Mr. Masefield awards Palm to Glasgow Mr. John Masefield, who has been acting as one of the adjudicators at the Glasgow Musical and Elocautionary Festival, professes to have discovered among the Scottish young folks a well of English pure and undefiled.
Two years ago Mr. Masefield first acted as judge of elocution in Edinburgh. What he heard and: saw amazed him. He could not, so he said, sleep for three nights, the beauty of what he heard was overpowering.
PERFECTION, Now in Glasgow he has hear same thing in an intensified fe." To quote his own words, in announcing his judgment in the final contest for the diploma, he said tonight: "We have neard the Perfection of lovely speaking."
The winner of the diploma was Miss Queenie Russell, of Glasgow, and as to her performance Mr. Masefield was enthusiastic.
Hailing her as among the first products of a new school of the-elocutionary art, Mr. Masefield stated that so impressed had he been with what he heard at Edinburgh that he and his wife had determined to do their best to
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