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V RICHARD CROCfKES
He Went Hungry To Hear Caruso But He
Turned Down SI,OOO a Week and Refused
a Contract At the "Met"
Away up in the land of the mid
night sun near the northern tip
of Norway lies a town smelling of
cod liver oil and salt fish —a bleak
barrel town called Hammerfest,
the northernmost town in Europe.
I visited Hammerfest a few
years ago and noticed some Amer
ican phonograph records in one
of the store windows. What sort
of music do these fishermen listen
to during the long Arctic winter
when they never see the sun for
months at a time? I examined
the records—and found that they
were sacred songs sung by Rich
ard Crooks.
Expert musicians have told me
that Richard Crooks is the most
distinguished tenor America ever
produced—and he is certainly one
of the best-loved. He has sung
with the greatest symphony or
chestras in the world. He has sung
at the Chicago opera, he is star
red at the Metropolitan, and you
can hear him frequently on the
air.
As a young man Richard Crooks
was so poor he had to do hard
manual labor to "get money to take
music lessons. He lived in Tren
ton, New Jersey; at fourteen, he
got a job painting the big reser
voir tanks for the gas company.
He specialized In painting the tops
of the structures on an eighty
foot ladder, because that was dan
gerous and he was paid fifty cents
more a day for doing it.
Ae seventeen, he was loading ice
on ice wagons for twenty cents an
hour, he had to get on the job at
three o'clock in the morning.
When he came to New York to
study, he lived in one room with
four other boys. The room was
small, but they managed to jam
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a bed and three army cots into it.
The room cost five dollars a week
and the five boys split it five
ways. He ate in cheap restaurants.
"The food wasn't very good," he
told me, "but I didn't mind for I
had a healthy appetite and I liked
any kind of food if it only had a
lot of ketchup on it."
He used to go hungry all day to
hear Caruso sing. He would deny
himself food for a day except a
pint bottle of milk and then go
to the opera and pay a dollar ten
cents for standing room In the
topmost gallery. In order to get
a good standing place, he had to
go early, so he would go to the
opera about .four o'clock In the
afternoon and stand there until
almost nine at night waiting to
hear the immortal Caruso.
"I was awed by Caruso," he told
me. "I felt then and I still feel
that he was the most wonderful
singer who evSr lived. I used to
go to the library and read articles
and biographies about him. I dis
covered that he too had been
poor, that he had to work in a
factory until he was twenty-one
years old and that his mother had
gone without shoes in order that
he might have music lessons."
Richard Crooks got his first job
in churches, singing for weddings
and funerals. He told me that, al
though he didn't wish anybody
any hard luck, he was always
glad in those days when a funer
al came along.
Walter Damrosch heard him
sing and was.so impressed that he
volunteered to get a ten thous
and dollar loan for Crooks so he
could study abroad, but Crooks re
fused the loan. He wanted to earn
everything for himself. He wanted
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to be independent. Finally he was
offered a job singing In The Stu
dent Prince at a salary of one
thousand dollars a week. What?
A thousand dollars a week? For
him? He could hardly believe his
ears. He needed the money. He
was married at the ttone, had a
family to support, one of his chil
dren had had a long siege of ser
ious illness and he himself want
ed to study abroad; but he turn
ed down a thousand a week be
cause he wanted to devote his life
to a higher type of music, to con
cert work and the opera.
And speaking of opera, he is
probably the only singer, who ever
lived who turned down offers
year after year to sing at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York
—before he had become famous.
You would like Richard Crooks
—everybody likes him. Even his
wife likes him. She said to me,
"Dick has never said a mean
thing or done a mean thing in all
his life." And she ought to know
for they were childhood sweet
hearts, and they have been mar
ried twelve years.
When he and his wife first went
to Europe to study, they traveled
from Paris to Munich in a third
class coach. They didn't have any
money to pay for a sleeper so they
sat up and played bridge all night
with a German couple who could
n't speak English and they
couldn't speak German. They
knew they were'going to be me£ at
the Munich station by a famous
singing teacher and they felt
ashamed to be seen coming out
of a third class carriage; so as the
train slowed down, they jumped
off, ran along the platform and
met the singing teacher directly
outside the first class cars.
When Richard Crooks first came"
to New York, he wanted to play
hand ball. Finally he found an
outdoor handball court where he
could play free in return for
keeping the snow swept off the
course. On the day they sing,
most singers lie in bed and don't
talk, and go around with the white
of an egg in theh throats for
hours; but the very day that Rich
ajd Crooks made his debut in
Carnegie Hall, he won the hand
ball championship of New York
State.
(Copyright, 1937)
Teacher Lists
Are Announced
(Continued from page one)
Cragan, Emma Ellen Cooke, Jo
sephine R. Paul, Lucille Young,
Bettie Allen, Sarah E. Harris, Mrs.
Vena H. Harris, Flora H. Royall,
Flora H. Martin, Mrs. Mary Har
ris, Blanche Dixon, Ola Angel,
Mary Elizabeth Hendren, Norma
Noel Cawthon.
North Elkin: H. Welds, princi
pal; Paul O. Lewis, Mrs. Helen
Dobson, Mrs. Mary Douglas, Mrs.
Lois Reinhardt, Mary E. Thomp
son.
Shoals: L, A. Mathews, princi
pal; Ima Mounce, Mary Bet Hay
more, S. Esther Edmonds, Myrtle
Callahan, Mrs. Maude Trulove.
