Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1912 — Unavailing Hero Worship. [ARTICLE]

Unavailing Hero Worship.

Herman Perlet, the musical director and composer, was recruiting a philharmonic orchestra and had enlisted the services of an Itallan-acquaintance. Among the instrumentalists he procured was a very old man with an antiquated flute from which he was able to get a wheezy tone now and then. "Take him away!” ordered Perlet after the first rehearsal. "He can’t play the flute. What! Thata man can’t playa da flute!" gasped the sponsor. "Not in this orchestra. Take him away!” "Maledetta!” He rolled his eyes heavenward. "Thata man can't playa da flute!” And he beat his breast in indignation. •'Why. thata man he fights with Garibaldi!”