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Show PATUIOT1SM QV THK MINNKAP-OU8 MINNKAP-OU8 'SYMPHONY OURCHKSTHA Kvei piogiam played by tho Minneapolis Min-neapolis 'Symphony orchestra which comes on Kebtuar) 12 to tho Logan ! tabernacle begins with "America" 'and doses with "The Star Spangled lUimei." ThTinras boon llio case since Kcb-ruuy Kcb-ruuy 1, 1917, hen the Cnlted StatoH Ht'ieioil diplom.itlc relations with Geimany, and will continue to bu so until the war ends, I lu fact when hostilities rirst btohn out In Europe, Kmll Oberhoffer, cou dui'lor,' forbade any hind of International Interna-tional controversy at rehearsals, and impressed it upon his musicians that tboy constituted an American orchestra, orches-tra, flrat nnd last. I Tho result has been a very harmonious har-monious state of affalis. notwithstanding notwith-standing tho factllmt tho !0 musicians musi-cians represent variously, neatly all tho powers nt war, an far as their nationality Is concerned. It Is on rocord however, that at ono rohearsal, tfurlhg the fltst Liberty1 Lib-erty1 Loan drive, every man subscribed, subscrib-ed, tho total amounting to ? 13,000. I This Is in line wlht the existent' Americanism preached by Mt Oberhoffer, Ober-hoffer, who !ias"'b"oon a resident of 'the Cnited States for 2fi w i and took out cltlwnshlp papeiu a' ouce oil his arrival. ... |
