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Show CONTEST OF IMS TORIGHT AT CAFJTOL Festival of School Children Will Be Second of Com-i Com-i munity Programmes. Children representing all of the public schools of the city, 4801 of them by actual count, will participate in the operetta, "Contest of the Nations," on the capitol steps at 8 o'clock tonight, weather permitting. per-mitting. This appearance, taking the place of the usual May music festival, was to have been Friday night last, but it was postponed because of the thunderstorm. The operetta will be the second of the numbers on the community music programme pro-gramme for the year, the first having been the pre.senta.tion of "The Creatiop" by the Salt Lake Oratorio society. The thousands of children will be accompanied ac-companied by a brass and reed band of twenty-five professional musicians. Professor Pro-fessor Hugh W. Dougall, supervisor of music in the public schools, will be the conductor, assisted by Professor W. K. Lay, supervisor of physical education. The programme will include folk songs and national dances of Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, P'rance, England, Russia, Scandinavia, Japan, China and the United States. Admission to the capitol cap-itol grounds will be free and there will be no reserved seats. The scene will be lighted with flood lights from the roof of the capitol. The executive committee in charge of the production comprises Hugh W. Dougall, chairman; W. E. Pav, W. J. McCoy, Miss Kvelyn Reilly, I.yle Bradford, Brad-ford, Edna Evans, Mildred Jones and Olive Ferris. The committee on arrangements arrange-ments includes W. J. McCoy, chairman; H. D. Folsom, J. T. Worlton and E. W. Fraser. |