On the high roaa 



between Athlone 



and Mtdlingar, 



Ireland 



John M c Coraiacks first audience 



The Irish lad who ran away to be a minstrel 

 and grew up to be a world -famed artist 



A boy nine years old stood at a street corner on a "fair day'' in Athlone and 

 listened to an old fiddler and ballad singer. The first thrill of romance surged 

 in the boy's veins. When the wandering minstrel struck out for the next town, 

 the lad trudged blissfully by his side, with boyish indifference to the home folks 

 beside the river Shannon. Two days later the boy's frantic parents overtook 

 him at Mullingar. He got no "licking" — only a mother's blessing and the tears 

 of those who heard him sing "Molly Brannigan," the first ballad he ever learned. 



Thus did John McCormack take his first journey on the high road to Fame. 

 Today the minstrel-boy has grown into a world-famed artist, a singer renowned 

 in every land. His first wayside audience of country folks has swelled to vast 

 audiences filling the great auditoriums in the capitals of the world and to that 

 still mightier host who know and love him through his Victor Records. 



John McCormack makes records for the Victor exclusively. With the artist's 

 sure instinct, he knows and appreciates Victor Supremacy. 



Hear the McCormack records at the nearest Victor store. 

 Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U.S.A. 



Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors 



Victor Supremacy 





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THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 



