Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1912 — Pop Bottle Answers to “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pop Bottle Answers to “Oh, You Beautiful Doll”

DETROIT, MICH—To inculcate music into unresponsive souls of some of the folks of Cork town is a thankless. if not hopeless task, as Louis Fuciu, who plays the bass Addle in the German band experienced the other night. There he was, and bis four fellow artists poured forth- their sweetest Strains at Sixth and Abbott streets. With dreamy eyes Fuchs had Just finished the Intricate movements of Kascagni’s immortal Intermezzo and fend with ecstatic mien gone into the depths of Beethoven s divine Moonlight Sonata, when shouts of derision unnerved his aesthetic ear. Even that brilliant little musical gem, “Oh, Yon Beautiful Doll," which Is n** to hare moved Mozart to tear* avail in his grave, struck an unresponsive chord in that unmuAnd when the little fellow with the aeoood fiddle passed the hat, he col-

lected jeers instead of shekels. Truly, the lot of a wandering min* strel is a thankless one in this twentieth century. The orchestra moved away, seeking more congenial audiences. Just then somebody hurled a pul> bottle. It struck Louis Fuchs’ bass violin in its vital part, smashing it In the region of the bridge. There was an uproar in a minute. Orpheus soothed and tamed tb# wild beasts with his lyre, but to calm this crowd with even a hand organ was quite impossible. And so the street artists beat a hssty retreat*