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Show AX EVENING WELL SPENT The lectures of Prof. Miller at the high school auditorium Sunday and Monday evenings deserved a larger attendance. His talks were instructive, in-structive, interesting and helpful in many ways. The speaker has been engaged in work in the juvenile courts of Los Angeles and has been in close touch with and a careful student of the child life problems j and said many things that would be : helpful to parents. It was an opportunity oppor-tunity for the parents of this community com-munity that was allowed to pass without notice by too many. The schools and Milford in general are under obligations to Supt. White for the visit of Mr. Miller. Longer previous notice and more thorough j advertising would have doubtless se-j se-j cured a larger attendance and larger results for the efforts and expense expended. ' t In connection with the lecture, tho News must not fail to mention the excellence of the vocal selections rendered by members of the girls' glee club of the high school. There are some remarkably good voices in the club and they can demonstrate more than any words can express the advantage of vocal training in the schools. The only pity is that the lower grades of the county schools do not have the same advantages ad-vantages for such training. The club sang Carrie Jacobs Bond's "I Love You Truly," their voices blending blend-ing smoothly in the beautiful song. The Misses Griffith then sang a duet, "I Would That My Love" by Mendelssohn, Men-delssohn, which showed marked natural ability and good training. The last number was a selection from "Love Tales of Hoffman" which is more difficult of rendition and one of the sweetest melodies ever written. These selections serve to show how worth while is the training received by the high school students. The girls had to respond to an encore which served best to show the surprising volume of melo-' " dy of which they are capable and which is seldom heard even in high school gleeclubs much larger than that of our own B. C. H. S. The members of the club who sang upon this occasion are Eleanor, Estelle and Anna Griffith, Grace 01-sen, 01-sen, Katherine Smithson, Fidelia Beer, Alta Edwards and LaRue Williams, Wil-liams, with Elva Burns at the piano. Mrs. Woodbury, their teacher, directed di-rected the work of the club. A. |