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The Bell Ringers

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
February
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Imperial Oarillonneure. What does that mean ? It means an evening's entertainment by the Royal fland-Bell Ringers, oí London, Eng. This company is again playing iu the United otates aíter ají absence of ftve years, and everywhere they apappear there is praise and praise and aorhing but praise. Kobert J. Burdette, who , ;ecently appeared here in tlie Y. M. C. A. Lyoum eourse, writes to Mr. McAllastor in reference to this troupe : De Soto, Mo., Jan. 14. '!)6. "líy Dear McAllaster : "Yours of Jan. 7 met me here toAay, and this was the very place tt wanted to meet me. áeeiuse right in this little city, and under the management of this very Lyceum eommittee, the chairman oí ivhich, Mr. C. M. Gilí, is a Michigan man, a Hillsdale gradúate, and anotlier member, Mr. Bean, a pi-ominent attorney liere, is au alumnus of Aun Arbor. Your Bell Eingers gave an entertainment which makes muslc io the memaries of tfie people of De Soto unto this day. But the verdict ie the same everywhere. I have followed the Bell Ringers in a number of lecture coursea, and hicar nothing but praise of 1Sbem. Always there is a desire to have them come tiack again, which is the best endorsement any organization can receive from the people. They wlll give the patrons of your eourse a most delightful evening. Tuis I knowr 'because I have heard tSnem, and knoAv that my warmest praise will fall short of doing them Jwstice. Sincerely Yours, ROBBRT J. BURDETTE." , The above endorsement is all that ny company ought to need. Tliey appear hore in Ann Arbor on Thursday Teaing of next week, -Feb. 13, at the Fïesbyterian church, and there will e a crowd to greet thein. The mail admission fee of 35 cents is all the Y. M. C. A. management tíiarge. The Chicago Tribune : "As bell-ringrs this compaoy is superior to any ver seen here." Chicago ínter Oeeam : ''Home, Sweei iHome," and "The Sailor's Hornpipe," wre given with such delicacy and fine tone coloring that it seemed as if an organ accompaniament were subduing the metallic effect in soft blown measures. Brooklyn Eagle : They did thcir ■work as no bell-ringers ever before fettcceeded ta Co ing in this country. All who heard them long to liear hem again. Boston Transcript : Music of a high order was rendered in a way that placed them at the head of bell

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News