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Show SOUSA. MINUS HIS I BEARD. TO BE li OGDEN SOON Those who have seen recent pictures pic-tures of Lieut. John Philip Sousa have noticed that he and his internationally famous beard have parted company. iThe separation was one of the most painful incidents of the recent war. The beard is gone, but not forgotten. The bandmaster says that it will never again adorn his face though it was his cood friend and faithful companion jfor more than a quarter of a centry. ilt was cultivated first when he was 'only 22, and Just beginning his career. Following the then established custom cus-tom adopted by young physicians of adorning their face with a hirsute appendage ap-pendage for the purpose of simulating 'age, young Sousa gave up shaving at Jthe time of his first assignment as band leader In discussing the aband-1 aband-1 onment of his beard the other day, I Lieut Sousa said: "At the Great Lakes station, where 'I was assigned to duty when the war l broke out there were 2rt,000 men and only two sets of whiskers. Commander Command-er Grimes and myself owned these I sets. The more I associated with the youth and maturity of the day rep Irsented at Great Lakes, the more 1 I began to feel I was in the wrong or that my chin was in the wrong." ' You know the war of Independence was fought b smooth faced men, the Ciil war by whiskered men. and this present war by smooth shaven men. The thing moves in cycles, and, not uesiring to stand with the minority, I decided on the trim I feel much better, although somewhat lonely. I have carried the beard about for nearly near-ly thirty ears. We were very close. Seriously. I felt that the day of the beard was far past, and that modem efficiency called for ae smooth a face as a man could present to the world " Mr. Sousa and his baud will entertain enter-tain Ogden'a music lovers at the Tabernacle on Mondav, December 1 1919. - |