Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1910 — Didn’t Like the Playing. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Like the Playing.

"For goodness sake, will some one come up and put a stop to whoever lb banging away on that piano in the room directly under mine? I have my window open and it is annoying the life out of me. I never heard such a jumble of tin-panny pounding.” It was a woman’s voice through the telephone at the Hotel Astor, the New York Herald says. Why, of course, the clerk would put the damper on the nuisance. In a jiffy a man was detailed to put a quietus on the provoking piano pounder. Reaching the spot where he was directed, he found about 150 persons collected outside the door. For the moment he thought it was an indignation committee, but he hesitated when he saw the manager of the hotel in the group with a bland smile of satisfaction and pleasure on his features. Inside the room, and wholly unconscious of any one listening, sat Signor Ferruccio Busoni, dreamily playing glorious symphonies with a high sense of expression and tone coloring. And tx.e tip-toeing auditors just outside the music room door were hearing the equal of a thousand-dollar concert for the listening. And she of the "third floor front” who raised the loud complaint has on several occasions paid an exorbitant figure for a coveted Beat at a concert given by the artist. Don’t worry if you can’t always have your own way. Sooner or later every man bumps up against a stone wall. In some families you are always placed in the position of having to "take sides.” . S.