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Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17

up and I'll show you'll And when
| Mr., Longears was up in the school
room the Mouse Teacher pointed
| to pile of finelv.torn scraps Of
white paper on her desk. At first
it looked like heap of snow.
cold and shivery.
"What happened?' asked Mr..
Lougears.
at was while we were having
recitatiors. explained Miss Mouse.
Johnnie took a lot of blank. Write
pages out Of his lesson book and
tore them into fine scraps like
flakes of snow. Then while Jackie
Row Wow was reciting piece
about skating ON the ice. all of n
sudden Johnnie tossed a double
rawful of the torn up paper all over
Susie who sat in front of him. It
looked SO much like little snow
storm that Susie began to shiver.
But she suor laughed and so did
all the other children. SO | had to
make Johnnie stay in after school
and pick up all of his funny paper
snow. Here it is.
eyes. said Uncle Wiggily look.
ing at the pile on the desk Of Miss
Mouse. 1T does look like snow,
OF course Johnnie shouldn' t have
done it. but | guess just then
the rat gentleman .ianitor who had
taken the school flag down cam"
creeping into the room.
Excuse me Uncle Wiggily, -
whispered the ianitor, But the
Wolf is down in the yard aud in
minute he'll be coming up here
to bite you.
Mr.. Loneears looked out of the
window and saw the Wolf down in
the yard The Lady Mouse scream.
ed softly as she saw the bad chap.
81 II play a trick on him! -
whispered the rabbit. He took the
funny paper snow Johnnie had
made and dropped it in sitting
flakes down on the VOLTS head.
And no sooner did the hungry an
imal see the white flakes drifting
down than he, too. thought they
we're real snow.
"Wow!' he howled. There 5 4
big storm coming! I'd better run
home before | freeze | III get that
rabbit another time,'' SO away he
ran. not knowing the snow was
nothing but bits of paper. So Mr..
tongearS was saved and he and Miss
Mouse had a good laugh.
And if the carpet sweeper docsn t
roll over the foot Of the stairs
and make them turn upside down.
III tell YOU next aboGt Uncle Wig
gily and Bully'S boat.
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SMITH AID M'TS
STEALING AUTO
IN KANSAS CITY

The case Of o. NJ Smith, alias
Frederick or Edward Williams, who
VAS brought back to f. Ceutro on
4 charge Of having given a worth
less check ON local hank, assumed
Il new aspect Yesterday afternoon.
Grillcd by attaches at the sheriff 5
cffjcr, Smith is said to have admit
ted the theft of the automobile in
which he was brought to FL Centre
BY Deputy Sheriff Harold Gillett.
Smith left Fl Centre hurriedly
about It year ago and is said to
have taken with him an automobile
and a quantity ct jewclry belong
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17
lF4E,S0LEIi[S

single lady dying in Albany, n. Y. leaves a
fortune of $300G00 ninetenhs of which is set aside
to build mausoleum in her memory in the little
town she from.
That is good and worthy deed if the mausoleum
is be devoted to the general service OF the commun.
ity Then nobody will grudge the lady this method of
perpetuating her memory If it is entirely for the
of the donor, as in many similar case, it bespeaks
only pitful and foolish ambition.
- The only monument worth anything is built by
o1Hers. The finest memorial is living memory Of mer-
it. Dassn-xOn succeeding generations without any
effort of the one remembered.
The old Pharaohs got away with it, but the world
TODAY wants deeds rather than marble monuments.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17
NT.STC LOVERS

1t used to be said that Americans didn't for
opera-they wouldn't pay what it cost, and
grudged the time required to listen to it.
That used to be said in Cleveland, in other Amer
lean cities And probably it true.
However in the first week of this month"; the people
of Cleveland in their public auditorium, attended
eight performances of grand opera to the number of
81 584, paying for that privilege S1S6298. That paid
the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company of New York
for its services including transportation expenses, and
left comfortable balance in the municipal treasury
tc apply on a similar music fest next year 1t is said
to have brolen worlds recorG; operate at
tendance and receipts
Yes, Americans like good music. Give them chance
to hear it, any city that has gone further than the
A. B, c of culture, and they will develop demand
for and better music. and eventually support the
very best.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17

