PRESTO-TIMES
December 24, 1927
Clarke, Albert Morrison, Louis Hollinger and
Charles Healey.
The production at the Minturn-Central will be the
Dixie Trio, Popular Kings of Harmony, Write in first in Chicago and the advance demand for tickets is
said to be so large that it has been necessary to
Appreciation of "Carolina."
arrange special performances for the first two weeks.
The letters below, the originals of which are on There will be two special matinees on December 26
file in the offices of the J. S. Unger Music House, and January 2, and in addition to the regular per-
publishers, Reading, Pa., come from the well known formance New Year's Eve, Saturday night, Decem-
and popular "Kings of Harmony," known as the ber 31, at 8:30, there will be a special midnight per
"Dixie Trio" of Danville, 111.:
formance at 11:15.
"Danville, 111., October, 1927.
"J. S. Unger Music House,
WINS ATWATER KENT PRIZE
"Dear Sir:—
The Atwater Kent prize of $2,000.00 and a year's
"In reply to yours of October 10-27. Wish to free tuition was won December 11 by Ted A. Roy,
thank you for the orchestrations sent us. Also wish the singing blacksmith of Corvallis, Ore. The finals
to advise that starting tomorrow we are going to use of the National Contest were held in the studios of
both numbers—using them alternately.
the National Broadcasting Company. Mr. Roy, who
"We find them both real good numbers, and we is but twenty-two years old, won the prize singing
are especially interested in 'Carolina' and are giving Oscar J. Fox's cowboy song, "The Hills of Home."
it the feature place on our program. You may rest He sang this song in the preliminary sectional con-
assured that the Trio will do all they can to assist tests as well, where he took first place. It is singu-
you in pushing these numbers and any others that larly appropriate, that ,the song this young man
chose was written by an American composer. It was,
you may publish in the future.
Thanking you for past favors, and wishing you in fact, the only song by an American, and the only
copyright song, to be used in the Finals of the Con-
continued success, we are,
test.
"Yours very truly,
" T H E DIXIE TRIO."
CYMBALS OF PREHISTORIC ORIGIN.
Still another letter from "The Dixie Trio," Dan-
ville, 111., dated November 17, '27.:
The cymbal is the oldest musical instrument in ex-
"I haven't had time as yet, to go to any of the istence and goes back to prehistoric J times. The
music dealers here, and see how they liked your num- British Museum possesses two pairs, 5 / 2 inches in
bers, but I must say that 'Carolina' has always got diameter, one of which was found in the coffin of the
a good hand for us, and 'Supposing' brings our tenor mummy of Ankhhape, a sacred musician. Those
used by the Assyrians were both plate and cup shape.
singer a good hand also.
The Greek cymbals were cup or bell shape. Cymbal
•'THE D I X I E TRIO.
is derived from the Latin—Cymba, a hollow vessel.
"John McKenney."
In the Middle Ages the word Cymba was applied
to the Glockenspiel, or peal of small bells, and, later,
to the dulcimer, possibly on account of the clear bell-
like tone produced by the hammers striking the wire
strings.
Advance Sales for McNally's Thrilling Drama Re-
ported Very Lively by Management.
UNQER SONGS ARE PRAISED
PRESENTS "A GOOD BAD WOMAN'
On Christmas night, Sunday, December 25, the
Minturn-Central Theater, Chicago, will present Wil-
liam A. Brady's production of "A Good Bad Woman,"
by William J. McNally, with Miss Ruth Thomas
and a complete New York cast, including Florence
Ravenell, Helen Singer, Beryl Worth, George M.
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The advance January bulletin of Mel-O-Dee music
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Ballad—California Lullaby, C major, Rudy Seiger
(Henri Bergman).
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