Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1921, Page 72

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION - JANUARY 30, 1921, AMONG US MORTAL Music Hath Charms By W. E. HILL (‘ Fr— (3 A 4 The parlor prima donna who has to be teased and teased before she will sing. Once she is started on her reper toire of Swedish folk- songs and German lieder it takes a great deal of tact and no lit- tle determination to stop her. Her best high notes emanate from comewhere in back of the bridge of her nose. Miss Pearl Mae ILa Toye, of the musical La Toyes, instrumen-- talists de luxe. is obliging with that classic _of the two-a- day, “Darling, I Am Growing Old,” and maybe she won't get a hand! The singing society quartet doing the jolly song that puts everybody in a happy mood, even the singers—the song with the snappy lyric all about a “hey, and a hey. dorry., dorry down.” The Reverend M is being too killing for words, and has Miss Grayce Klaw, the soprano. so fussed she can't sing a note! Lily and her music teacher are getting along famously with “Carnival of Venice" arranged for a duet. Lily is only one bar behind, but she’ll catch up in a minute or two At the age of four years about the great- est musical treat in the world is grand ma’s rendering of “A Penny for a Spool of Thread.” It takes a little coaxing, but it's well worth the trouble. Something in the nature of a musical treat is in store for the music lover who has the good fortune Harry is one of those clever guys who play by ear “Her mother was a Miss Sands from Baltimore-—she married one of the Rich He can hear a tune and go right to a pianc play mond Vinings—and her grandmother was simply nobody at all. She's the : who has the fortun it—that is. by using the same bass for everything one just sitting down.” etc., etc. *“Celeste Aida” may have a lure for the top :o )}:_ear ?ftnvr}l'el dl-;l‘f man singing “The Love Nest and making up a bar here-and there. It's a gift balcony, but the occupants of Mrs. Harry de Logsey Ball’s box are much more DEImsc R AT estavIng, interested in a box party further up the line All vocal music seems to have a purely nega- tive charm for little Toto unless he can join in and be part of it Joe, the jaz ‘nthusiast, has bought a new record Only The man who sits next you in the theater and hums the music along with the orchestra. the size of the opening prevents Joe from get- 2 i ith his feet. ght inside the Victrola. Also likes to keep time witl o e e GRS