please, Uncle Wiggily!" chattercd
The squirrel boy. ~ IN in a hurry
TO 90 to the ball game,'' and he
was soon lost to sight among the
trees.
There is something queer going
on here" declared Mr.. LongcarS.
Can anything have happened to
the Lady Mouse Tcacher' Is .Iohn-
ME running for Dr. PosSum! No,
lie said he was going to ball
game"
Just then Uncle Wiggily heard :,
cute little speaking laugh. and
looking mp. he saw the Mouse
Teacher looking down at him from
an upper window. She saw his puZ
zled face.
Nothing very much has hap
! pencd, Uncle Wiggily,' squeakcd
, Miss Mouse, except that l let al
the children 60 home early as a
treat, but l had to keep Johnnie
Bushttail in for being a bit mis-
chevious.
What did Johnnie do" asket
the bunny. Il could see that he hac
been up to some tricks y
"He made a lot of snow anc
threw it all over Susie Littletail,
was the answer.
Johnnie made snOw-now-1
the middle Of May!' exclaimed th'
rabbit. "Impossible, Unless h,
found some in the hidden pile
! discovered about two weeks ago.
No, Johnnie made his owl
/ ,pow.'' said Miss Mouse. "COm'
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Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1927. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD Z. GARIS
UNCLE wIGGILY' FUNNY
SNOW

One Friday afternoon Uncle Wig
cill thought he would hop over tc
the Hollow Stump school in time
10 hear the animal children recitc
some of their rccitationS which they
did the last day of the week.
"Speaking pieces was what
Baby Bunty and the other little
rabbit children called these recit-
ations. The girl animals did not
mind them so much. In fact they
rather liked to ''show off, - rs
Jackie Bow Wow used to say. But
the boys! Dear me!
Speaking in school is fierce, :
Ncddie Stubtail, the little bear
boy, used to growl. But he had to
do il now and then. Though us
ually he only learned very shor'
poems, such as:
The thunder rolled in a light
ning's flash and everybody
thought Neddic was going to speak
a wonderful. shiverv piece = But
he ended with: And broke Grand
mothers teapot all to smash. =
ihat $ all there was TO Neddle
''Picce.
"I'u get to school in time to
hear some of the rccitationS. said,
Uncle Wiggily to himself, but as
he reached the hollow stump
school he saw that the flag was
down. which meant that school was
ever fer the day. Miss Mouse
must have let the children 60 home
early for treat. guess, thought
the rabbit gentleman. But as he
was hopping up the front steps out
of the door ran Johnnie Bushytail.
the squirrel boy.
What s your hurry, Johnnie' g.
asked Uncle Wiggily. Has any
thing happened in school that the
flag is down and you are running
ont -
I'll cant tel You now. if vou
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WINDSHIELD WARNINGS

Motorists breaking traffic rules treated to new
kind of warning in Weston, Ont. Slips have been pre-
pared on which all the usual traffic rules printed
In case of nfracton of these comprehensive slips
is pasted on the errng drivers windshield, with the
particular rule he has broken underlined. There IS
postscript at the bottom stating that second OF
fense will mean arrest.
This ought to have a wholesome effect, and should
be welcomed by motorists capable OF takn ga friend
ly hint.
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charge of the prosecution while 4
#. Wolford OF Calexico appeared 8
defense attorney.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17

The U. S. postal service has lei
. contract for lighting 27s miles q,
the aerial mail route between Lo;
Angeles and Salt Lake Clty.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Nav IT 1910
TEN YEARS AGO
Nav 17.-1917

Secretary Don G. BitIcr of the
Chamber Of Commerce today discov.
cred clever graft which small
boys have been attempting in con
nection with the fly killing cam
paign. The boys, o.. at tlcast one
boy, killed Il pint Of flies, and after
submitting them to the chamber of
commerce office for payment, sup
posedly dumped them in the large
receptacle for that purpose. Instead
he quietly sneaked them to the
street, where after presenting them
to another urchin they we're brought
in again after a discreet interval.
Dumping of flies will be accom-
plishcd before payment is forth
coming in the future, it is stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of I'm
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO

May tt, 1907
\ number of Dankard brethren
left today for Los Angeles where
the big assembly Of that church Is
being held. In the party were Mr..
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-17

Tracy, San Joaquin County, is t
hold a flower show May IL.
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AMHERST GLEE CLuB-FRIDAY.

