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MONDAY, DECEMBER 11,

1933.

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there. Mind you, I had no trouble with the police, because I'd taken "At Shoreham by father came the trouble to find out what the after me. He'd guessed what had police could do and what they could happened. Well, I wouldn't go not de. You know the police can't back with him. I knew I had a move you on far, and they can't vocation, and I couldn't leave it move you on at all unless there's a He was very mild, as usual. In the personal complaint from a resident. lend he said, 'Just as you please, "Well, I'd been playing a pretty Jimmy. You know where I live a long time in front of one house one case you come to grief. I dare say morning-I'd surpassed myself- you'll be strolling along in about aand a man came out of a door and fortnight. And it's all experience.' backoned to me very politely. He must any he had some senssin gave me a shilling and asked me some things. But he was cynical. to tell him about my cornet, and he "I was soon playing in the or- took me upstairs to the second chestra. But not the cornet. No. floor-there were three floors, over The drummer went off on a drink-ļa shop. As soon as I was in his ing bout.

so I offered to play the rooms he wanted to examine the drum. But I was practising on the cornet. He was still very polite. I cornet all the time. The cornet-gave it to him, and he hit me over player-he was called Jeroboam-the head with it and began the he seemed to like teaching me. It most extraordinary tirade-how I was a glorious life, even when It was driving him mad, etc., etc., and rained, was Radlett's Royal Circus. how be'd do for me if he ever heard "1 gat spoony on the Snake Girl me again. Can you imagine it?

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was a goodish bit of the tender There was some tusale, and I foll passion around Radlett's. Oh, | downstairs from the second floor to yes His eyes twinkled.

the first; but I'd got my cornet, all dented as it was. My head Was bleeding.

"One morning I serenaded her on the cornet outside the caravan where she slept. And there was a "Then a door opened on the first devil of a row about it. I'd wak={floor, and a lady came out. She ed her up. Still, she liked me, but heard the noises and me falling and she said she wouldn't have any the fellow shouting. thought I thing to do with me unless I gave was in for more trouble. But no! up the carnet. It wasn't the sound She said: 'Are you that splen- she objected to so much as shak-did cornet-player?" And she ing the moisture out of the in- took me and lonked after me. Now. strument after you've been playing she played the cornet herself; she it a bit. Said she couldn't stand loved the cornel. She was A that. Of course, I wouldn't give widow: about twenty-six. Her!

Barbara St. John Hutchinson The engagement of Miss Barbera St. John Butchinson, daughter of a prominent British attorney, to Vio for Rothschild, nephew and heir of Land Rothschild, one of the world's, wealthfest men, was announced on the occasion of the groom-to-be's 23rd birthday. He is the only soni of the late Charles Rothschild, brother of the peer.

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was

a real corset-player. That some was how I began, sir."

"But that's not all," I said, engor "There must be a lot for more. more."

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Circuits. We did several tours. and in between tours we would go! back to our little house and enjoy ourselves. Yea, it

nice, varied life. And then the next thing happened."

"Yes?"

B was

chase system. After that I felt Alicia Williams. She

gave те lemonade and showed

me her cornet. It was a superb in strument. She locked, the door, and as soon as I'd recovered a bit I played it for her in her drawing- room. The stamping overhead was

"Ah!" he mused. "What an idyll dreadful, but i kept on playing. 1 had to stay there till evening till those years were! Nothing like it the fellow upstairs had gone out. before, and there'll never be any-

"Well, she liked

she thing like it again-not in this me, and

world, nor in kingdom come either." playing, and adored my

she alono, and

"And then!" she Baw та F1 gentleman-

"Oh, there is!" I offered him a cigarette, which The refused. "Waitress!" Reiterst

ed

A ran.

smile. "Packet of fcigarettes, please."

He resumed:-- "The most astounding thing that ever happened to any man happen- was all

Yes, the most astound-at ed to me.

Lo.

once

"Ah Waltreas!

Another coffee, And to me: "I ing By the way, I ought to men- not as ordinary streetplayer, and I please, my dear."

her. tion that I left that circus. Bad married We joined cornets, suppose I may as well finish the.

Now that's what I story now I've begun it. Eh?" The Snake Girl made life too no to speak.

obvious he fully in- hard for me. But when you have say is the most astounding thing As It was been in one circus it's not very dif- that ever did happen to any man, tended to finish the story, I merely ¡ficult to get into another one. In and you can say what you like! Ahi nodded.

the next one I was billed as a solo But I can't describe it to you." cornet-player. About a year later

"The great conductor." he said. Kravely,

"A big man in his time," I said. "A big man for all time, my dear Isir Some friend of his had ac

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"One night, when my wife made

I did not say what I liked, for if rather a mess of a duet with me on I got a letter from August Manns. had I should have said that he the atage of a music-ball at Read- August Manns, if you please ask was not telling this story for the ing, I noticed in our dressing-room ling me to go and

ace him. Of arst time; I should have asid in- that her lips were quite blue after I course you don't remember him?" deed that he had told it many times alte had taken the paint off.

"You mean the Crystal Palace before. He had dramatic gestures and I was not wrong.

thought I knew what that meant, 1 insisted on urchestral conductor?"

and pauses. and some of his

her going to London with me early phrases were rather effectively

in the next morning. A doctor chosen.

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can describe

forbade her to play the cornet any it to me," I said.

You see. more, Heart trouble! "Well," he took breath. "I don't the strain of cornet-playing is severe. Singers whose hear me play in the circus. I got suppose there ever was a courtship rather a day off and saw him, and he of- or a honey-moon like ours. Allein hearts go wrong have to give

Much more cornct- fered me a plare in the Crystal was a bit older than me, and knew singing.

