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RECORD REVIEWS
Old Worhorses Shine
With New BriIIionce
The Intimate French

zewski. He is making a re-
cording name for himself be-
fore we have learned to pro-
nounce his own Polish han
die.
The latest is Schubert's
great Symphony No. Z in c
major. 1t is here admirably
done, with the close atten-
ton to detail and unpreten-
tious reading this conductor
has shown us in the past.
Almost as good as the great
Cleveland release, and
that is high praise indeed.
Those PhiladeIphianS
Another example of up
graded oldies comes on a
Columbia record Of the Phil
adelphia Orchestra playing
Strauss Don Juan and
Death and TRANSPORTATION.
You'd think you had heard
the last word in these, from
this orchestra and others.
But there still is a new di-
mension in sound-depth you
will hear from these pieces,
beautifully nodded by Eu-
gene Ormandy.
Ernest Bloch and Victor
Herbert as record mates
seems improbable. But Mer-
curry has them back-to-back
with the formers Schelomo
and the latter's Second Cello
Concerto played by Georges
Miquelle, cellist, and the
EaStman-Rochester Orches-
ira, Howard Hanson con-
Quoting.
Again, let us say these
not-quite-so-old pieces get a
fresh start. The voluptuous
Schelomo never sounded
more dramatic, and the Her
bert concerto never so sweet
as in these impeccable per-
formanceS.
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Corcorun Gallery

Now on view in the small
room where the Corcoran
Gallery of Art usually hangs
its one man shows of area
artists is the current exhi-
bition of the Friends of the
Corcoran.
This show was chosen in
a rather unusual way. Pic
lures were submitted by in
dividual Friends. All sub
mitted works had to be for
sale at less than 81, 900. From
the 81 submissions. 81 paint
ings and sculptures were
chosen for the show by the
art critics of the Post and
The Star, with the Friends
and their guests voting as a
body when the two critics
disagreed, which they did
slightly more often than one
out of three times.
No "DoubtfuIs"
The chief difficulty with
this system is that it elimi-
mates the vital category of
Doubtful, without which very
few art shows would ever be
juried. In normal art jury
procedure, perhaps S per cent
of submissions are accepted
for exhibition at first glance.
Perhaps 10 per cent are re-
jected out of hand. This
leaves IS per cent to be
looked at again and to be
against one another
as well as against any abso-
lutte standards that may ap-
ply. At the Corcoran affair,
there were no doubtfuls and
the pictures and sculptures
were seen in isolation, one at
a time and one time only.
In view of the universal
experience of art juries, it
seems certain that had there
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lures and most of the rest
are really more at home at
home than in a museum.
The great exception to this
quality of intimate reflection
in the Meyer pictures is, as
you might expect, the Rem
brandt. The portrait of
Petronella Buys, painted in
1885, is a public object. The
lady is up to her chin in
pearls and lace for the oc-
casion and the face is es-
sentially a public face.
The Intimate French
How different the French.
The difference is evident
even in the 18th century
materials. Even the Boucher
portrait of a nobleman-
painted with Boucher's total
mastery of his craft-pre-
tends to an intimacy that
was probably impossible for
Boucher to feel honestly. The
Marquis de Marigny is
painted as if we were secretly
watching him mediate on
his reading.
The intimate quality Is
strongly present in the
Daumier painting Of two
comedians. They are seen
close to, on stage, with
costume, make up and thea,
trical lighting presented as
precisely those things. not as
elements in a successful IL
lusion. This is an approach
to theater that Degas was to
make much of later in the
century. The most public of
the observation-disclosures a
private, intimate thing.
Typically, the Degas group
portrait Of the Mante family
shows Nine. Mantle fixing the
costume Of her child dancer,
Suzanne, an off-stage mo-
ment Of an on-stage life.
Similarly, the superb portrait
Of Mary Cassatt has an off
guard quality about it. Cas-
satt leans forward, arms on
her lap, utterly preoccupied,
completely herself, not at all
a portrait subject.
The landscapes, too, have
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New Schubert Seventh
PROGRAMS OF THE WEEK

