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Show Win High Honors. Probably the largest delegation from the Deseret Stake ever present at a June Conference was in Salt Lake last week. A large number from the various towns attended the Primary and Mutual Conferences, and there were nearly 50 people from Hinckley in attendance, including includ-ing 30 young people who went to enjoy and take part in the M. I. A. singing contest, and Miss Lyle Cropper who represented this district in the retold story. This is the first time Hinckley or any part of the Deseret stake has ever entered the Salt Lake singing contest and Hinckley has the distinction of being the only ward in the church from Canada to Mexico that has com-' peted at the finals in all five of the musical numbers. Music is not taught in the Hinckley public schools and are no trained singers in its M. I. A. practically all the training any of the young contestants have ever had consising of the drill Mrs. C. A. Broadus, their director, direc-tor, has given them on the contest con-test songs. She assured them and their parents repeatedly be. fore the contest that they could not hope to win against the singers sing-ers from educational centers of greater advantages, and the winners in every case proved to be those who had had considerable consider-able private and public school vocal training. But Mrs Broad-dus Broad-dus and the officers of the Hinckley Hinck-ley M. I. A. were very anxious to have the young people, who had been drilling so faithfully enjoy the broadening experience of the trip to Salt Lake and the musical treats impossible to obtain ob-tain here. Therefore they were pleasantly surprised to be chosen as one of the two best for the grand finals in the Boy Scout chorus and to secure second place in the final grading, even Salt Lake received nothing higher than second place and that in the junior girls chorus, and Pro-vo's Pro-vo's splendid mixed quartet of famed trained voices including Anna Duke and Mrs. Southwick received only second place. We have good reason to be proud of our singers for they were easily among the best half of the contestants altho this is their first attempt. The junior girls sang very well but were unfortunate in having to sing first and through nervousness did not quite do themselves justice, the mixed quartet sang excellently, as well as could be expected of untrained voices, surprising everyone by their artistic shading and interpretation inter-pretation and their musicianly accuracy and blending. Our Boy Scout chorus was the only one to secure a hearty and spontaneous encore. There .was only one judge at the finals and altho he stated that the contest was' about (Continued on page 8) |