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Artistic Whistling is an acknowledged art and as such has gained much popularity the past few years, now ranking in marked prominence with other musical arts. To be sure, not all whistling is artistic whistling, but the true musician, the connoisseur, and the discerning listener, will readily detect the difference.

Miss Agnes Woodward of Los Angeles, California, for many years a prominent exponent of this unique form of musical expression, has devoted much time and thought to the study of bird-like whistling and now offers the public a book for the development and cultivation of nature’s instrument. In this little volume, she deals with various forms of bird songs, exercises for development, breadth, and enrichment of the whistle, as well as comprehensive and concise explanation of all figures.

From her study of the birds and their many songs, Miss Woodward has evolved an original system called “The Woodward Method of Bird Whistling.”

Miss Woodward is not only the originator of this unique system of bird whistling but is also the Director of the Agnes Woodward School of Whistling: the Conductor of “America’s Bird Whistling Chorus” of thirty whistlers: and is the only woman whistler to hold a gold medal for excellency in the whistling art.

Many of the finished whistlers on the American stage today have been students at this school. Its artists have filled engagements on the Orpheum and Keith Circuits; on the Pantages; at the Hippodrome in New York, also at the Music Box Review; have toured in England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand and South America: made records for the different phonograph companies; filled engagements with the Harry Lauder Company; completed many different seasons’ engagement with the various Chautauqua and Lyceum Bureaus; engaged in concert work; appeared with great success at the different moving picture houses; and have been regularly paid church soloists in Oakland, California, in Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Students have also filled successfully many radio programs.

L. E. BEHYMER

NOTE:—Mr. Behymer, one of the world’s greatest impressarios, well-known musically on two continents, has received high honors from both the French and Italian Governments—from the former the “Order of The Palms,” constituting him “Officer d’Academie”—and from the latter the “Crown of Italy,” carrying with it the office of Cavalier (Cavalier della Corona d’Italia).