Werle; Pipers and Sword Dance,
traditional; Funiculi, Funicula. Den
"a; II Bersagliere, Boccalari; Ching
Hal, arr. Miranda; Planting Rice,
arr. Kepner; Moon Over the Old
Castle, arr. Genuchi; Japanese Navy
Nestico: Aloha, arr. Nestico; Stars
and Stripes Forever, Sousa; May the
Good Lord Bless and Keep You,
NITED STATES ARMY BAND. 1t.
Col. Hugh Curry, conductor. Solo
lists: Harley Rex, saxophone: Joey
Trabucco, tenor (vocaD. Watergate,
$50 pm. Shield of Liberty March,
Richards; Overture to Abu Hassen.
Weber: Something in the Wind. Ka-
ler; Prelude and Movendo, Rex:
Repasz Band March, Sweeley: Esq
pana Rhapsodie. Chabrier; Selections
from the Student Prince, Romberg;
Latin American Medley. Croy; I
Feel Song Comm On, McHugh;
lorna A Surriento, Curtis; My Fair
Lady Medley. Loewe: Chorale and
Fugue in @ Minor, Bach-Abert.
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this informal, at home,
quality. 1t derives in part
from the light. The Corot
farm scene glistens with sill
yer light. The Monet, a dis
tant view of the hillside town
of Bordighera framed in
nearby branches, glows in
amethyst and opal tones. The
PiSSarro view of Pontoise, on
the road to Auvers, radiateS
the coolest spring light you've
ever seen. Through light,
these three painters present
not only places but also
moments.
The three Van Gogh pic
lures have this personal
quality to a very. high de-
gree. The dance hall scene
noted above is thronged with
heads and shoulders under
a pattern of lighted globes.
The crowded heads become a
pattern themselves, but at
the same time the picture
forces us to be all but present
in the scene ourselves. Dis
tance is destroyed; the swirl
of people fills the entire room
and comes right up to our
own eyes.
Completely Personal
1.-THE Bridge at Trinque-
taille" likewise involves the
viewer through a roadway
and a parapet which sweep
toward us from the distance
and place us upon the road
almost about to collide with
a girl coming toward us, face
hidden. The sky and the
Rhone River throb with a
vibrant yellow and green
that is completely personal,
completely convincing.
The third Van Gogh, a
vase of field flowers, was
painted in the last few weeks
of the artists life and re-
cords the energy of sunlight
and vegetation as energy of
paint.
PrOgrammatic
The intimate quality of the
entire collection becomes
programmatic-and very sue
cessfully so-in the two Bon
nards and one WILLARD. In
one Bonnard. oddly enough,
again the public art of the
theater is seen in a private
moment, after the play, as
a lady steps through a mar
row doorway to join her
waiting companion.
Finally, there is a haunt
ing PicaSso of 1905, a por-
trait of a circus boy re-
garding the world timidly
and with trepidation.
Other delights in this fine
collection include two deco
rative floral panels by Renoir,
a portrait and two land
scapes by Cezanne, and a
Manet portrait.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Our First Big Jazz
Festival q Fine TN
By IRVING LOWENS
star Music Critic

Now that Washingtons first International Festival
Is past history, it is time for the post mortems.
The obvious first question is: Was it a success?
The obvious answer. it to me, vehement but
qualified affirmative.
The Presidents Music Committee sponsors of the festi-
val successfully achieved their stated goal which
provide national recognition Of Jazz through the creation
festival in the Nations Capital which will explore the
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ART AND ARTISTS
Meyer Collection
At National Gallery
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

