SHANNON CHORAL SOCIETY.

Shannon News, 8 December 1925, Page 3

SHANNON CHORAL SOCIETY.

The final committee meetting of the Shannon Choral Society for the season was held in Mr Moody's''office last Thursday, Avhen there were present Mr Howard Andrew (chair), Mesdames Biariber, Butler, Jones, Morgan, and Miss Aim, and the secretary, Mr Moody. * • The net balance of 'the last concert was £6 5s and- was considered very satisfactory. The credit Ibalance on. the season was £5 10s. It was resolved to> write and thank Messrs Morgan and Spencer for their splendid help at' the concent. Mr Andrew moved tat a hearty vote of thanks ibe'placed on record to. Miss Clifford-Jones for fie splendid work done during the last season in acting as Librarian and said the work had been done <very efficiently.—Carried unanimioiuisly. It was decided to hold the annual •meeting on Wftie finst Thursday in March and a recommendation was made to the new committee to have' a set piece, for one of the concerts in next season. A hearty vote Qf tanks was accorded to Mr Moody for the good work done 'by him as secretary of the. Society. A motion «f sympathy was passed in silence to the Rev. A. F. Stewart and family in the great loss of their son. passed as quickly as it came, and was always followed by some kind act, Avhich was at once a sign of repentance and a bid for . reconciliation. The'man upon whom he had poured his angry scorn Avould the same evening be-sharing a good dinner from him and sitting beside him in a box at a theatre. •Once, many years after he had achieved fame, he gave a luncheon to inaugurate s. patent food, and presented each of the three or four hundred guests with a gold watch, complete with luminous face then a novelty—and chimes. This lavisliness Avas the talk of the town. Lesson For A Trainer.

"Sandow's most impresisve feat or strength, in my opinion, was performed in private," said, Mr. Lang Neil, who w T as Sandow's general manager before the war. "He and I returned from lunch one winter's day to the institute in St. James's street. Sandow, who had eaten a hearty meal, wore a heavy overcoat and smoked a largo cigar. Suddenly- one of the trainers 'ln the room overhead, who had been amusing himself with a -1001 b weight, put in down none too gently on the floor. Sandow, wearing his overcoat and silk hat, went upstairs. He seized the'weight Avith one. hand. 'This is how you should pick up a hundred pounds,' he said, and. still talking, and smoking his cigar, lifted the weight easily over his head; 'and this is how you should.put it down.' He put .it on the floor as lightly as a feather. Men from all walks of life consulted Mr. Sandow. I remember Sir George Alexander was acting once in a play in which he had to throw a man over the side of a ship. He was not physically a strong man, so he came to us to teach him how to do it."