ENGAGEMENT STAT pLÂ AMERICA'S GREATEST CARMEN THE SENSATION OF LOS ANGELES DON'T FAIL TO HEAR HER FEATURE PICTURE THORNS AMO 50PIECE*30 ORCHESTRA RIEMCR - CO'S DUCTING DOROTHY JARDON’S LOS ANGELES ENGAGEMENT EXTENDED. Owing to her great success at Loew's State Theater in the above mentioned city, the popular soprano's engagement there was extended for two weeks. Miss Jardon has created quite a stir with her various changes of program and she has attracted record audiences. (Photo by Weaver) ETHELYNDE SMITH ON TOUR. The snapshot to the left shows Miss Smith photographed with her mother at the State Normal School in Cheney, Wash., at the time of the soprano's recital there on February 26. The other picture teas taken on the campus of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S. D., and is a good likeness of the well known soprano. Miss Smith's recent coast-to-coast tour was most successful and has resulted in many reengagements. <4• ■f. ■ z ׳ DOLLINA SHAYITCH, the little daughter of Vladimir Shavitch, the conductor, who is now in New York, following his successes in South America and Germany. ANNA CASE LOSES VALUABLE DOG. Returning from a long tour of the southwest, the soprano was greeted with the sorrowful news that her prize Russian wolfhound, Nicolai of Vladeska, had succumbed to pneumonia during her absence. Miss Case exhibited this dog at the Philadelphia and New York shows, where it won blue ribbons for all classes in which it was entered. She recently refused an offer of $4,000 far the dog. (Photo©Undenvooddc Underwood) JOHN CHARLES THOMAS, who is singing Mana-Zucca’s Nichavo, of which he has also made a record for the Vocalion. Nichavo, pronounced Nitch-e-voh, with the accent on the last syllable, means “Nothing Matters” or “I Should Worry." The song has been described as “original, with many queer ttcists and turns, some of them essentially ]Russian, and one period of distinctly Italian opera effect.” It has also been called “quite the most characterful Mana-Zucca has ever composed and shows her at her best.” MARGARET FARR, pianist and pupil of Walter Spry, winner of the contest held under the auspices of the Society of American Musicians and Chicago Orchestral Association. (Photo by Moffett) SANFORD SCHLUSSEL, winner of the Mason & Hamlin grand piano prize at Orchestral Hall, Chicago, on May 2, 1923. Mr. Schlussel is a student of Edward Collins of the faculty of the Chicago Musical College. ft־ . ANNE ROSELLE, soprano, who recently delighted audiences in Omaha and St. Joseph and many other cities throughout the middle west. (Photo by Nicholas Mur ay)