Open to the public today the second private collection
in the series begun at the National Gallery
Last years show the Mr. and Mrs Averen Hartman
collection with its strong representation of Andre
Walt Kuhn The show opening today the coec-
ton of Mr. and Mrs Andre Meyer.
The location of the Meyer collection the east wing of
the National Gallery makes handy the 18th century
French pictures owned by the Gallery itself The Meyer
collection although it has Rembrandt portrait and
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number of 18th century
French works. takes its main
direction from the French
painters of the second half
of the 18th and early years
of the Goth century.
Stolen by Nazis
The collection is the second
one Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer have
assembled. The first, which
they began acquiring in Paris
about 40 years ago, was taken
by the Nazis during World
War II as part of their one
way cultural exchange pro-
gram in occupied France.
Few of the stolen paintings
have been recovered; most of
the works now on view at the
National Gallery have been
collected since the war.
The Meyer collection DEM
onstrates once more that the
French, from about the mid
die of the last century
through the first few decades
of this one, produced what is
perhaps the most comfortable
art in human history.
Aesthetic BreakthrOughs
We lose sight of this when
we think of the period in
terms Of new technical de-
partures from accepted art
methods and of aesthetic
"breakthroughs." Certainly
there were departures and
breakthroughs. But more
than most and infinitely
more than the Salon art it
rebelled against, French art
of this period became pre-
eminently art to live with,
to look at quietly and ap-
preciatively. to enhance a
domestic interior. to attract
and sooth the eyes and the
mind Tuy0 Of thu AEavo,. ,1in
tures-a Van Gogh and a
Gauguin-have been given to
the Louvre and the Louvre
is fortunate to have them.
The Gauguin is one of the
first works the artist painted
on his arrival in Tahiti. The
Van Gogh is an extraordi-
nary scene of a dance hall
at Aries. But both these pic
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$500 DOAAAACNNA NLoSo
Performance Today
Alexander Of Mckinley High;
and Montgomery County by
Ben HO of Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School. Mrs.
JOuett ShOuse, sponsor of the
recent First International
Jazz Festival and many other
musical affairs, was made an
Honorary Fellow of the
American University Music
Department on May 80 in
recognition OF her good
works. -. The University
of Maryland yesterday con-
ferred upon Richard Rodgers,
composer and producer, the
honorary degree of Doctor of
Music in recognition of his
contributions to American
theater. Harold Spivacke,
Chief of the Music Division
at the Library of Congress,
has received an award of
merit for distinguished serv-
ice to American music from
the National Association for
American Composers and
Conductors.
"a -
BITS AND PIECES-The
ASCAP- -Stravinsky Scholar
ship, a five-year program
established by ASCAP to
honor the 8Oth birthday of
Igor StravinSky on June II,
will provide $1,000 worth of
tuition each year to a scholar
or music school designated
by the composer. Noah
Greenberg, director of the
New York Pro Musica, is one
Of, eleven choral directors to
share in a Ford Foundation
grant of nearly 100000. He
will use his share to prepare
productions of large 18th and
l6th-century choral works by
the Motet Choir and Wind
Ensemble of the New York
Pro Musica. The Rookie
feller Foundation this year
has added $4,000 to the
$46,000 it has given the New
York Pro Musica in grants
over the last five years.
Bowling ranks second
to amateur music-making in
the United States, according
to the American Music Con-
ference. Canada will have
its own MacDOwell Colony,
administered by the Canada
Council, thanks to the gen.
erosity of Miss Olivia Ter
rell of Cambridge, Mass. Her
summer residence, Stanley
House, near New Richmond,
Quebec, will be the center.
Three Governors General of
Canada have used the man
sion as a residence since 1888.
Theodore PreSser Com
pany will have exclusive right
to publish william Schu-
mans musical compositions
for the next 10 years.
BULLETIN BOARD - DR..
William S. Newman, profess
sor Of piano at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, will
conduct a workshop at Amer
lean University this week,
June IA, is, and 16. Details
may be had from the music
department at the univer-
sity. DIR. Richard Werder
of the music faculty at
Catholic University will di-
rect the one-day Workshop
of the Maryland State Mu-
sic Teachers Association to
be held at Peabody Con-
Servatory in Baltimore on
June %. Talented young
violinists may apply for
String Fellowships at the
Berkshire Music Center. The
fellowships pay tuition and
dormitory charges for the
eight-week course in chamber
music and orchestral playing.
Applications and inquiries
should be addressed to Regis
trar, Berkshire Music Gen.
ter, Symphony Hall, Boston,
is, Mass.
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In E-Flat for Band, Hoist: C'est Moi,
from Camelot, Loewe; Percussion
Espagnol, Prince; New Post Horn
Galop. Barsotti; Selections from
West Side Story, Bernstein.
ROBERT GURALNIR, piano. The Phil
lips Collection, $40 pm. Humor-
eske-Bagateller, Nielsen; Sonata in
A Minor, Op. 1874. Schubert; soma
tina Q93D, KoutZen; Five Preludes
(194D. Fine; Sonata in C, Scarlat-
q: Sonata in E, Scarlatti; Sonata
in Minor, Scarlatti Sonata
1852, Ginastera,
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SUNDAY, JUNE II