Copeland: A. F. Graham, prin
cipal; C. M. Kirkmaft, Mildred
Beasley, C. O- Kirkman, Betty E.
Hunter, Leoda Snow, Laura Irene
Fulk, Mally O. Hill, Mrs. Eva S.
Badgett, Lessie Wall, Bessie K.
Smith.
Rockford: Spencer M. Norman,
principal; Mrs. Ora D. Burrus,
Mrs. C. B. Burrus.
Siloam: R. Bruce Mathews,
principal; C. Brodie Money, Mrs.
Nina R. Miller, Maggie Miller,
Myrtle Hutchens, Stella Mathews.
Hardware Store
Is In New Home
(Continued from page one)
morning, and he issued a cordial
invitation for everyone to visit
the store's new quarters.
The building housing the Elkin
firm was purchased several weeks
ago and was thoroughly remod
eled. An attractive front and
show windows were put in, and
when the process of moving the
hardware stock is completed the
place will be one of Elkin's most
modern stores. The new quarters
are much larger than the old.
in addition to handling practic
ally everything in the hardware
line, the Hinshaw Cash H&rdwarjp
Co. also is dealer for a number of
nationally known and advertised
products, including Norge electric
refrigerators and other household
appliances, Zenith radios, and
Seiberling tires and tubes.
NEW BEAUTY SHOPPE
TO OPEN HERE SOON
A new beauty parlor, to be
known as Lady Elk Beauty
Shoppe, is scheduled to open here
in quarters in the Greenwood
building, corner of Market and
North Bridge streets, about Aug
ust 15.
The new ehoppo will be opened
by Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Day, of Mil
ler's Creek. They do not plan to
operate the establishment per-
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cast 100 yards away, can be
pierced by the bullet.
Dr. Nicks Hurt
In Crash Monday
(Continued from page one)
stopped at the intersection, head
ed east on the Jonesville road,
and had looked both ways for
traffic. He said he didn't see a
car in either direction and had
pulled out into highway 21 when
the car struck him. The car was
within three feet of him, he said
before he saw it.
- The owner of the car picked up
the local man and brought him to
Elkin. Carried to Hugh Chatham
hospital, his injuries were treated
and he was allowed to return
home. However, Tuesday morn
ing, due to the painful nature of
the fractured shoulder, he was
returned to the hospital where he
will remain for some days. Hos
pital attaches stated Wednesday
that his. condition is satisfactory
but that ne is suffering consider
able pain.
JURORS ARE DRAWN
FOR CRIMINAL COURT
Yadkinville, Aug. 4.—(Special.)
—The county commissioners in
session here Monday V.drew the
jury for the next term v of crimi
nal court for Yadkin' county,
which convenes on Monday Aug.
23. Judge J. H. Clement wilt-pre
side over the term. The
drawn Monday are as follows: \
T. A. Brann, John S. Poindex
ter, W. C. Caudle, A. M. Evans,
J. D. Carter, W. N. Gregory, Eu
gene King, E. R. Crater, Ellis
Wooten, Arthur Wood, U. O. Mil
ler, I. C. Collins, A. D. Brandon,
Daniel Wilkins, T. J. Sutphin, C.
E. Oroce, S. T. Cheek, W. E.
Wooten, W. H. Adams, J. P. Wall,
L. H. Adams, J. P. Wall, L. A.
Shore, Glenn Vestal, Henry
Brown, Arthur Renegar, J. P.
Nicks, Walter W. Shores. Tal
madge Cheeks, Raymond Riley,
W. H. Miller, B. S. Carlton, A. S.
Angell. A. W. Brown, P. L. Cheek,
A. R. Adams, E. D. Poster and T.
W. Speer. '
A reader asks: "What do you
say to a husband who abuses his
wife?" Well, the usual words are,
"Rest in peace."
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None of 14 Passengers andl
Crew Members Located;
Believed Dead
DESTROYERS SEARCHING
Washington, Aug. 3.—Submar
ine S-43 reported to the navy de
partment tonight that it had
found two bundles of mail and an
uninflated rubber lifeboat in the
wreckage of a Pan American-
Grace Airways flying boat which
sank off Panama today. The mail
included 52 letters.
Other articles salvaged includ
ed:
Two life preservers in a case,
five seat cushions, three head
rest cushions, one metal foot rest,
one container of ice cream, one
rug 10 feet square, and numerous
broken pieces of the plane.
None of the 14 passengers and
crew members were located. All
are believed dead. '
The wreckage was found at lat
itude 9 degrees and 25 minutes
and longitude 80 degrees, 3 min
utes and 30 seconds.
Part of a wing and an engine
casing were reported found by
submarine S-46. The navy said
both of the submarines will con
tinue the search throughout the
night and tomorrow and navy
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planes will resume the hunt at
daylight.
Three destroyers—the Mahan,
Bahbitt and Taylor—are also en
gaged in the search, officials re
ported. I
Among the passengers were a
mother and her two Children, two
comiherce department officials
from Washington, a representa
tive of the National City Bank of
New York, and an employee of the
Ford Motor company.
Daniel Boone who opened up
and made 'possible the settlement
of thousands of miles of territory
was twice stripped of all the lands
he owned and died without own
ing enough land to be buried on.
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ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES
After you have tried this treatment you will be
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Registered and Licensed by the State of North Carolina
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CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sin
cere appreciation to those who
were so kind and helpful to us
during the sickness and after the
death of our beloved husband and
father, Thomas R. Newman. Also
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