. Wallace in st. Louis and the
Chief Justice Of the United States,
William Howard Taft, in Washing
ton were introduced in Just that
order by DIR. George b. Vincent, in
New York, as though they were
sitting beside him. Each speaker
acknowledged the introduction and
made his address, short and to the
point and each was heartily APP
plauded by the 200 audiences that
heard him, while the Yale Glee Club
sang Yale songs, in New York.
VAST AUDIENCE
HEARS APPEALS
That is all there is to the story.
The twenty or thirty million nom
Yale people who sat in hunched
and questioning silence before their,
loud speakers in their homes are
probably still trying to figure it
out, If they are thinking of it at
all. We've stopped wasting too much
mental energy over radios amaZ-
ing accomplishments. but occasion
ally something happens like this
Yale thing to make us think and
permit the dials to remain set for
talks in which we haven't lot Of
personal interest. Last nights cleo
trical storm gave the Yale orators
a much larger audience than they
probably would have had otherwise
lin the East at lessf-so that the
impression is abroad today there
may be some ground for the in
ference Of some of the speakers
that Providence itself was really
but a reflection of Yale spirit and
Anyhow, we all hope
Yale gets double the endowment
fund it solicited so universally
using that last and much abused
adjective in its literal sense for
once.
Otherwise the storm kept Wash
ington radiotics at home for the
entire evening and gave them one
or two things to think about that
are worth while. The most strik-
ing of these. perhaps. was the
manner in which Emile Henning
wrapped her voice around every
listening heart when she sang
Loves Old Sweet Song" and Deep
in My Heart" two of the simplest
and most familiar pieces in the
book. Miss Henning's voice, we
have once or twice taken occasion
to remark, is one of the purest
contraltos we've heard, and her
ell to- l. &Sla<
as the rich tones she makes with
1t. But 1t was a greater gift, an
appreciation of the poetry and ro-
dies. that gave her the power to
make them living music in the
loud speaker last night. She sang
other things. sang them well. but
did not reach the heights OF musi-
cal eloquence with anything as she
did with the sweetest story ever
told"
Aside from the Henning per.
Torrance, the outstanding feature
of the evening concert was the
playing of a symphonic poem by
the Mexican composer, Alvarada
during the program of the United
States Army Band. The production
was a premier in Washington for
this composition, an elaborate trans
lation of a dream to music. It was
a most inclusive bit of music-in
fact. it seemed to us to have rather
too much for one composition. II
might better be divided into sections
as a suite, although that might dis.
rupt its continuity Of thought, per.
haps. And it would be much better
If played by an orchestra, as the
band failed to develop completely
some of the finer and more elusive
portions Of the idea.