For Further Details Consult Next
Sundays Listings)
PHOENIX CHOIR. Mrs. Frank G.
Meuer. director. Washington Cathe-
dral, 4 pm.
JEAN AND GEORGE Foss. folk sing
ers. The Phillips Collection. pm.
PAUL. CALLAWAY, organ. Washington
Cathedral. 5 pm.
JEANNE GAGE, soprano; Robert
Paris. piano. National Gallery of
Art, pm.
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TUESDAY

-NITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND
and Singing Sergeants Chorus, Col.
George s. Howard, conductor. Solo
Plaza, s pm. An Air Force Portrait,
arr. Werle; Hands Across the Sea,
Sousa; Au pres de ma Blonde, arr.
Gastyne; French National Defile,
Turlet: In Muenchen Steht Elm Hof-
brau Haus, arr. Werle: Old Com
rades, Teike; Erika, arr. Werle; Auf
March, Afford; When Irish Eyes Are
Smiling, Ball; Loeb Lomond, arr.
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THURSDAY

rNITED STATES NAVY BAND, 1t.
Anthony Mitchell, conductor with
Isaac Cook, Eugene Steinbach. Will
liam II. Allen, Bert Dameron, guest
conductors. Soloists: Jimmie GhOlson,
William Gillum. Karl Alexander,
pm. Parade of the Characters.
from Ben Hur, Rosa; Tampa over
ture. Herold; Russian Dance, from
Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky; Clarinet
Concerto No. 2, Weber: Can-Can
Selections. Porter; Introduction to
Bamba de Vera Cruz. Tucci; The
Parrott, Abreu; Concertino, Weber;
Themes from Rigoletto. Verdi; Hun
garian Rhapsody No. 2, List.
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FRIDAY

OTsH6R PH6RY YskHg 6kCHEsARA AZ F3RcE CaRt JoS9
YesulaitiS, conductor. Watergate,
$50 pm. Roman Carnival Overture,
Berlioz; Symphony No. in
italian Symphony, Mendelssohn;
Selections from West Side Story.
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BY HERMAN SCHADEN
Star Record Critic


Thanks to ever-improving
sound and recording tech
niques, there often is some
thing new emerging from
even the most time-honored
warhorses of the so-called
classical repertory.
So it is with some Of to-
days oldtimers reviewed ID
here, notably a Tchaikovsky
Fifth Symphony as played by
the London Symphony, Antal
Dorati conducting. Until re-
Gently Mercury Records was
bringing us Dorati as con-
ductor of the Minneapolis
Symphony. The two still are
united even though Dorati
has moved to another part
of the world.
Anyone wishing a fresh
Fifth cannot do better. We
doubt if it has been turned
out with more dynamic
thrust, mercurial shifts in
tempt, dynamic power and
rich Sonorities than are
wrapped up in this disk.
Dorati and the Mercury en-
gineers really breathe new
life into the melodic old ia
vorite.
New Schubert Seventh
While back in the States,
Mercury hasn't forgotten the
Minneapolis and its new con-
ductor, Stanislaw Skrowace-
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TOMORROW

