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Show . . LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19. A method Of testing the ability of any person to sing, -without seeing "him or even hearing him, has been devised by Theophilus Fitz of this city, recently director of music in the State Teachers' Teach-ers' college of Colorado. This method, meth-od, which Professor Fitz says is his "contribution to science," is baaed-upon baaed-upon a series of measurements of tho head cavities that he declares he has worked down to exact mathematics. Ho doos not find it necessary to see, touch or hear the subject, as his work, which ho terms "voice diagnosis." has become as definite to him as mathematics. mathe-matics. All he asks is that certain meansuroments of the head be taken correctly. After learning these measurements and the sex of the subject, he makes his own calculation vas to the size. and shape of tho head- cavities and announces an-nounces whether thc subject, if a girl, is a soprano or contralto, and if a youth, whether he should sing thc role of a basso or of a tenor robusto. "Marie often sings soprano just because be-cause Susie does, although she ought to be singing contralto," says Professor Profes-sor Fitz. "And Bill insists upon slng- 1 ing base, because he thinks it is manl, Hiil when ho really ought to be a tenor." bHIll Persons with round heads make tho jflMI best singers, he says, because their WUl head cavities are tho most symmetry Sffl cal; those with long heads come next Bill and those with oval cranium rank last. Hfil "It is nouesense," lie says, "for peo- Hnll pie to- pass four or five years study- Bill lug music to ascertain whether they ill can slug and if so, what part, when Bllll by this method, they can obtain such Bill a decision immediately." ' fl HI ''' ji iivl |