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If the stammerer can talk with ease when alone, and most of thein can, but staminers in the presence of others, it must be that in the presence of others he does something that interferes with Nature in the speech process. If then we know what it is that interferes, and the stammerer be taught how to avoid that. it must be that he is getting rid of the thing that makes him stammer. That's the philosophy of our method of cure. Let us tell you about it. SCHOOL FOR STAMMERERS, Tyler, Texas.

charges of professionalism within college football ranks and tennis, plus the recent golf fuss, a Broadwayite was heard to remark, "The only thing left on the level is fishing."

"Paradichlorobenzene" is the latest big word. It is used to describe a compound fatal to the peach-tree borer.

"All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder," says the Middlebury "Blue Baboon," "is the ladder."

Storekeeper: "Never argue with a customer as you did just now. Remember the customer is always right. What was it all about?"

New clerk: "Well, she started out by saying we were a bunch of low-down swindlers."

From "Judge:"

Wife: "John, why are you so delighted at his sliding to second base-do you know him personally?"

The Department of Labor in Washington reports that millions of workers in this country receive only $10.34 a week each. Lumber workers receive $17.17 for a week of 571⁄2 hours; 200,000 railroad laborers average $17; machine-shop laborers, $11.78; bituminous mine laborers, $10.34; woolen dyehouse workers, $21.98; boxboard factory workers, $23.90; blast-furnace employees, $23.34; foundry laborers, $25.25; and motorvehicle laborers, $28.73.

The advertisement of a chain grocery store in Missouri is a bit suggestive:

"Apples, oranges, imported nuts, fruit cake. Come in now and avoid the rush. The early bird gets the worm."

From the Zurich "Nebelspalter:" "What has become of Schmidt?" "He went to America and has made a name for himself there." "How?"

"He calls himself Smith now."

One of the English shoe factories reports that it has had to adopt special processes to insure squeakiness in new shoes in order to satisfy the Indian trade. It seems that a chief of the Chudasama tribe in India, who orders his shoes from London, by chance received a pair of the squeaky kind. His barefooted subjects were very much impressed by the chief's loud footwear, and now all the other Indian buyers are demanding shoes with a squeak, the squeakier the better.

"We'd never know some folks wuz on a vacation if they didn't come back," writes Abe Martin in his daily syndicated material.

Ruth rode in my new cycle car
In the seat in back of me;
I took a bump at fifty-five
And rode on ruthlessly.

Noville tells a story about an old Irish sergeant at Dayton, Ohio, who is known as the best parachute folder in the army. Folding a parachute correctly, so that it will break open immediately, is an art. All fliers must make at least one parachute jump a year, and always go to the old sergeant to get him to fold the parachute for them. He invariably tells them, "If this one doesn't work, come back and I'll give you another."

The minister was taking to task on the younger members of his flock. iam," he said, "I hear that you have 1 raising false hopes in several ma hearts. If rumor does not lie, you are gaged to one girl in this village, anothe Little Mudford, and a third in Ditchva How do you come to do such a thing?" William grinned uneasily. "Why, see, I've got a bicycle," he replied.

From "Life:"

"How did you find things down on farm this summer? Crops good, I hope "Well, father did fairly well on his 1 becue, but he just about broke even on gasoline and oil."

An analysis of the "situation in Chi by a British expert has been reprinted this country from "one of the big Lon dailies." It follows:

The report that Gen. Chang Cho Chung had broken off relations with G Chong Chung Chang is now found to incorrect. Gen. Cheng Chong Chung still fighting for Gen. Chung Chi Chang, and the General who has brok off relations with Gen. Chong Chu Chang is Gen. Ching Chung Chong I Gen. Chang Chong Chung. Gen. Chi Chung Chong has issued a public sta ment explaining that the reason he h broken off relations with Gen. Cho Chung Chang is because Gen. Cho Chang Ching has betrayed Gen. Che Chang Ching, whereas Gen. Chong Che Chang is still paying Gen, Chong Chi Chung a subsidy to prevent any fightn in Gen. Chong Cheng Ching's territor Gen. Ching Chung Chong has therefo decided to throw in his lot with G Chang Chong Ching and support Ge Chong Chung Chong in his alliance wi Gen. Chung Chong Ching.

