Show I Timely Topics I CARUSOS CARUSO'S CANDLE A New York firm has manufactured a candle 16 feet teet I high and five feet In circumference at the base which Is to be shipped to Italy and burned In the Church of Our Lady at Pomp Pompeii ell ir In memory of 01 Enrico Caruso ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is suggested that the candle be lighted each All Souls Souls' i day and burned for 24 hours and that burned thus o one e I day each year It will be 18 centuries before the flame fame I In the great singers singer's memory flickers out for tor the last time L Such a memorial makes a powerful appeal to the Imagination but In Inthe the phonographic records of 01 Carusos Caruso's wonderful voice he has a memorial which may well outlast outlast outlast out out- last even his long burning candle The flame of ot a candle Is Is after atter all but a feeble tee thing and It might well be that as aa the centuries passed Caruso would b become ome more famed tamed for tor his candle than for tor his gift gIrt of 01 song But Dut music is not only a a. universal language It Jt also Is Js the language of or time and twice eighteen hundred years from now men may may hear Carusos Caruso's voice and marvel at a a. gift gIrt so BO divine And will wUl they marvel also at the genius of ot an age which made possible a a. memorial such as this or will they pity us us for tor the crudities of ot the time In which we live Then Carusos Caruso's candle has hag burned out the world will vill have advanced Just about as far tar from his day as we of ot the present have advanced from St St. Ce Cecilia a Could we have a a. reproduction today of ot Cecilias Cecilia's music would It enrapture us or would It St seem crude to ears which have I been en charmed by the not notes Caruso sang sang Washington I Star I |