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are lofty stature, which enables
them to gaze over the landscape
from the tall grasses Their soft
gray plumage, blending perfectly
with the almost ever-present haze,
makes them almost invisible.
Above, the rhea's head is almost
black, the slender neck white, be-
coming black at its base between
the shoulders. The plumage a
slatey gray above and becomes
white beneath. There are two black
lateral crescents, one on either side
of the upper breast.
The long slender legs and broad
feet enable the rheas to run smooth
ly. They sometimes meet disaster
in trying to race through the high
grass tussocks having tough vines
growing in them. The birds ex-
perience sudden tumble. If they
are trying to escape hunters, they
usually lose. A thong and balls,
known as the bolas, is thrown. 1t
strikes the bird with great force.
winding about its neck, wings and
legs, making escape impossible.
Rheas live in bands of from 5
to 40 individuals Where they have
been treated decently, they are
fearless, coming to the home. even
entering it and becoming on ex-
cellent terms with the domestic ami
mails. The great bird will follow
members of the family about like
a dog. 1t is their trustfulness that
has gotten them into trouble.
Few horses can overtake them.
and none can keep up the speed
a rhea will set when trying to
escape. When the bird is running,
the wings hang down as if injured;
sometimes. one wing is held aloft
like a sail-for what reason, no
one seems to know.
July is the courting month. The
females have one common nest in
which they deposit their eggs. It
is not unusual to find 120 eggs. The
cock does the incubating and takes
care of the young. 1t is dangerous
to go too close to Papa Rhea at
this time. He can give a terrific
kick with those long legs!
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Uncle RdYs Corner

This week I should like to 20
back to some of the stories of the
ancient Greeks. I want to tell
about heroes and gods who seemed
real to people Of long ago.
Among the Greek heroes was one
who could make more beautiful
music than ever had been heard
before. His name was Orpheus, and
we are told that he was the son
of the god Apollo.
The chief story about Orpheus
is very sad. Here is the way it
might have been told to you If
you had lived in Greece 2,40O years
ago:
"Orpheus, the great musician,
played the Tyre. His music would
charm any one who heard it.
'One day Orpheus met a fair
maiden named Eurydice, and de-
cided that he wanted to make her
his wife. Using his music to WOO
the maiden, he obtained her con-
sent and the marriage took place.
"A god who was supposed TO
give his blessing to the marriage
failed to do SO. Soon afterward the
dearly beloved wife was bitten by
a poisonous snake and died. Her
spirit passed to Hades, the world
of the dead.
Pull of grief, Orpheus travelled
to Mount Olympus and asked zeus
whether he could 60 in search Of
his wife and try to bring her back.
The father of gods said that he
could make the effort, but warned
him that he might not succeed.
Thanks to his music, Orpheus
was able to charm the three headed
dog which stood guard at the gates
of Hades. At last he reached the
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Orpheus charming Uild beasts
With his music.
throne of Pluto, who ruled the
gloomy underworld.
Pluto told the musician that he
could take his wife to the world
above, but added. She must walk
behind you, and you must not turn
TO look at her until she is out of
Hades.'
"Orpheus joyfully agreed to the
terms, and then set out on his re-
turn journey. AS he walked along,
he kept wondering how Eurydice
looked after her days in the king
dom Of Pluto. Then came mo-
ment when he forgot what the god
had said. He turned and caught a
glimpse of his wife. but on the
instant she began to fade away, to
drift deep into Hades Hard as he
tried, he could not call her back.
Forced to leave Hades alone.
Orpheus wandered about the earth.
Never again could he see Eurydice
until after his own death when
he, too, went to live among the
spirits
That story took its place among
many others told in ancient Greece.
1t points out fact which has lived
through time-we cannot call our
dear ones back from the grave
They can live in our memory, and
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the good they have done can still
tell its story, but we must 20 on
without the company Of those we
have lost.
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Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
COMMON RHEA
(Rhed dnlericQndD

