Music: ^Wilhelm Herp's Change

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With 21 other Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), small Wilhelm Herp, 12, was riding along in a special Pullman car between Three Rivers and Quebec one day last month, rehearsing for the next concert. Suddenly, to the dismay of Wilhelm Herp & friends but as it must to most young males, adolescence came to Wilhelm Herp. In the midst of a note his clear young alto voice sharply, ludicrously "broke." Obviously he could sing no more on the Wiener Sängerknaben 's U. S. tour (TIME, Nov. 14). There were 30-odd concerts still to come. Adolescent Wilhelm Herp had thus become a problem. Sending him home alone to Vienna would not do. He must sing no more, not only because he would spoil the choral effect but because he might hurt his changing voice.

In Manhattan where concerts will keep the Vienna boys over the holidays Wilhelm Herp was set to work last week paring and scrubbing vegetables in the apartment occupied by the Singing Boys. Hereafter whenever the choir stops long enough to set up housekeeping he will help in the kitchen, occasionally cook. Wilhelm Herp likes his new job. He can eat all day if he likes, and whenever he concocts anything the boys like especially they applaud him as vigorously as audiences applaud their singing.