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Music: In Binghamton, Walska

Great prima donnas usually do their singing in great cities, where great crowds besiege the box office for the privilege of hearing great music. Ganna Walska, different, opened a concert tour last week in the Central High School Auditorium at Binghamton, N. Y. This caused Critic Martha Wheatley in the Binghamton Press (circulation 34,800) to write as follows:

"Some came to doubt and remained to marvel at the will to do, on the part of this extraordinary woman. Some were frankly puzzled, yet duly appreciative of the pictorial impressiveness offered by the singer....

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