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Show MUSIC BADLY NEEDED. (Philadelphia. Press.) "Peter Alvarado, the rich Mexican mine owner, who recently gave $10,-000.000 $10,-000.000 to the poor, is a foe to divorce," said a Philadelphia broker. "On my last visit to Mexico City I dined with him. and he condemned the spread of divorce bitterly. "He told an old story on this head. He said a young musician exclaimed one day in his hearing: ''At last I have fame in my grasp.' " 'How so?' Mr. Alvarado asked. " 'You know Mendelssohn's. "Wedding "Wed-ding March" and the marvelous repute it brought him?" said the musician. "'Ves, what of it? said the millionaire. million-aire. " 'Well.' faid the musician. 'I am going to write a divorce march.'" |