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Show Cannot Put "Age Limit" on Singers Since John McCormick decided to maintain a silence, as golden as his voice is silver, after he reaches fifty years of age, singers have held lengthy debates with vocal authorities on the subject of the age at which they should retire professionally. Some claim the voice at or near that age begins to fail that too many singers sing-ers have been either too impecunious or too egotistic to cease at that time and have disgraced themselves there- ' by. Eldorado Petri, director of the free choral school of the Metropolitan Opera Op-era company, is a member of the dissenting dis-senting body which believes a singer is still capable of much melody long past the mooted age. "It is the physique the health the physical condition that determines the time for resignation from the field of professional singing," he . protested heatedly when the discussion reached him. |