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Show , ROYAL WELSH LADIES' CHOIR. That tho Royal Welsh Ladles' Choir, which will appear at the Orpheum theater on New Year's day, matinee and night, brings the goods with It when It tours a country, and that It captivates the heart of the people, needs no further certificate than tho fact that tho choir on its third tour is receiving a warmer reception than It ever received on its previous tours. The daughters of Wales have found out that Americans and Canadians arc truly a musical people, and, as Madame Hughes-Thomas puts it, the proof of a really musical nature Is the shunning of musical trash, how-?er how-?er cheap it may be, and tho patronizing patron-izing of musical art for art's sake, pven though the prize be prohibitive. Musical America has gone crazy to use a vulgar term over the singing of the lasses from Wales, not because of any high price they had to pay to hear them, hut because the singing of the choir reached the idoal of a genuinely genu-inely musical people Hence the third visit of the choir an'l the Invariable warm reception It has met with so far at everv appearance on Its present Itinerary over our great continent. One of the effects of the previous tours Is that the choir, having become moro accustomed to the American people, sings on this occasion better, if possible, pos-sible, than It ever did before. no |