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Show Authority on Native Ballads To Lecture Here John A. Lomax, interpreter and collector col-lector ot American ballads, will give a lecture-recital in Kingsbury nail next Tuesday at I: IS p. m., appearing as the next number on the Master Minds and Artists series sponsored by the extension division ot the University Univer-sity ot Utah. Already author of two book on American folk -eon ga and ballad "Cowboy Songs" and "Songs ot the Cattle Trail" Mr. Lomax is preparing, prepar-ing, at present, a comprehensive anthology an-thology which will include the songs ot the negro a well a those ot the cowboy. Much scouting went Into assembling assembl-ing ot the ballads, a great deal of the work wa done by correspondence snd many songs war given to Mr. Lomax by his student at Texas Agricultural Agri-cultural and Mechanical college. The only "author" of a cowboy ballad cited In hi first book, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," la one of hi students, Harry Stevens, broncho bron-cho buster and poet who came to the college from Deniaon, Texas. Mr. Lomax, who ha been acclaimed ac-claimed by universities all over the country as arr authority and praised for hi Interesting discourses, will sing a number of cowboy songs during dur-ing the course of hi lecture at Kingsbury Kings-bury hall. |