There was something unusually loveable
and appealing about the modest, serious
singers as they formed a close semi-
circle about their self-effacing director
for their initial offering ; the handsome,
portly [!] Madame von Trapp in simple
black, the others in black and white. It
was only natural to expect work of ex-
ceeding refinement from them, and one
was not disappointed in this " ; and so on,
a long column.