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Show SUIT LIE CHOIR WITS ATTENTION i Salt Lake. March 29. So anxious are the managers of the International exposition eisteddfod at San Francisco to secure the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir as one of the competitors in the choral contests that renewed efforts are being made to have the big choir enrpred According lo a letter from Secretary W Solomon Jones of the Kisteddfod to John James slate insurance' insur-ance' commissioner oi" Utah, Senators Smoot and Sutherland have promised to enlist their influence in an effort to bring about that end. The letter received by Mr James says, in part: Referring to our 1915 Eisteddfod, our people are extremely anxious to have the Mormon Tabernacle choir of your city take part in the ESlgteddfod's choral rontcsts The winning choirs in the chief number will receive prizes pri-zes as follows: First prize 110,000; second prize, $2000, third prize. $500. "The magnitude of the prizea offered of-fered makes this eontpst the most momentous over held in the annals of Klsteddt'odau in this or any othpr country, hence our desiro to have the Tabernacle choir of your city -without doubt the moHt famous choir In the United States, together with its vataran conductor. Jfrot. Evan 8te- V ' phens the most prominent choir di-I di-I rector on the Pacific slopes enter these cometitions. "We are informed that the choir itself it-self is in favor of entering, and ready to defray the exjense of the trip: but an objection is raised owing to the fact that the Ogden choir is coming com-ing to take part in the exposition. 'It ought to be distinctly and positively posi-tively understood that the Eisteddfod is altogether separate from the exposition. expo-sition. During the four days all its meetings will be held In the Auditorium, Audito-rium, civic center In the heart of the city and two miles away from the exposition grounds "We are not lacking in having choirs to compete, and yet we shall be very' much disappointed, and thousands thou-sands of our Welsh and Welsh-Americans attending the Eisteddfod I am sure will feel the same If the Mormon Mor-mon Tabemacle choir of Salt Iike fails to enter the Eisteddfod competitions. competi-tions. ' oo |