Anthony Mitchell, conductor. Solo
lists: Ben Mitchell Morris, tenor
(vocaO; Frank Seimonelli, posthorn
Capitol Plaza, s pm. Allies on the
March, from Victory at Sea. Rodg-
srs; zamps Overture. Herold; The
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spectrum of jazz and indi-
cate its influence throughout
the world"
A tremendous amount Of
interest in jazz was aroused,
and the fortunate conjunc-
tfon of events which brought
many of the best jazzmen in
the game to Washington at
the same time that Benny
Goodman reached the Soviet
Union hit the front pages
everywhere.
Diversified Program
Programs were widely di-
versified. Standard festival
type giant jamfests"
brought the crowds to our
most improbable cultural
emporium, the Washington
Coliseum, but there were also
many other events. Jazz bal
let, symphonic jazz, church
Jazz, chamber jazz, way out"
Jazz, primitive jazz, and jazz
influenced non-jazz could be
heard in ample measure else
where.
International jazz influ-
ence was plain in the pres
ence of many distinguished
foreign listeners as well as in
the playing Of two expert
imported combos, the Wreck
ers (from Poland and the
Chris Barber Band (from
England.
Top Brass
Highspots in the 41a-day
show Gin approximate order
Of Importance were:
i. The debut of the Jazz
Ballet Theater directed by
Lee Becker;
2. The first appearance
outside New Orleans Of the
tabled Eureka Brass Band;
8. Gunther Schuller's
Journey Into jazz" a work
commissioned by Broadcast
Music, Inc, for the Jazz for
Young Audiences" concert at
Constitution Hall;
4. Sonny Rollins inspired
tenor sax;
5. Meyer Kupferman's I'm
finities" at the Library of
Congress;
6. Jimmy Giuffre's uneven
but imaginative clarinet
quintet, another BMI COM
mission, also at the Library.
Poor Facilities
All was not perfection by
any means, however.
While the doings in the
Coliseum sharply pointed up
the lack of adequate facili-
ties here for this type of
event, I am not at all sure
that such marathons, COM
plete with beer and snow
balls, should be repeated.
Jazz is not well served by
these endless parades of IA
nous figures for the most
part playing routine Selec-
tions familiar to every afici-
onado, in an atmosphere
where nobody can concen-
trate on music. "Jazz at the
Coliseum" could well be
abandoned, so far as I am
concerned.
Improvisation fine in jazz
but murder in management
was all too prevalent in
the way in which most of
the sessions we're run. The
order in which bands made
their appearance was COM
pletely haphazard; they held
the stage as long as they felt
they could; selections we're
announced, mumbled, or not
revealed at all as the spirit
moved.
Rat-Race Ramble
An appalling example of
complete anarchy came In
the potentially fascinating
jazz for the Small Ensem-
BILE" concert at Cramton. AL
though everyone heard was
worth hearing, the affair
rambled on for an incredible
31a hours without an inter-
mission, exhausting even the
most enthusiastic devotees of
cool and experimental jazz
and driving about a third Of
the audience away in the
process.
The scheduling was so
amateurish that many events
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overlapped-on the final day,
many at the Coliseum missed
the Library of Congress af-
fair or part of it, and many
who were in the Coolidge Au-
ditorium had to go hungry
in order to hear the jazz
liturgy.
In one instance, the festi-
val even succeeded in compet-
ing with itself, offering the
Jazz Ballet Theater's final
performance and the second
Coliseum session simultane-
ously.
Some Suggestions
In anticipation of more
w a S h ington International
Jazz Festivals to come, I
would offer the following
suggestions in a constructive
spirit:
/. Eliminate Jazz at the
Coliseum" and similar cir
cuSeS;
2. Hold the Festival at a
different time of year so that
Constitution Hall and the
Lisner Auditorium can be
used by audiences and musi-
clans with no risk of being
boiled alive;
8. Each event should be
carefully planned and pro-
grammed for maximum mus
ical impact;
4. No more than three
bands should appear in any
single event;
S. No single event should
last for more than two hours;
6. No more than two events
should be scheduled in any
one day;
Z. No two events should
conflict In time;
8. The Festival should ex-
tend over a week or 10 days,
with some provision for free
time.
Make no mistake about
it the International Jazz
Festival was a significant
cultural phenomenon. 1t
proved that jazz and rowdy-
ism are completely unre-
lated, despite stories to the
contrary, and it enabled
thousands Of people to ex-
perience a thoroughly legiti-
mate aspect of the American
musical heritage. If its spon-
sors learn from their 1862 ex-
perience, the Second Interna-
tional Jazz Festival should
turn out to be even more
significant.
NEWS FROM HERE-The
late George Antheil's last
work, CabeZa de Vaca, re-
ceives its world premiere to-
day in a special one-hour
program over CBS-TV
CWTOP; Channel 81 at 10
am. Scored for orchestra.
chorus, and soloistS, the mu-
sic describes the travels in
Florida and the American
Southwest Of the 16th-cen-
tury Spanish explorer. Al
FredO Antonini conducts.
The Boxwood Concert tonight
presents George Shearing
and his Quintet in his first
full concert in the Washing
ton area for more than five
years. The affair is a benefit
for the Mt. Vernon Unitarian
Church. Open rehearsal
at the Washington Cathe-
dral from 8 to 10 pm. to-
morrow with Richard Dirk
sen directing Part II of
Haydn's The Seasons. The
Navy Band under 1t. Anthony
Mitchell presents a Washing
ton Area Soloist Festival at
the Watergate on Thursday
night. The soloists, all high
school clarinetistS, were Sc
lected as the best in their
counties, and will be playing
under the direction of the
band director of the schools
they attend. Prince Georges
County will be represented by
Jimmy GhOIsOn of Fairmont
Heights High School; Fair
fax by William Gillum of
Mt. Vernon High School;
District of Columbia by Karl
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Donelson F. Hopes, until
recently director of the Port
land CMe) Museum Of Art,
has been appointed. curator of
exhibitions at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
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eff we lived here It would
be loaded with beer cans
BY now.
needlepoint that Is badly out
of shape. Does anyone know
where I can get o frame suit
able to stretch the needle
point into the proper shape7
Thank you for any help.
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Ghunu Ambassador
Feted at Farewell

