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Show High School Musicians Will Be at State Fair High school musicians will have their innings at the State fair this year, as in other years, but there will be an added incentive in an informal contest to be conducted during the session, from October 3 to 10. According to plans of the man. agement, high school bands of Utah will be invited to come to the fair and furnish music or. given days at certain hours. Theiv concerts will be listened to by r. committee of judges, who will note their points of exceUence without direct competition with other bands and, at the close of the fair, will award prizes to all members of the winning organization. organiz-ation. This week, a letter from Herbert M. Schiller of the executive committee com-mittee of the state fair board is going forward to all superintendents superintend-ents of high schools in Utah inviting in-viting them to send the school band to the fair. It is the present pres-ent plan of the board, according ' to Mr. Schiller, to award silver medals to aU musicians in the whining band. The contest, thro-out thro-out will be informal and should ' ' afford an opportunity for everyone every-one of the better school bands of f the state to win the coveted prizes. priz-es. Throughout, the Utah State ' Fair of 1931 will offer an exceptionally excep-tionally fine class of entertainment entertain-ment and amusement. As usual, band concerts by school and professional pro-fessional organizations will be in progress most of the time Then children and grown-ups will be. thrilled and entertained daily with circus acts and gymnastic fea tures, among them Lohse & Sterling Ster-ling on the Roman rings and swinging trapeze; the Six De-cardos, De-cardos, the "Jumping Jacks," ex. pert tumblers, Four Haas Brothers, Broth-ers, aerial acrobats, Anderson's Animal Circus with performing dogs, ponies, monkeys and mules, the usual fireworks display at night and the entertaining midway mid-way attractions, sideshows, etc The crowning feature of the entertainment en-tertainment program, though, will be the engagement of the famous "Captain Dobbsie," the great radio ra-dio entertainer, in person, with his -company of sixteen afternoons after-noons and evenings for five days, beginning Monday, October 5. Captain Dobbsie has millions of followers on the radio who hear his program every day. His appearance ap-pearance in person at the State fair will enable thousands of his admirers to see and hear him at close range. In other departments of the Fair notable exhibititions have already been arranged. Ernest S. Holmes, manager, says that gratifying grati-fying interests has been shown In ' the livestock and other 'depart- ' 1 ments, particularly since the announcement that the fair had been designated by the American 1 Jersey Cattle Club as the western : regional show. Mr. Holmes,how- ever, again urged that prosixjctive 1 exhibitors in this department 1 send in their entries at once, to : expedite allotment of space. |