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At 25¢ a lover, 150,000 lovers of sentimental music and spectacle from what the Chicago Tribune calls “Chicagoland” one night last week had a grand time. At Chicago’s Soldier Field 4,000 contest winners from 35 midwest cities roared the Hallelujah Chorus, 1,100 musicians blared through such barber-shop favorites as “Home, Sweet Home,” “Sweet Adeline,” a squad of “Blacksmiths” banged 6-in. sparks from anvils in time to Il Trovatore’s Anvil Chorus, cannons on the lakefront boomed for Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Proceeds of the festival went to charity.
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