The Glee Club of Amherst College,
accompanied by the Mandolin Club
will present a program Friday night
at the d. A. r. Memorial Continental
Hall, at $40 o'clock.
Amherst Is the alma mater of Presi-
deSt Calvin Coolidge and his son
John is now student there. Mrs
the two clubs at tea Friday afternoon
20 attend the concert. accompa MED
by her son, and occupy the Presiden-
tial box.
Other men very prominent in Wash
ington affairs who are graduates of
that college are Rudolph Kaufman,
managing editor of The Star: DR. j.
Franklin Jameson of Carnegie Institu-
ton. Commissioners Henry G.. Hall
and James B. Eastman of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, DR.
Walter $. Ufford of the Associated
Charities. DR.. Gilbert Fl. Grosvenor
of the National Geographic Society
Edward r. Clark and Stuart Crawford,
secretaries TO the President: Robert
Lansing. former Secretary of State,
and Harlan F. Stone. Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice
Taft and Secretary Mellon have re-
ceived honorary degrees from Am
herst.
The program Friday night will be:
Lord Jeffrey. Amherst :. j. s. Hamilton, 'O6
Glee Club.
Peter Gink." adapted from Grieg by
G. w. Cobb
Mandolin Club.
Lotus Flower. Schumann
Songs My Mother Taught Me-. Dvorak
Glee Club.
Introducing the Quartet
Tow1er. WILDER Allen, Langford:4
Yale Cornell williams. wesleyan.
Dartmouth, Amherst
Hymn TO the Sun Rmsky Korsako
Mandolin Club
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CITY CLUB CONCERT-THIrRSDay

The City Club will give the four
teenth musical program of the sea
son Thursday. in the lounge at Sis
pm. The club will present in recital
number of Washington concert so.
loists. among whom are Mabel Latimer.
soprano; Lucille Duffy. violinist; Raw.
mond Moore, baritone of the Columbia
quartet, and Louise Sullivan, pianist.
They will be assisted by an octet of
wind instruments under the direction
of William G. White. director and
principal of the Army Music School.
Those comprising the octet are: Will
liam Wirshirt. John Patoka, oboes.
Ernest b. Gentle. Enrico De Vaien.
tino, clarinets: Richard Wickersham,
Lloyd Dodge, French horns; William
q. koelliher,' Frank Scalzette, bas-
soons. and John Pora. flute.
This is the first of the final group
In the cycle of concerts given this sea
son by the City Club. There are three.
those following taking place on April
IA, and %. John Prindle Scott. noted
author-composer Is to appear on one
OF these programs in conjunction with
famous string quartet. details of
which will be announced later
The unusual demand Of cards of ad-
mission from organizations I'm Wash
ington has made ii necessary for the
club to rearrange the lounge i'm order
to accommodate the large number of
people attending. Admission cards,
for which there are no charges. may
be had from the executive secretary of
the club. The broadcasting will be
made by WMAL
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The Technique of Singing
BY MYRON w. WHITNEY
"A Member of the American Academy Singing

able and open. and will reverbef
therein and amplify the tone by|
doing.
The chest cavity need not be Z
sidered.
The first cavity above the chord
within the larynx. AS far as I kn|
the shape and size of this cavity
main constant throughout the
tinuance of the tone. bur it's nosit
varies. The larynX rises and n
slightly In automatic adjustment]
changes of pitch and vowel. The 4
is:
Neither low nor high. but rat,
low than high" Experience has
me to think that the rule should n
Rather high than low"
Fatigue and faulty tone result FL
holding the larynX either too low
too high-fatigue both to the sin
and to his audience.
Consideration of the chords as
CARDS their activity in SUSTAINING
tone is not important, since in
act they are controlled by intent
and not by command. Their action
attack is, however, of the utmost
pOrtance.
heIe are tnFee xmas or attacks
]. The CLOTHS stroke.
:. The attack by aspirate.
). The normal attack.
The first and second are anather
We or the italian school believe Il
they inJure the vocal chords.
The CLOTHS stroke Is banking
breath against the shut chords Z
popping them open when the pressi
nc 70 ct l. 4. =
them shut.
The aspirate Is starting the bre<
before the tone. "Ah" thus becou
"ha."
The normal attack is more diffic
than these. 1t consists in keeping
throat open and starting the tone
approximating the chords simultaI
ously with the first movement Of
breath
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Beethoven in Films.

