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OPERA CONTRACTION THE MINNEAPOLIS JOIRXAL
BY GIRL SINGER WHO G i r l Soprano Teaches Her
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i Kum L'nivcrvry Graduate Who Studied

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Chicago CUic Opera Xext Month Engaged for the ~
Chicago Opera

By R U T H S C H W A B E N L A N D , speaking of\Jllpha 0 interest

Chi Delta EVERY editor has her moments of genuine thrills. There are thrills
Somehow I think that you could that fly up and down her spinal column when she finds that a
member has been elected to a prominent position—thrills when she
see this night— •earns that a girl has been asked to join a party of explorers—thrills
A heavy silver tree outside my when she receives a very unexpected and very well prepared article of
a current problem accompanied by good pictures—thrills when she
door. K n o w s that three chapters in one district are winners of scholarship
Low-hanging stars that seem to awards or that all but one of the basketball team are AOn's. These are
the thrills she gleans from the daily mail—from this girl and that—
drip with light.
And little paths of color on the rorn chapter letters, newspapers, and a word dropped by chance.

floor.

Somehow I think that you would
understand

If I should call the moon a gold-
en thread,

Which, spinning within itself,
becomes a band

Of laughter-quivering gold. And
if I said

That joy is like a friend with
peaceful hands,
Somehow—/ think
that you would
understand.

Hut the shivers that still race up and down your own editor's back-
one aren't caused during the first or second year of any editor's ca-
-e e r They come after several years of appeal and education, and when
cen s n e feels them, she knows that her readers are with her, a hundred

TI!^' ^s e * ke e a s ^ ^ e r P P i i pa r e n t c e s n were over.
a I his great experience came when Mary Rose Barrons (<£), was given
b r ° H ^C T R A C T W ^ e Chicago Civic Opera Company, and the news was
n e ° a across the states through newspapers. From seven different
D i WsPapers that news came back to me, sent by seven different A l -

O's. Do you wonder my senses tingled?