Show I DEFENDS SINGERS I IA A re recently published f statement that professional singers are aro the leftovers from other occupations pet persons sons who have ha failed in regular purl pursuits has no tug basis of or fact and Is contrary to all nil records and common knowledge said Charles Charle W W. Clark the distinguished American baritone who I will give hc a ro- ro cital with his a accompanist at al the First Methodist Episcopal church Ja January 9 9 as at one of oC the tho attractions of or the Graham and lyceum series merles Singers ers are born not made that made that Is Is professionals Tho The mere fact that thal many of them ar are obliged to UM use a re regular ular hu business bust busi l- l ness methods method or a commercial l position a as a mt means of Securing money moner to obtain a musical education lad and tl tide e them over oer tho the carl early years of e effort orl and struggle for or recognition cannot Justify the statement statement state stale ment that tha t in lisle Is a second choice choke You would not f say fi nv that a H man who works A his hisa way a through a proe professional school of medicine or 01 la law laV V practices his profession after graduation as a second nd choice It Is true that some seine men and women omen resort report to music for Pr a livelihood 1 after Cler pure purely commercial occupation This may mayhe he hc due to the realization that the profits In music work arc ure greater than thoe those o of their previous occupation or employment It docs does not nol Imply a fl In the former work The a average artist of or to today a. a ha has a thorough acquaintance with bunes wh whether ther he is 18 In opera or concert Through nece necessity the artistic mind has be become om practical In this generation of good bargaining bargain bargain- In ing a shrewdness is Indispensable to a singers success it is hi safe tafe to assume a ume that feor few of our out prominent soloists have havo made verb vcr marked failures In business fC I S Scat Sat reservation are nrc now belli being tads at the lC Garrick th theatre tre |