A y Austrian producing company has
- made a Beethoven film in honor of
the memory of this greatest of all tone
poets. 1t will have its first public
showing Saturday at 3 o'clock in
Egyptian Hall of the John Wanna
maker store in Philadelphia, contin.
uing throughout the week. concluding
March 81.
The picture is entitled Beethoven
and the principal role is interpreted
with marked ability by Fritz Kortner
who lately came to prominence at the
Berlin Stats Theater in production
of Hamlet"
Beethoven legends and facts are
dwelt upon. Scenes of the love affairs
of the musician with Julietta Glue
ciardi and Therese won Brunswick
are enacted In this picture. Ferdi-
nano Ries, Beethoven pupil. is also
seen in the picture.
special orchestra will furnish the
music accompanying this film con-
sisting of well chosen selection from
the best known of the masters works
having been especially arranged in
Vienna. The picture has produced a
decided sensation when shown abroad.
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Navy Musicians Observe
Beethoven Centennial

THE symphony concert in memory
of the Tooth anniversary of the
death of Ludwig van Beethoven will
be given Thursday at pm. at the
band auditorium. Marine Barracks.
Eighth and I streets southeast, by the
United States Navy Band Orchestra.
Charles Benter. leader.
The program will include:
EQUAL" for four trombones.--
Musicians. j. Peck first trombone,
G. Gould. second trombone: j. Cur
tain. third trombone, and II. Heard,
fourth trombone.
Fifth symphony" Opus 81, c
minor.-This symphony. which was
the first of Beethoven's compositions
TO gain international recognition, was
begun in the year 1905.
"SeXtet for Wind instruments.
Opus 71.-Musicians, e. Brendler,
first clarinet: f. Thompson. second
clarinet; n. De Tullio. first bassoon;
4 Jones, second bassoon; r. Wockley,
first horn, and J. Keller. second horn.
"Egmont Overture. In spite OF
the nandicaps that would discourage
most men completely, Beethoven pro
duced some of the most beautiful
and sublime music ever written in
and around the year 1910. His hear
ing had by this time become extreme
" defective and burdensome and his
general health was far from good.
"'rhe Star SpangIed Banner"
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IN honor of the Beethoven centenary
week, Capt. Santelmann has pre-
pared program of the masters
works for the Wednesday evening con-
cert to be given by the United States
Marine Band Orchestra at SIS pm.
in the band auditorium at the Marine
Barracks.
feature will he the playing of
Beethoven's concerto for violin and
orchestra in - minor. opus 81. with
solo part by Musician Herman Il.
Hoffman. This work must now be
given place among his masterpieces,
though when first played by Franz
Clement, famous violin virtuoso OF
his time, in December. 1906. to whom
II was dedicated by Beethoven. and
VINO played the concerto at sight,
without rehearsal, it was not well re-
ceived by the public. Consequently
vived by Joachim.
BeethoVen's most popular SYM
phony, the famous fifth in c minor,
opus 81. has been selected for this
centenary concert.
In response to the request of the
beethoven centenary committee in
TINS country that all programs include
the Funeral March" from the
Erolca' symphony, this number will
be played
The program for Friday afternoon s
concert, at $3.50, will consist of
Beethoven compositions.
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II
straint of the breath i'm singing
i / may seem to have fathered the
idea that the greater the restraint
the better the singing.
This is far from being the case. The
more generous the current of breath
the better. so long as the breath be
permitted and not forced to flow. The
restraint TO be exercised is less a mat.
ter of holding the breath than of re-
sisting the impulse to squeeze the
lungs with the ribs.
The flow of breath Tor tone) over the
lower front teeth should be like the
unbroken silver sheet of water flowing
from millpond over the dam OBJ.
serve, If you please, that this phe-
nomenon is produced by raising the
level of the water in the pond.
1t is not a bad idea to go to the
poets for definitions and descriptions.
These children of the dawn have a
way of stripping off the unessentials
and presenting the idea in it's purity.
Though no dee g;,, yet "'ear-thoush gentle. vet
Strong without rage. without overlooking.
full
These are qualities which appear
too seldom in the human voice. Keats
says as much in three words-"full-
throated ease."
We shall return again and again to
the breath as we pursue our investiga-
tons. since the flow of breath has an
influence upon all the physical reac-
lions which come under the head of
placement.
Placing the voice means making
places in which the voice may re-.
sound. rather than pointing the voice
in any particular direction
The atmospheric vibra tions pro.
duced by the vibration of the vocal
chords set in motion by the breath
will enter any cavity which is avail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20

