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Show 00 JOSEPH BALLANTIE PLEASED WITH HIS TRIP Prof. Joseph Ballantyne, director ot the Ogden Tabernacle choir, and Mrs. Ballantyne have returned home from California, after enjoying three weeks of rest and recreation on the coas following the close of the choir's concert con-cert tour. They remained for a week In San Francisco to get a good glimpse of tho exposition and passed tho other two weeks at Long Beach and Catalina. ' Speaking of the lour of the noted local chorus this morning, Mr. Ballantyne Ballan-tyne elated that his greatest gratification gratifi-cation was that Its work had received the unanimous approval of tho public and the critics in the three cities where concerts were given and that through tho tour, Ogden had not only received national, but international recognition as a center of musical culture That this recognition would prove of great benefit to the city and state, he said, was unquestioned. Continuing, he said that he greatly appreciated the work of the people of the city and state in having made the trip possible and the faithfulness of the choir members to duty while on tho coast. The purpose of the trip, that of bringing honor to Utah, he said, was over uppermost with the singers and that not only In their singing, but In their general deportment deport-ment the singers had made a fine impression. im-pression. In talking with the managers man-agers of the hotels in which the choir was housed, the choir director was told that they had never taken care of a finer crowd of people. Of the work now before the big chorus, Mr. Ballantyne stated that re-hearsal9.would re-hearsal9.would begin early in September. Septem-ber. oo |