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Show 00 NORDICA'S LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN Seen is Mme Nordica s mascot, ac cordlnp to an Interview recently Riven i the rat Blnger, who admits thai her one and only superstition dwells in that magic number. Mme. Nordica, who appears here Wednegda.3 nipht. June 11, under th-auspices th-auspices of the Ogden Tabernacle choir claims that every happy and fortuitous circumstance In her 1 1 rV ha hinged on hr number seven. For instance her first public appearance was made In church on Sunday, the seventh day of the week, which happened hap-pened to fall on the seventh day of the seventh month and when, to com plete the mystic chain, the embryo prima donna had but seven years to her credit My mot her.'' says .Mme Nordica, chose for me a name containing sev-en sev-en letters, as 6he spelled It. and as I do Lillian When 1 ( ame to choose for myself an operatic last name, I told my sinplnp teacher I wanted to retain my first name and get a second as nearly like my family name of Norton as possible, but containing seen letters and ending with 'a.' as at that time it was considered proper for all operatic artists to adopt names with an Italian or French ending He submitted Nordica. and as that I have been known eer since My manager, I Frederic Shipman. has also seven let-ten let-ten in his last name. "I bare tuund that many of the most important events of my life oc curred on the seventh day of the .month and that the years ending in seven 1877, 1887, 1897, and 1007 were among the most Important of my ! musical career All of HiIb has so in-tereated in-tereated me in the number seven that I I have accumulated a lot of data about it to show that 1 am not the only one who believes In seven." Here arc a few of the facts which the prima donna has collected to prove the i cut li of her contention. There are seven das in the week It took seven years for King Solo mon to complete his temple to the Most High. Home was built on seven hills. Solomon had seven hundred wives Flisha commanded Naaman to bathe seven times in the River Jordan The seventh Is the Giant's lucky In ning. The seventh son of a seventh son is ( onsidered lucky. There Is a seventh heaven of de-llghl de-llghl I There are seven precious metals Seven notes in the musical scale Seven colors of the rainbow " Seven I ardinal virtues Seven geological ages Seven apes of man Seven openings in the human head Seven times ten years is the natural period of life The moon changes its phases every ?een days. Frederic Shipman, the divas man ager. also adds his quota of testimony to the wizardry of seven by calling gttentton to the fact that an impres-I impres-I slaHo'S success, which happy word i contains the maple number, rests on I two things of seven letters recital and I concert, while the results of these are counted by another combination of seven dollars oo |