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Show Place for the Amateur There is a current tendency fostered, fos-tered, I regret to say, by many of our clever writers to scoff at the "amateur" "ama-teur" and the "dilettante." This is an attitude with which I have very little sympathy. We might as well take our food by sniffing at another person's plate as to confine our musical mu-sical activities to an admission fee at somebody else's performance. If we keep on lotting other people do tilings for ns in that way, another century will find us with nothing of common interest to say to each oilier and no means by which to say it. Conversation Conver-sation is already becoming a lost art. A:i evening of talk Is a rarity. One plays bridge. Harold Bauer, in the Etude. |