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Dedicated to the Service of the People That No Good Cause Shall Lack a Champion and That Evil Shall Not Thrive Unopposed.mem:NEWSPAPERASOC1AIPIJBLI3I iekah ofiI KBS' ASSOOJA1 PUBLICATIONBwmid N*w» Company Publ ishlt;INDEPENDENT Tft# Li Pam Herald lt;EJ Ptao Herald Include*.NEWSPAPICH-1 ISS1 The r absorptionindent. The Journal.ADVERTISING BEPRKSENTATIVI: . ■5 ASSOCIATED PRESS 11 , mi the use for publication * patches credited uroRTTKTOHTH T1 N®. S44—Entered si lexas^ as second cRewa Reyes (Reva it was, but now she has taken the extra v with professional solicitude for keeping newspaper editors, typesetters, and proof readers on the alert to get her right even if they have to do it over)—Rewa Reyes would be exactly five feet tali if she were a quarter of an inch shorter. By carrying a pound and half of sugar in one hand and a pound and a half of spice in the other she can tip the cales at 100 pounds—but she needs neither sugar nor spice, balances at 97 only.In “The Patsy,” wherein s ih# unforgetable star, she seemed very tiny as she slipped onto the big stage, and her comings and goings were as lightsome and swi and incalculable as the flight of butterfly. But from first moment to last, nobody could doubt that she dominated the play, the cast, house. People’s eyes hurt and became watery with concentrated atching of her pretty attitudes, while the audience smiled and chuckled and laughed out loud broke speeches into smithereens with spontaneous applause time she spun out, with faultless enunciation, odd little gems of worldly wisdom from her precious “Guide To Popularity’* in ree-par-given freely, and El Paso and the Southwest generally came to look upon her as indispensable if a program were to be complete and st cessful. At nine she gave Japane impersonations for the Spanish W Veterans in convention here, ten she danced and sang repeatedly for the Times Milk Fund. At eleven she was singing Christmas carols for moving picture holiday crowds. And so the record goes, day by day and week by week, all through theBy thei she 'This was her farewell appearance in El Paso and the Rocky Mountain Southwest and Mexico, for at least a year. So far as it can be said that any person is “beloved by all” in a big family like El Paso, Rewa car-ries with her to New York more than the good will—the deep and abiding affection of all of os three or four states and Mexico, who at any time have fa lien under the spell of her unstudied charm— and that means myriads.It has always been so—or almost always, for she has been “before the public” only 14 years. Fourteen is right. Rewa Reyes became a person of note at the age of three, when, having danced for Francisco Villa, and having won the instaut and almost passionate admiration of the man then a power in Mexico’s revolutionary government, she became Gen. Villa’s personal guest and, accompanied by her own suite of attendants, traveled with him in his private car during two years as he went about the war-torn republic, dancing for him among her playtoys entertaining his rough13 shebeing taken to conventions elsewhere as El Paso’s mascot and principal entertainer. She won Chicago with the Elks, the American Medical association meeting stopped for her, every little while something new and a larger triumph. A few months ago she was the outstanding attraction of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention with 40,000 visitors in Fort Worth, when that city wanted to adopt her and finance a tour of the United States for her as a novel advertising enterprise.In her little collection of souvenirs one may read enthusiatic letters from major generals, senators, Red Cross officials, and Jimmy Walker, mayor of New York. Paderewski offered his autograph, and her album contains the signatures of Paviowa, of Galli-Curci, and of many otfier great personages have yielded to the charms of the little lady with the big black flashing eyes.Few young girls could endure long and full an experience of popular applause and the adulation of notables, without having something happen to the head. But Rewa Reyes remains absolutely unspoiled. She is modest and reserved almost to the point of shyness. Her poise is remarkable, but her fine self command is that of naive young girlhood, not that of sophisticated experience of the world. Her sweetness is that of the half opened bud of the white rose, not that of the perfume extract. Her gaiety is genuine joy of life, not studied pose. Of her, bishop Schuler said recently, “I have observed her fo many years, and have seen nothing idmirabie in ail her conduct. She has fairi; ve of the people.”Through it all she has kept up her