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SYMPHONY NO. 1, IN C MINOR (Brahms). Played by the Philadelphia Symphony OrchesIn ten tra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. parts, on five records, with spoken analysis on sixth record. Victor. SYMPHONY NO. 8, IN B MINOR-"Unfinished", (Schubert). Played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. VicIn six parts, on three records. tor.

A good many people, having heard Stokowski's spectacular recordings of Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" and Weber's "Invitation to the Waltz," have no doubt been looking forward to something more substantial from the same orchestra and conductor. This month brings that something-twofold. By its performance of the Brahms symphony the Philadelphia Orchestra has filled a serious gap in electrically recorded music. There is already an electrical recording of the "Unfinished Symphony" available, but a performance as satisfying as this new one justifies its own appearance.

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The Brahms symphony is one of heroic dimensions. It needs an impressive reproduction-or else it is apt to sound ineffective. From this standpoint, the Philadelphia's performance is a fortunate Throughout the orchestra remains a towering giant. For instance, after the fortissimo passage for full orchestra in the slow introduction to the first movement, the solo oboe sounds puny. That is as it should be. It is a mistake in an orchestral recording to allow a single instrument to sound as near as in a chamber music con- · cert in a small room. And it is not that the oboe sounds too faintly, but that the full orchestra is so forceful. To get such volume, such a closeness of detail, and such a feeling of the nearness of the instruments is a real feat of orchestral recording.

In his conception of the symphony, Stokowski has shown a vivid sense of its nobility, of the struggle it portrays, and of its final mood of triumph. In the last movement he reaches his greatest heights. He builds up the movement steadily to an almost overpowering climax with the entrance of the choral-like theme, announced by the full orchestra. If Stokowski falls down anywhere, it is in the two middle movements. It seems as if he became too instilled with the bigness of the symphony; the orchestra appears to be shouting its message the whole time. In the second movement this lack of repression is especially noticeable. Stokowski does not always follow the score literally in the matter of observing pianissimos-and when he does depart, he is not always successful.

Though the recording was made in the Academy of Music, it shows little of the concert-hall echo which pleases some gramophiles and annoys others. Its brilliance perhaps makes unavoidable an occasional touch of hoarseness in the tone. One detail which is unfortunate is the beginning of Part 8. I cannot make out whether the horn soloist is flat (nearly half a tone flat, at that) or whether the recording instrument caused a faulty pitch. In either case, it is a pity to have such a blemish in a recorded performance which reaches the high-water mark in so many ways.

An interesting innovation is Stokowski's analysis of the symphony. Helpful explanations like this ought to be appreciated by many people.

Schubert's ever-beautiful "Unfinished Symphony" receives exquisite, if less fierce, treatment from the baton of the Philadelphia conductor. In speaking of the Brahms symphony, Stokowski says:

"Brahms loved melody so much that often he combined two or more melodies together at the same time." Somehow, that sentence peculiarly fits Schubert. Schubert's counterpoint is so lyric that one sometimes 'catches one's self vainly trying to hum both melody and counter-melody together! Stokowski and the Philadelphians have made a performance of this symphony worthy to be a standard by which to judge others.

PARSIFAL-Good Friday Spell (Wagner). Played by the State Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conducted by Siegfried Wagner. In three parts, on two records, the fourth part being DIE MEISTERSINGER—Apprentice's Dance (Wagner).

Odeon.

This is an unexpectedly gratifying performance. The interpretation shows an understanding of the spiritual quality inherent in the Good Friday music. Little of Wagner's music contains the feeling of reverence which is found in this excerpta mood in many ways the same as that of his "Siegfried Idyll." The orchestra is worth hearing. Its wind band has a nicety of balance, and its stringed instruments a soft, silky tone quality. The "Meistersinger" selection-one of the most delightful passages of the opera-is played with lightness and delicacy. Is not familiarity with contemporary and almost-contemporary popular music a handicap? For instance, near the end of this record the brasses solemnly announce the opening half-dozen notes of "Where Did You Get That Girl?" (A few months ago I was accused of implying that Beethoven cribbed from Sir Arthur Sullivan. I hope no one will accuse me now of suggesting Wagner's dependence on American ragtime.)