Until a few short years ago, the
rheas were abundant on the Ar
gentine pampas and very numerous
within 40 miles of Buenos Aires.
Today, one must go several hun
dred miles from the capital to see
even one. Rheas are found through
out the Argentine republic, down
to the Rio Negro in Patagonia.
These giant birds are especially
fitted for the life they must live
on the level, woodless country. They
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ted to experiment with jan
styles, performances and instrr
ments to his hearts content. To
day he once again has a jazz Lab
oratory over the air-part Of a
new contractural arrangement
with Columbian which he tries
to widen the scope of his own
jazz art, as well as to provide an
outlet for new jazz works.
A stickler for accuracy, who i
concerned over the slightest de-
tail of performance, he drives his
men in rehearsal relentlessly be
fore he is satisfied with thef
playing.I Just as he likes his om
compositions to be terse, concis
to-the-point, so in his perfors
ances he wants cleanliness of d
tack, compactness, avoidance 4
all superfluities and instrument
excuses. He is a specialist in d
vising new sound effects, and b
is particularly sensitive to the
most subtle dynamics and tone
shadings. Even as a boy he USED
to go into strange moods at
unusual colors, lights or sounG
Today, one combination of sounS
can throw him into morbid o.
spair; another, will thrill him. he
is always experimenting at re
hearsals with timbres, colON
sonorities, pitch deviations, nal,
monies. He has often said uS
though composition is his map
interest, he will never aoanuOA
his work as leader of Jazz GU
semble because it affords mp
such wonderful opportunities ~
research, study, and eXperlms"
with jazz materials.
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diam, trumpeter Bunny Berigan
and drummer Johnny Williams.
These three formed the nucleus
of the Raymond Scott Quintet
when, in 1887, Scott decided to
90 on his own.
The Quintet caught on instant
ly. In April, of 1887, it made it's
first records, and these records
sold in hundreds of thousands,
rapidly becoming the fastest SELL
ing discs in the market. Personal
appearances in theatres became
for Scott personal triumphs. His
original pieces (the first he ex-
plotted was Twilight in Turkey'),
his novel arrangements, his metic-
ulously prepared performances all
sounded a new note for jazz, and
found appreciative audiences in
different strata of society. Sc
rious musicians like Stravinsky
and Jascha Heifetz became his
fans. With them were lovers of
good jazz throughout the whole
country, running the gamut from
Duke Ellington to the jitterbug
from Oshkosh.
A piece he wrote at the time,
called Eighteenth Century Draw
ing Room "a jazz modernization
of theme by Mozart-further
helped to make him a national
figure land incidentally was no
doubt responsible for a new wave
of crime thefts from the clas-
sics). He was called to Holly
wood by Daryl Zanuck and there
wrote music for land appeared
i'm pictures starring Eddie Can
tor and Shirley Temple. One of
the pieces he wrote for Shirley,
'Toy Trumpet, became another
national hit. But he didn't like
Hollywood, he didn't like the re-
strictions that were imposed upon
him, he didn't like the costumes
he had to wear, above everything
else he didn't like being pigeon
holed. He bought back his con-
tract and returned East for more
radio work. It was at this time
that he created for the Columbia
network the first of his jazz lab
oratories, in which he was permit
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own, and with further evolution
it will become major element
in our musical expression. Auth
entic jazz has a definite role to
fill in good American music.
when serious composers will begin
exploring all the possibilities of
jazz and will study it carefully
they will realize that it offers
them new and rich possibilities
for artistic self-expression. Equal
ly important, they will find an
audience of millions waiting to
hear their music, millions who
are sensitive to it, who under
stand it, and who-because they
grew up with it-feel that it is
a musical expression of their in
most selves"
BY jazz, Scott means not only
jazz rhythms, colors, and har-
monies as exploited in serious
music by such American compos-
ers as Gershwin, Grofe, and Nor
ton Gould. He means materials
which are even more Indigenous
to iazz than the "blue" cord or
syncopation, and which up to now
have been for the most part ig-
nored in serious music. There is
the new vocal" style of playing
wind instruments, the exclusive
discovery of the great jazz styl-
lists of New Orleans; there are
the new instrumental colors Gre
ated by jazz players through un-
orthodox ways of playing their
instruments (the trumpet "growl"
and "scream"); there are the new
harmonies achieved by jazz play
ers through their conscious con-
slant deviation from pitch. These
elements-and many others like
them-form rich language
which Scott has tried to incorpor-
ate into small pieces. Eventually
he hopes to do the same thing for
symphony, concerto, and perhaps
even opera. AS the first step in
this direction, he is working on
an original ballet called "The
Gremlins, his first large work.
ScOtt's Background
He has always felt that way
about jazz. His father, formerly
a concert violinist in Russia, own
ed a record shop in New York.
SCOTS boyhood was spent play
ing one jazz record after another.
The jazz that interested him even
then was not that of the popular
