Show r LIGHTER EDITORIAL COMMENT l O ON THINGS OF MINOR INTE INTEREST Mr Ml Held's ReIds Park Concerts I It If tomorrow shall tu turn n out ut to be an ideal Salt Lake summer summer day th the crowd that will go to Liberty park to near hear Mr Held banS band will no doubt far exceed exceed exceed ex ex- ex- ex There i is no more restful spot in town to than than the rich green sward award of the park anc and no more restful sounds than those of the band band to t to creep into ones one's ear and soothe It Is particularly appropriate approprIate that the musical numbers should harmonize harmonize with th the the spirit of the time and place that the higher purpose of the ente entertainment viz the elevation of the of the masses for art may maybe maybe maybe be Mr Hel Hc last Sunday showed a catholicity of taste and a breadth of appreciation that are bound to make his more popular with each succeeding ding concert His musicians are maters masters of technique while his own thoroughly musical nature nature nature na na- na- na ture as the guiding and ri enthusiastic spirit is sure to a true art production A of all of the less difficult popular classics s could gradually gradually gradually grad grad- be made up and t gradually gradually ally familiarized d with tEem them as the in- in technique of them them Mr Held coul CasilY become tha leader in popular musical education education education tion in the far West An Au Open-Air Open City I fg Kansas City Is boasting of its popularity popularity popularity larity as asan an open-air open toWn toh town but anyone engagements will wil him to wall walk Main Mam street in Salt Lake these I soft summer eV evenings Just must be surprised surprised sur sur- at the great percentage of the he population out out- enjoying the health- health freighted air and dispelling are sights sig It His is in the vicinity of Main and Second South where the most doth cloth congregate Its t a jay jay town saith one ne pointing to th the Rubes but how dull it would be without their en entertaining entertaining entertaining en- en presence All So sorts ts and conditions conditions conditions con con- of men wom women n sand jand and children pass and a more orderly procession is not to be pe e seen in any c city Y on n the American Ameri Amen can continent Nearly every night the whole crowd pauses to e enjoy joy the very ex excellent ellent free show of Charles P. P Madsen Co Coher where her one has presented like life pictures s of some of the most Interesting s scenes enes nes and personages personages personages person person- ages of he che world Intermixed are attractive at- at trac lve advertisements of of some some of the leading Salt Lake Institutions including ing necessarily tl the E Telegram m. m This paper has always alway's always always' believed in legitimate advertising and its phenomenal n nil nal l growth in less lessa than five fhe e months to second place among Utah newspapers in daily dally average circulation is largely to be attributed to to th the j judicious dic ous use of ot publicity Madsen's pictures constitute tute tut tute one of the best best forms of attracting worth attention attention worth i a h hundred nar d the out way way board bill-board posters and costing a tenth of the expenditure You young people are lucky these latter days says ays an old man watching the moving pictures You get geta free free show every nl night ht- ht for nearly t rs' rs t that at used to cost a dollar in my y young ung t days ays and then wasn't anything as b beautiful au ful and andre re realistic as this T Ihen hen en just s see e what you enjoy in the electric cars nowadays and tie the clean beautifully lighted streets streets' The good old times times times' were vere allwell all allwell allwell well enough but but but- and then he stops talking to gaze at the inspiring picture picture lof of McKinley presenting the s v s s rd ard rd to toe Dewey e ey e-ey yi The manager of the thel show tells tl e crowds croWds in in large letters letters that that t persons persons persons' see the le pictures pictures' every every night and judging by the endless procession procession procession pro pro- cession that hat seems 0 o p pass SS that corner of Main Mam every t he is probably not overes overestimating No NO No onder wonder the Salt Lako Lake girls have such high complexions with so much pure oxygen going soing Into their lungs and blood every night when the weather permits them to join the passing show Yes we ve are an open-air open town Why Not a Choral Society Speaking of musical matters recalls the fact act often otten often commented on by rs that despite the popularity of dt the divine art in Salt Sart Lake the number of good sIngIng sing societies here hire Is exceedingly ly few fen The Germans German of course with their lieder lieder- kranz and the like form the basis of all the groat choral societies in the East Bast but there are aie enough Germ Germans in t Sai Lake to 1 make snake a strong nucleus nucleus' around which to build up a body of singers almost as great as th the world world- famous Cincinnati Musical Festival chorus with its GOO COO trained voices or orthe the great Worcester r F Festival body And by the way an time old-time member of ot that very Cincinnati chorus Is now row nowa rowa a resident of Salt Lake in the person of Mr J. J M M. F F. Snodgrass who led the themUS mUS ic of ot the high school at the Exercises exercises exercises exer Exer- Wednesday night The Queen City chorus has been Th Theodore oc or Thomass Thomas's pet for over a quarter of a century and no one me ever Is permitted to sing therein without the great directors directors directors director's tors tor's approval Were Vere a good popular choral society to be he organized here Mr Sno Snodgrass's rass's aid would be invaluable A hundred picked voices with a good knowledge of re reading ding four foin or five part scores and familiar with Bach Haendel Haendel Haendel Haen- Haen del Haydn and he like ought to bea be bea bea a a possibility in musical Salt Lake Talking Through His Hat Bat Th The age average American merican citizen is to tobe tobe be 00 excused for r not thoroughly understanding understanding understanding under under- standing the bu business in ss of a a. great newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper or r the secrets of the sanctum Ho He does not understand the management manage ment of a gre great t ocean liner nor nun ot of the mysteries ries of the Lick observatory But occasionally a individual steps In iru wh where re anS' anS ls fear to tread and tells the world what he knows I In the I current number of the Atlantic Monthly J a certain Brooke Fisher deplores deplores de de- de- de the modern newspaper r and tells what ought to tG be done The gentleman gentle gentle- man s in newspaper offices Doubtless that is why hy he thinks he could run yun a 1 r. r Says Mr Fisher The fact is that the editor and the editorial ar are nowadays but means to the circulation and arid advertising advertis advertis- inS ing the main main mam objects to be kept in view The newspaper has become an an industry a business conducted for the usual ends of business 9 with pU public lc I t teaching ching and influence e but a pro by duct The ed editor no po longer hired the publisher publisher the the publisher publish r hired the edi edi- tor If a gas deal threatens tens ti to mortgage mort snort sa gage the tho future of a prime necessity I of ot life to dividend charges on shoals i of stock-issues stock or a railway y combInation combination combination tion to the transportation of a city the modern journalist will tin finds find space in spite of or any pressure of news for the arguments of ot corporation lawyers lawers at so much per column on on either er sid side but Its own editorial w on n the the- qu question s if In indeed it pretends to h have ve veany any will be elaborately sinuous fiat flat and o Mr Fisher would remedy all this state of affairs by the thew w weekly kly paper r. r He does not seem to know th that t the he public makes its own th that t the editors editor's aim is ever eyer to find out what hat the public wa wants and to supply the want Printers Printer's ink is cheap If It Itan an any r roan man is dete determined mined to preach his theories to the public willy- willy till nilly he can print a pamphlet Why inot not But Mr Fisher does not know that the leading papers in America to today today today to- to day are on on the aide sude of the people and not of the gias ga companies Mr Fisher was evi evidently talking through his hat |