MINUET-Opus 14, No. 1 (Paderewski); MOON

LIGHT SONATA, Opus 27, No. 2-Adagio
Sostenuto (Beethoven). Played by Ignace Jan
Paderewski. Victor.

When Paderewski plays, we learn that to be a great pianist is not so much a matter of perfect fingering as it is of sureness and eloquence in interpretation. His familiar, tuneful minuet becomes first as light as gossamer, then as thunderous as artillery. Does not hearing the first movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" make one impatient to have him play it to the finish? Perhaps he will for us, later. The piano reproduction seems better in the minuet than in the sonata; that is probably because the middle register, which is the hardest to record, is more prominent in the sonata. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE WELCOMES COLONEL LINDBERGH-Washington, D. C., June 11, 1927. Address by President Calvin Coolidge. In three parts, on two records, the fourth part being COLONEL LINDBERGH REPLIES TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. Address by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Victor. ADDRESS BEFORE THE PRESS CLUB, Washington, D. C., June 11, 1927. Address by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. In two parts. Victor.

There is something quite stirring about the surging, high-pitched enthusiasm of those who welcomed Colonel Lindbergh, even when their cheers are frozen into wax. These three discs reproduce what was actually sent into the ether by the National Broadcasting Company. It is interesting historically, not only because of the occasion but as an example of the art of radio broadcasting in 1927.

THE MESSIAH-Worthy is the Lamb (Handel); ELIJAH-He Watching Over Israel (Mendelssohn). Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, directed by Anthony C. Lund. Victor. These are as different from the early electrical Mormon Tabernacle Choir recordings as day is from night. The voices are well-balanced, they have volume, and they

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HEBREW MELODY (Achron): ZAPATEA (Sarasate). Played by Jascha Heifetz. V LA ROMANESCA (Gaillarde); SOUVENIR | MOSCOW (Wieniawski). Played by Mis Piastro. Brunswick.

There is something infectious in t gayety of "Zapateado”—and something u canny in the violinist's skill which it u covers. The "Hebrew Melody" is slow more expressive, and brings into acti Heifetz's rich lower tones. Its piano a companiment is worthy of attention. Pia tro's two selections are simple and melod and are played sensuously.

LULLABY (Rossetti-Scott); I WOULD WEA
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A SONG FOR YOU (Adams-O'Hara).
by Claire Dux. Brunswick.
IL BACIO (Arditi); CIRIBIRIBIN (Pestalozz
Sung by Lucrezia Bori. Victor.

Sung softly to a rocking, rhythmic pia accompaniment, "Lullaby" is a charmi song. The other three selections on the two records are either mediocre or trashy

SOLILOQUY (Bloom); WHEN DAY IS DO (Katscher). Played by Paul Whiteman his Concert Orchestra. Victor. "Soliloquy" is an interesting bit of chestration in the jazz idiom. Its cold are bizarre; its harmonies pungent. T use of two pianos as an instrumental gro and of reed instruments as percussion serve comment. "When Day Is Done," s to relate, is saccharine, played in wh might be called "late Paramount style." HEAR, DE LAM'S A-CRYIN'; EZEKIEL SĄ DE WHEEL, (Negro Spirituals, arranged Lawrence Brown.) Sung by Paul Robe and Lawrence Brown. Victor.

Robeson's singing contains a spiritu quality (I am using "spiritual" as an a jective, not a noun) which puts it in t class of really great music. "Hear. Lam's A-Cryin'," sung as a duet with accompanist, has this quality. "Ezek Saw de Wheel" offers sharp contrast, bei more in the style of the usual colored qua tet repertory.

IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON-St. Margar Chimes, Westminster; Oh God, Our Help Ages Past. Played by Stanley Roper. Vict A record that is worth hearing and ow ing, in my humble opinion, merely becau it records Big Ben striking nine-nine ve wonderful musical tones.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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