w WIEN Happiness Week
n | starts at Loew's Palace The
AN alter today the stage will be
transformed into replica
of a New York night club.
The three main acts of the presenta'
ton are Charles Lornberger's orches-
ira, Brown and Bailey, the harmony
singers. and Drena Beach, the aero
batic dancer. go,
Starting March q the theater will
present Carnival Week" Jazz
Week" and Minstrel Week. Sixty
entertainers will take part in the
Minstrel Week" presentation.
Thomas J. Gannon's Palace concert
orchestra will offer an overture called
"Berlnitis,'' which is composed of the
most popular melodies of Irving Der
lin, famous song writer.
There are countless colored bands
and orchestraS on the stage ana IN
every field of amusement, but few
have the Nationwide reputation pos
sessed by Joe Jordan and his Ten
Sharps and Flats" the jazz group
with Ed. +. Daley's sensational white
and-colored musical revue, "Rarin' to
Co." playing this week at the Gayety.
Here is a versat tile organization. Led
ny JDtudii, an cADcIl AOpiAcitISts VIZ
Iinist and cornetist, the 10 negro mu-
sicians are famed for Joyous jazz"
Daniel Breeskin has selected for the
concert overture this week George
Gershwin's celebrated Rhapsody in
Blue"
Mr.. Breeskin. in selecting THE
Rhapsody in Blue" decided to accord
it spirited rendition with full en-
semble of the symphony orchestra,
which provides an Instrumentation
different from any which has hereto
fore been utilized for the rendition of
this complicated bit of modern
rhythm. The solo piano passages
will be executed by Jack Golden,
leader of the LIE Paradis. Band. who
will appear in the overture number
only with the Metropolitan organiZa-
ton.
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JEWISH MUSIC FESTIV Al
TONIGHT

The first festival of Jewish music
ever held in Washington Is announced
for tonight at the Jewish Community
Center. Sixteenth and O streets, to
begin at $3.50 pm. The soloists will
be Cantor Abraham .kalmus. tenor of
the Ohev Sholom Synagogue. and
Albert Shefferman, basso.
A feature will be the piano octet,
Benjamin Rather. leader and includ.
ing Dora Minovich. Theodore Rosen-
field. Mrs. Maurice Bisgyer, Elizabeth
Harrow, DIR. William perau, Sarah
Cooper and Haskell Milstone.
The George Washington University
String Quartet. Herman Weihe, first
violin: Seymour Rosenberg. second
violin; Paul Crop, viola. and Spencer
Prentiss, violoncello. will present
group of instrumental numbers.
The Eighth Street Temple Choir,
Lewis Atwater. director, will sing old
Hebrew numbers.
The program will be:
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COMPOSERS CLUB-Wednesday.


The Washington Composers Club
will hold its first open meeting We'd
nesday night at SIS o'clock, in the
auditorium of Mount Vernon Place
NJ. f. Church South. Mrs. Edward
Hood Watson, chairman of the club,
will preside.
The program will be:
Women $, chorus. Triumph of the MI.
Da"'e The Chaminadde Glee club.
Esther Linkins. director.
Mr.. Heller at the piano.
"a Sacred Sepulchre.
tbl "Yesterglow."
Violin solos, ;:........ ...... Helen Ware
- The LITTLE Pansy" Cradle $, SONG.
tc) "Cinka Parma" Hungarian Fsntas1el,
Mr.. Ferry at the piano.
Soprano solos. -; ...... Ervine !. stensoh
r., The Door.
III silence"
90 "Nameless Pain
Gretchen Hood.
Mr.. stenson at the plano.
T., Prelude in 4. Fiat Major"
contralto solos -, ~ =. Charles t. Ferry
"a, Aspiration"
fbi The Battlefield.
'e' 'r'''''' Emile Mns ftirGM Nose''
Mr.. Ferry at the piano.
"a, "Eleeyy . ''' = > 'E''''N
hi "Whims"
(c) Song of the Homeland.
Margaret Day.
Mr.. Gloetzner at the piano,
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3GUE9HClI
STUDIOS OF WASHINGTON

ST. ALBAN'S QUARTET. AVAILABLE FOR
Sunday afternoon and evening services and
other engagements. Address b. s. Goodwin
w, Lenox st, Chevy Chase. Cleveland $50.
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No. 4-PlaceMent.

T occurs to me that in empha.
sizing the necessity for the re.
straint of the breath in singing
L / may seem to have fathered the
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A n especially poignant sketch of
\ the great master i'll his wretched
physical surroundings at the time
of his death is given in an anecdote
which tells of how Rossini, the Itai-
ian composer, had a short interview
with Beethoven in 1922. and the
Italian remarked later LAS | went
down the diiapidated stairs could
not repress my tears when thinking
OF his shabbiness and destitution.
%x
THE churches of Washington will
have musical memorial services
.
CONTINUED on Ninth Page.)
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Lewis Atwater. organist of All
Souls Unitarian Church, will give a
program Of French music at the
vesper service today at o'clock on
the memorial organ in that church.
The program viii last but half an
hour
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Sounding Brass

w WIEN Happiness Week y
n starts at Loews Palace The
NV alter today the stage will be
transformed into replica