tunes of the day, with their ster-
eotyped patterns and anemic SEN
timents. He went for the hot
playing of jazz artists from New
Orleans and Chicago. He would
play these "hot" records again
and again, feeling them so per-
sonally that as he explains,
every part of me vibrated with
the nervous and excited strains
of the wailing trumpets and from
bones"
He attended Brooklyn Technical
High School, completing the four
year course in six and a half
years, largely because he discov-
cred a radio laboratory in the
school and spent all his spare
time fiddling around with exper-
iments instead of doing home
work. This fascination for science
has never abandoned him. Science
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is still his pet hobby He spent
a great deal of time and effort
in the study of radio reception
and the sounds that could be
transmitted over the microphone,
and as a result of that study has
been able to create numerous new
sound qualities. He is passion
ately interested in every phase
of recording. Everything he
writes, and everything he plays
with his ensemble, is put on rec
ords. He studies these records
carefully, dissects them with
microscopic thoroughness, an d
then makes improvements and
changes. Only recently he had
built, under his pers6nal super
vision, a special monograph in
his home which incorporates
self-recorder. He spends hours
listening to the recorded works
of the masters "a miniature score
in hand) studying their form and
Instrumentation. One of his bus
mess ventures is in the field of
record prescriptions. He even
enlists science in his composing.
He uses a special apparatus at
tached to the piano which auto
matically records on movable
tape the last one-minute of piano
performance. He will improvise
aimlessly on the piano and when
he feels that he has suddenly
caught a striking mood or COM
bination of tones he will listen to
the one-miunte throwback of his
improvisation, and then transcribe
it on paper if he feels it can be
useful. He talks about getting
several of these machines for the
purpose of experimenting with
contrapuntal writing, by record
ing one voice at time and then
playing several tapes simultane-
ously.
Upon his rather belated gradu-
alton from Brooklyn Technical
High School, he performed one
of his own pieces, Metropolis"
as part of the graduation exer-
cises. He had lately spent a
great deal of time improvising on
the piano, and in composing little
pieces. His brother Mark, now a
celebrity with the baton, felt
that there were signs of talent in
the boy and insisted upon a
thorough musical education. Scott
was sent to the Institute of
Musical Art where he remained
a few years.
He got job as house pianist
for the Columbia Broadcasting
System in 1880, still spending his
leisure hours in composing. One
of his pieces, Christmas Night in
Harlem" was featured by brother
Mark over the air in 1882. In
1896, Scott was performing with
a small jazz group which was
called upon to fill a spot in the
first network jazz program, Sat-
urday Night Swing. The group
included the trombonist Jerry
Colonna (now a famous come
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No more original or significant
influence in the jazz music Of the
past two decades has arisen than
Raymond Scott, whose radio pro-
gram, The Jazz Laboratory" is
a unique clearing house for mod
ern jazz techniques and styles. A
fresh, novel, unique figure, SCOTS
presence has been in invigorating
and celebrating tonic to the
rather tired and stodgy business
of making popular music.
Born as Harry Warnow of Jew
ish parents, Scott changed his
name when he entered popular
music so as not to capitalize on
the fame of his brother, Mark
Warnow, the celebrated radio
conductor. He succeeded in max
ing a name of his own-a name
now singularly famous and signif-
icant as composer, and as conduc-
tor of a jazz ensemble. AS COM
poser, he has written original
pieces which are brilliant projec-
tons of jazz styles and idoms
which, up to now had been con-
fined for the most part exclusive
ly to dance music. AS a jazz per-
former, he has given novel per-
formances in which all sorts OF
new sound effects and jazz effects
have been evolved particularly
over the radio microphone). In
short, Scott has done as much
for the development of jazz as an
important musical idiom as al
most any other single person.
And he has only just begun.
In personal contact there is
nothing to suggest the quality of
whimsy pervading his original
music. Of medium height, built
rather solidly, dressed in smartly
tailored clothes, he gives the i'm
preston of a very sound musician
who is sincere, integrated, honest
and driven by savage con-
science. Whether he talks about
himself in the first person or in
the third Che sometimes tells you
that Scott does this" or Scott
does that" almost as if Scott
were another person., he is al
ways conscious that he has an
artistic mission to perform. A
seriously trained musician (he
spent several years in a conserva-
tory he has an almost fantastic
believe in the artistic potential
ties of good jazz. Real jazz, he
once said to the present writer,
"is a language all it's own, with
it's own vocabulary, its own
idioms, its own accents. This
language is important artistically
important because it is Ameri-.
can to its very roots and speaks
for America. 1t is an art of its
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A Unique Force in
American Music
A Tribute To Raymond Scott
BY DAVID EVEN

