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Show -UO CHICAGO MUSICIAN PRAISES II OF TI CHOIR H. A. Tolman, director of the Diana Musical club of Chicago, a mixed chorus of 125 voices, stopped in Ogden Tuesday night betweon trainB and was an interested member of the audience which attended the farewell concert of the Ogden Tabernacle choir at the Tabernacle. His presence there, he stated to President "Wlllard Scowcroft of the choir, after the conclusion of the program, pro-gram, was by merest chance and he considered the visit one of the biggest big-gest treats of hiB tour of the west. He congratulated Mr. Scowcroft and Director Joseph Ballantyne on the splendid singing, saying that in the Ogden chorus, the famous Apollo club of Chicago had a worthy rival. Of Miss Emma Lucy Gates and Mr. Leon Hoffmeister, the Chicago musician musi-cian spoke in terms of high praise, stating that the former was one of the finest artists he had ever heard, one "who sang with genuine inspiration" inspira-tion" and that the latter was an unusually un-usually fine baritone. |