assisting Ghana in building
the giant Volta barrase.
After the dinner. o big
cake with green icing was
presented to Ambassador
Hahn.
Miss Joyce Bryant, o
Washington soprano, sang Q
solo "Alleluia."
Also presented to Ambas-
Sador Hahn was q scroll with
the signatures Of all the
guests upon 1t. It was the
work Of Miss Cleomine Lewis,
q Washington artist.
Present ct the dinner were
the Chief Of Protocol and
Mrs. Angler Biddle Duke.
The latter appeared In .
pink sari. She said that she
had been wearing saris for
is years and felt quite ct
home" in them.
Mrs. Hahn already has left
the United States The Am
baSSador's youngest daugh-
ter. Lucy, was at the head
table. She plans to stay In
Washington for some time.
Co-chairmen Of the dinner
committee were Miss Rose
marie Tyler and Mrs. John
c. Carr. Other members in
cluded Mrs. Pedro San Juan,
wife Of the Assistant Chief
Of Protocol.
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watermelon seeds, spread
them to dry on paper towels
and then store them In tin
containers until winter.
The birds seem especially
appreciative Of cantaloupe
seeds, but the cardinals enjoy
watermelon seeds, too. Us
ually I mix the home dried
seeds with mixed wild bird
seed and every bit Is greedily
gobbled up.
I've made a habit Of saving
stale slices Of bread. Then I
dry them out, and when food
is scarce for the birds, I soak
the pieces Of bread in milk or
meat grease and put it out
with other food.
Judging from the speed
with which 1t disappears, I
am sure 1t Ii gratefully re-
ceived.