Raymond Scott recognized today of the most
creative figures in popular American music From his
Eighteenth Century Drawing Room to his most recent
composition been hailed interpreter
folk spirit. Mr.. Even, musical chroncef
background this notable
musician
Editor
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
HOLLYWOOD
by ERSNINE JOHNSON

Dorothy Gaye is a Hollywood
night club singer who has been
dcvCting her time and talent to the
entertainment of Uncle Sans arm
cd forces. Not long ago she re-
ceived a call from the Hollywood
Victory Committee. A group of
soldiers at a lonely desert camp
near VictoeVille, Calf, were starv-
inc for entertainment She was on
her way few hours later,
Just as she arrived in Victorville
there was an urgent telephone call.
Her Army flyer husband had crack
ed up back in Los Angeles and was
seriously injured. Doctors gave
him little chance to live. Would
she hurry.
Stunned and frantic. si.e cried a
little and then Dorothy Gaye did
what she thought best For three
hours she sang and danced and
laughed with the soldiers Of that
lonely desert camp. Then she re-
turned to Los Angeles, reaching her
injured husbands bedside at
O'Clock in the morning to learn the
good news that he would live.
The Hollywood Victory Com
mittee was organized before Pearl
Harbor b. Charles Feldman,
Hollywood agent. 1t is doing a
tremendous job highlighted by the
Victory Caravan, the overseas
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
W.C.T.U. Meets
In HoI+viIIe

HOltVille will be host this week
to the county W.C.TU., at an all
day meeting, beginning at 1920
am. in the Methodist church.
Mrs. Ruth Gates, Mrs. Buene-
mier, state officers, and Mrs. Bes-
sic Lee Cowie, world missionary,
will be guest speakers.
Presidents C. the various unions
will report, and special music will
be featured on the program. Mrs.
Eldred Ferguson of Holtville, coun-
ty president will preside.
In the evening the banquet will
take place with Mrs C. C. Buck as
] toaStmistreSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
CALENDAR
MONDAY

Cactus GaveI club, 6:l5, Cali
fOrnia hotel.
American Legion Auxiliary, I,
10000 club.
Night school, 10, Central.
Carpenters, 1880, Labor temple.
EI Centre lodge No. 384, F and A.
NJ, 1880, Masonic temple.
TUESDAY
w. c. L. U. convention, 1880,
HOltville Methodist church.
st. Paurs Guild, l, 525 Wensley.
Night school, 10, Central.
Shrine Social club, $50, 473
Brighton.
Girl Scouts, I, Scout hut.
Jobs Daughters, 1880, Masonic
temple.
Central Labor council, 1870, Labor
temple.
J. v. Stamp and Coin club, 1880,
795 Main.
Business Women, 7:45, 142 North
Eighth.
American Legion, 3, Veterans hall.
Eagles, s, 465 Broadway.
Blue Star Women, 1880, Veterans
hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
Youngsters Enjoy
Easter Party
Dress Revivers

Ten little girls joined Kathleen
Magee, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo A. Magee, in an Easter party
Saturday afternoon at Kathleen's
home.
The youngsters made a charming
picture as they hunted for eggs to
fill the PRETTY Easter baskets, also
enjoying games and the refresh
mcnts served by Mrs. Magec.
Kathleen's guests included Lee
Ann and Judy Marshall, Elizabeth
Miller, Margaret McCracken, JAG
ouelin johnson, Gail Mackey, Glare
Louise and Virginia Ann Smith,
Beverly and Susan Percival and
their mothers: Mesdames Robert
Marshall, Rudolph Miller, II. K. Nc
Cracken, Paul Mackey, Walton
Johnson, c. L. Smith, Dee Percival
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
Couple Married
In Laundry