studies. She has been graduated with honors from Loretto college, and has advanced far In music, having studied piano with different teachers including Francis Moore; the violin and other instruments with her father, and theory with other teachers. She has had instruction in elocution and dramatic method. She has studied dancing with masters of international note. And she has taught dancing in schools, and has maintained regular classes and private lessons in her own studio. For several years she has been engaging in dramatic presentations of increasing importance, until just this week she gave El Paso a surprising and thrilling demonstration of extexcels In mastery of the violin; as Enrique Alferex of El Paso excels in sculpture; as Rafael Lozano hijo of El Paso excels in poetry and fine prose literature. Rewa Reyes is endowed with grace and beauty, but they would be of little worth without a mind to inform and ennoble, a will to drive, and a spirit to lift. She has all, in uncommon measure.It seems to The Herald that in all this there is a fine example of the heights to which Latin-American culture, grounded in the fine tradi lions of a proud and aensit nurtured in the favorable atmosphere of congenial environment may reach. Revva’s mother, wh will be with her in New York, is Kentuckian. Revva’s father is Castilian. He is a musician of su perior attainments, a composer, i teacher of all the band and orchestra instruments. He is best knlt; in El Paso for the work be has been doing these 25 years in bringing to thousands of boys and girls in the schools a practical knowledge of creative musical • production, and trained appreciation of good music.Reyes cannot play anything but good music. He will not lend his art to the denial of art, as itny do. He has devoted his life to public service, wholesome human sharing of his talents with those less privileged. Like his gifted daughter, he has never worked for money, but always for the joy of earnest labor, and for the satisfaction of knowing he has given of his best to the best that Is in lifi Rewa Reyes’s success up to and the greater success that is sure to be hers in the wider realms she is to enter, are eloquent tributes to the intelligent guidance and careful training she has had in the home at 315 South Ochoa street, where light after night, day after day, a all seasons and weathers, outof-doors in the “back yard” or under cover In a garage, boys and girls of people” (as Rayo Reyes lovingly calls them) meet to practice upon the divers* instruments he furnishes out of his limited resources, to have hour of pure unalloyed joy with the masters of music of all the ages, and to receive from him by golden example the great lesson of True learning and true enjoyment of life —that the things most worth while in the world are those things that cannot be measured by, or bougnt with, money.God speed thee. Little Friend Of All the World. The heart9 of your townsfolk, Rewa Reyes, are welling with gratitude for all you have done to help make life brighter and sweeter for thousands in your short but eventful life. Their wishes for your unbounded success and happiness are truly voiced through this tribute from one who has known your parents for a quarter of a century, and who has known you almost from your first appearance upon this earth, and who has never knowm anything of them or of you but what was worthy of admiration and of emulation.Iiou go forth as the titled representative of a race, the standard bearer of a people that has borne ith honor a proud namett!sthbefthisiMordinary artistry in “The Patsy.” It | ancien* center of transplanted andhappy augury for her, that herfarewell to El Paso took place under such pleasant auspices. It seemed as if her home folks choseready associates with her soft and ! t*ie °ceas,'on to give a grand send-pretty ways, her dancing and sing ing. Her father, Rayo Reyes, was inspector general and instructor for all the military bands in Mexico, and director of Gen. Villa’s famous band of 110 pieces. Rewa learned the geography of Mexico and also learned how to be a lady of the court of the would-be dictator.Returning to El Paso, her birthplace, Rewa, still under school age, was carefully instructed by her parents, and her father continued the musical training which it has been her good fortune to base from the time she began to coo. Dancing and dramatics were as natural to her as sleeping, and in them she found her recreation, her joy, and her spiritual outlet.Always she was most generous with her gifts, and at the age of five she was raising funds for relief of orphans of the Allies, and entertaining the American soldiers the border. At six she was wa the flag in patriotic