¡more about men than I knew about player, I got the doctor to tele- She saw, of course, that I graph her certificate of Illness to "Well," I agreed, "that was cer-women.

was a sensitive sort of person-Reading, and my wife never play. 1ainly astounding."

"Oh!" he corrected me sharply, especially in the matter of money; ed again. Neither did I ever play "That's not the astounding thing. she had money and I hadn't—and again-in public. It was a fright- she always behaved with the great ful blow to both of us. She was est tact. She gave me a new cor-still young, stili beautiful, and "I played in the Crystal Palace net. No, she insisted on giving me had been making a name, in spite orchestra. Yes, sir, 1 played in hers, because I liked it so much, of my deplorable classical style." Beethoven's C minor symphony." and she got a new one for herself. He smiled sardonically. "But

During our courtship we used to go were very fond of one another-ex- out into Epping Forest and play to-cuse these details, my dear air--

Palace orchestra.

1 see nothing astounding in that

"I beg pardon "

"On the cornet?"

"On the cornel."

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"I don't know much about gether, all among the trees and and managed to be very happy in The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Bouthampton and music," I said. "But surely there's far from anybody, except a gipsy our house in Epping Forest Our Like all artists, I needed an au-fof Epping-some of 'em call it a

no cornet purdt in the C minor?" for two now and then. It was won- thoughts, and hers especially, turn-dience if I was to obtain any satis-town. We have money. I am

as my wife's family man. No, I couldn't honest- "There is not. But don't you derful, really wonderful. I can ed in other directions another faction. As soon know, aren't you aware, that in never forget those days. And direction. She loved me to play health was thoroughly re-establish-ly way I'm unhappy. And yet those days, when you simply after the wedding we took a small for her, and even in the winter weed she would go out with me to liet couldn't get horn-players in Eng house in the forest: very small; would go out together nearly every ten It was summer; the weather "Now and then I go and look at land, the horn part were played we didn't want to be bothered with day-except Sundays and I would was heavenly. I was hippy, and the pond. I expect I couldn't play I thought she was. My playing cornet now if I tried. 'It's all "I'm sorry," I said, humbly." servants; but soon we got a deaf play in the gladen. D

woman for a skivvy; and when I "In the spring my wife, if you'll had even improved. But one day gone from me. Now and then I did not know. I was not aware,"

Bay he perdon the old-fashioned phrase, her nerves appeared to give way have to come to London on little "Manns saw that I had proper plava in her car she'd

obs and without word anatched I always carry this case. I don't lessons. He was very enthusiastle thought she could hear something presented me with twins. Gener- suddenly. She burst into terrible matters of business; and when I do Generous! Yes, she Loust- so en-but wasn't sure,

had about me because I was

generous mind. the cornet from me and threw it know why: Yes, I do know why. into some bushes. She shouted: It's because I like musicians, to thusiastic about the cornet. He

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"And then my one trouble was

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"I discovered afterwards

said I had a finer classical style removed. My father died and I than any other cornet-player he'd came into between four and diverse by profession, and almost as can't bear it! I can't bear it any know Pm a cornet-player or wis did you ever hear such a story? charge of the nursey. I began to changed her. ever heard. So I had and have. hundred a year. It was all ideal generous as Alicia, came to take longer! Motherhood had quite one once." He shot the case.

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men either. But she played with cornet seemed to send the pair of manner. I picked my cornet ant of I'm very grateful to you for telling "Manns died. Soon afterwards I taste; and she was willing to learn them straight into hysterica. the bushes and we walked home in it to me."

"I hoped they would get over this silence, except that my wife never. "I thought, you'd be interested," was playing in the streets. Bow You couldn't guess what happened with my father. The mere fact is next"

curious aberration of natural taste, ceased sobbing. When we reached he said, with naive pride. enough, I need not go into detail

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"No. I doubt if I could".

Yes, I was playing In the “It happened what happens to all same. The mere sight of the saleed hold of both of them, and hurry."

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| atrocis Me, I was being paid to move on. I made quite a decent artists. We bell wanted to show cornet upset them. I per- walked up and down the bedroom He looked at his watch:

nervered, but there was no Inwith them in her armas, still "sob"]:

'STARVING" -- living by moving on." He stared our powers to the public, to movement. At last my sister-in-bing. An awful scenel at me proudly, quivering, lol pleasure to others by means of our

playing the cornet in the bouse she net solo. I took the instrument. The protege of the arsat Haznear Naturally! We got tired of law told me that if I didn't stop "Well, I had played my last.com

"I was in this moving on business playing, always to ourselves. would have to leave, as she couldn't and threw it into a pond-drown Clambering on to a tram, a ed it, drowned it!"" Hireyes shone beggar made a piteous appeal for that the astounding thing happened tried to get openings at concerts take the responsibility. to me. I used to play in Slotted But there was nothing doing. The went out into the forest and with emotion: "We've been, happy. Alms, saying he had no money to street, near the top Best plios in motion of dusts two cool played by myself but I had to What man could be unhappy with a buy, bread, London. Full of rich shoppers, seemed to frighten the concert walk at least a mile to get out of women like my wife? Not ma! He Ripped and fell into the women with overfed pet dogs and agents. I could have had alium: earshot of the house, and, anyhow, We have had more children. We road, and coins totalling 45 foll "no onion I was always moving on Lions in bands. But ng conductor I didn't like playing by myself, took a larger house in the village out of his pocket.

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