Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — The Kick That Told. [ARTICLE]

The Kick That Told.

Maj. Walford Davies, who wrote the Air Force March, tells of an amusing experience which occurred once while he was hearing a rehearsal of one of his cantatas. “I could not help noticing,” relates the composer, “that the clarionet player, a young man, but a clever and steady lad, jumped a good deal during the progress of the rehearsal. Then I found that his father,* who played the trombone, sat just behjnd him, and every now and then he gave his son a kick, with the remark: ‘Look out, Sammy, there be a flat a-comin’ l’ ”