AMARILLO, Tex, April 26. CUP)
The sanitary romance of Lavonna,
the laundry room folder, and Har-
vic, the wash room romeo, came to
a SrotlcSs crd. They got married
Easter SuntS..
Their hearts GGat in 200 hip. time
as they l2bored in an Amarillo laun-
dry and teamed with ever" glance.
So when pretty LaVonna Dawson,
II, and Harvic Lee Johnson, 10,
decided to get married they cho3e
the laundry as a chapel.
The altar was a hamper, decor
atcd for the occasion. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Cooley
ArenGe D., WhC also operates the
manglo. Thomas Dunn, who works
in the wash room with Harvie, was
best man. Eleven truck drivers and
di i5ion SupcrintcndentS we're uSh-
erj to the 200 guestS.
The b idc wore white, or your
money back.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
LOVELY CANTATA

Among the special Easter services,
one of the most beautiful was the
cantata given by the Christian
church choir Sunday evening in the
church, the performance being
directed by George Burt, choir
director and also head of Central's
music department.
The Thorn Crowned King" Erred
B. Holton) was the cantata, and
was sung beautifully by the choir
and the following SoloiStS. Mar
garet Ann Henderson, Wilma
Jeanne Lakey, Vera Marie New
man, Mrs. James DUNCAN, Mrs. Ray
williams, Grayce Burt.
AS the climax to the cantata, the
senior choir sang the "Halleluia
Chorus" from the Messiah" Heard
also on the program, were the
members of the girls chorus,
directed by Wilma Jeanne Lakey,
in unfold Ye Portals" from
Gounods Redemption" and the
Won Berge He Lives Again"
FORMER DIRECTOR
James B. Fisher. former choir
director who was in the valley for
the Easter holidays, played the &C
compartment for Margaret Ann
HenderSonS solo.
In the background, adding to the
solemnity of the service was a
backdrop depicting the open tomb
with special lighting effects, and
the appearance and rc-appearancc
of the angel.
The offertory will go to a fund
tn be used for the purchase of
robes for the choir.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
Eighth Graders
Party Friday

Third in the series of recreation
parties sponsored by Wilson P.-T.A.
for the eighth grades, will take
place Friday night, o'clock, in
the high school gymnasium when
games and dancing, with many
prizes, will be in order.
All eighth graders are invited,
and Mrs. Ada H. StaatS'S 8-3A class
will serve as host class for this
party. Mrs. J. Christensen and
Mrs. Willie Johnson are the room
mothers in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
To Discuss Continuance of
Concert Series Next Year

for another year, the club must
have assurance, not only of the in
terest and desire of the public for
the series, but also of adequate
financial backing.
To all the ticketholders and to
tho patrons and patronesses and to
the various organizations and in
dividuals connected with this years
successful series, the directors have
expressed appreciation for their
support and cooperation.
In view, however, of wartime diff
ficulties in transportation etc. the
directors feel that they must have
practical assurance of success for
next year and have consequently
invited those interested to attend
the meeting and discuss the prob
lens with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26
Elks Plan Nav
Day Dance

Elks WI celebrate May Day, Sat
urday, with a dance to be held at
the lodge headquarters, beginning
at 10 pm, with a buffet supper
served at midnight.
Sherman Eldridge is chairman of
the dance committee, that group
arranging a gala evening for mem
bers and their guests.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-26

Continuation of the annual con-
cert series is a question troubling
the directors Of the Imperial Valley
Concert club, sponsoring organiza-
ton of this non-profit artists
series which concluded recently
with the Jacques Cartier recital.
Seeking am answer to this ques-
ton, the directors have called a
meeting fer Tuesday night, May 4
at 8 o'clock in the high school and
they have asked all season ticket
holders, all patrons and patronesses,
members Of the Imperial Valley
Music Teachers association which
serves as an advisory group. and
all others who may be interested
to attend the meeting.
If the concerts are to be booked