American celebrations and dancing to stirring songs of war. At seven she presented a pageant and circus of her own invention for the Red Cross, entertained convalescent hospital patients and soldiers at Fort Bliss, and sang and danced for the troons of Camp Cody. At this time she was singfng “Hurrah For the Sammies,” waving tha. Stars and Stripe; shook her tiny fist and shouted “And We’ll Show the Bloomin’ Kaiser What the U. S. A. Can Do/I nfortunately no complete record has been kept of Rewa Reyes’s countless contributions to human welfare *hd happiness; her entertainments for soldiers, for the sick in hospitals, for lonely visitors, for convention crowds, for official dinner and luncheon guests of the city and the army, for schools and wel , fare organizations and social clubs, for the lodges, above all for charity and all relief agencies. Looking through the files of The Herald for the last dozen years, it b discovered that there is scarcely a week, scarce-w'hen Re viReylt;takenoff to “El Paso’s best beloved entertainer.”There is no telling where her bright path may lead. Her versatility is amazing. By her own efforts she has won the great opportunity her burning spirit long has craved. In New York she will spend some months under the famous Albertina Rasch, who has promised her personal attention; girls holding the Albertina Rasch certificate known the world around for their high technical attainments. R Reyes will study with Fokine, acknowledged leading exponent of the Russian Ballet in this country. She will take courses with Angel Cansino, greatest teacher of Spanish and Gypsy dancing. She will have private lessons with Martha Graham, the leading Modernist and Creative Expressionist.She will have six months of training under Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, and will specialize in the entire series of Oriental dances which these two have brought back to America from their two year tour of India, Egypt, Ceylon, Java, Burma, Persia, Arabia, China, and Japan. At the Denishawn school, too, she will study Greek, Pantomimic, interpretative. Character, and “Silent” dancing, pure rhythm, and the fine art of expression. Courses in dramatic voice production, play directing, and ballet management will follow.Who knows? We may have another Raquel Meller, or Ann Pennington, or Doris Humphreys, or Hasou-tra among us—until tomorrow noon, when she waves, goodbye and embarks upon her greatest adventure. She has never lacked the ability or the disposition to use her opportunities, and the opportunity is hers now to use—an opportunity she has won by and for herself through long and faithful adherence an exalted ideal. Rewa Reyes ver has degraded her art, never s failed to aspire always to het-r her own best In another and t less admirable field of art, she • ris as Sam Martinez of El Pa«^refined European civilization. __ Paso, and Mexico, and all this borderland, look for a realization in you of the vague dreams of high artistic achievement that have moved tens of thousands to play cheerfully their little parts in an indifferent world, and to go on to the enlt;i in hopes that some one would carry on in their name. That some one is you, and the hour is The Dawn.Center ShotsBy ROBERT QUILLEN.shoftoOur boloney for today; “I don’t believe any church should influeDce the government, noti my lt;The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because all classes like the same kind of bunk.“I am the choice of the people,” says the statesman, having received 60 percent of the votes of the 40 percent who voted.The final test of manhood is to wait until friend wife has finished her remarks and then close the door gently instead of slamming it.Among the unnecessary people are those who introduce you as the famous Mr. Soanso to people who never heard of you.When the devil decides to get a very good man, he always se lects for the work a woman who is tired of her husband.A South Carolina woman suf fered “nervous prostration” while watching a brick mason at work on her house. We’ve seen brick masons like that, too.Those who complain that political lies are in circulation will please name a president who was elected without benefit of lies.Yet the man who howls most about unfairness of tax reduction on large incomes never paids tax.Coiusoling thought! Bootlegging and other such wickedness would be as poor as virtue if they had to depend on a collection plate.It’s hard to make friends ii you are too particular. The kind you want are here, ail right, but they are particular, too.all I vect thhnted at the bridge
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Sat, Oct 13, 1928
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