Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — The Pianist Who Knew His Business. [ARTICLE]

The Pianist Who Knew His Business.

Perhaps nothing can exert a more powerful Influence on the feelings, rhe sympathies of the human race, than music; When it is appropriate'it la a great boon, but men’s opinions as to what is appropriate music vary considerably. A,traveling showman recently said: “I took out a tableau show some time ago, and I had some queer experiences. We always had trouble getting suitable music, for one thing. I remember that we struck a certain town where the music was furnished by a seedy, freckled-faced young man, who officiated at a wreck of a piano. “I asked him if he could think of music suitable to each picture as it was displayed. ‘Certainly he could, and do it impromptu.’ The performance opened. He was seated at the piano, and he turned to look at the first tableau. It was a representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Like a flash he turned and began pounding out ‘There’s Only One Girl in This World for Me.’ ”