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Show Y. W. C. A. In Italy Gives Daily Concerts Peasants frpm Surrounding Country " Walk Three Miles to Hear Vic trola Records. Nightly concerts at the Y. W. C. A. camp for Industrial girls Just outside of Florence, Italy, have resolved themselves them-selves into community concerts, which are attended by peasants for miles around the camp. At dusk the victrola is taken out on the lawn and the peasants begin gath-i ej'ing in the wood about the camp. The line can be traced down the hill by tho" lighted cigarettes of the men which glow like fireflies on all sides of the camp. The peasants ask always for L'lnno Americano the American National Hymn which they always applaud entnusiastically. It hns come to be known as the "Bueno Notte" record, as It is always played the last tbing in the evening. This camp was established as a recreation re-creation center where girls who had suffered from under nourishment and poor housing conditions during the fivo war years might go for short vacations. |