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Show UNIQUE CASE OF FILIAL LOVE To Help His Mother a Penniless No-j No-j bleman "Tries" a Clown Act in Paris Theater. Visitors to Paris who have recently wandered by chance into, one of the "cafe concerts," which are mostly frequented fre-quented by that class who neither toil nor spin, must have been amazed and saddened by a very unusual music hall turn, writes the Paris correspondent correspond-ent of the Brooklyn Eagle. Every night, between the "sentimental tenor" ten-or" and the "chanteuse legere," a mournful looking young man appears. He is greeted with derisive yells. He sings, or tries to sing, a sentimental senti-mental ballad and a comic song. He also imitates animals, the noises of tools and the whistling of locomotives. The effect is so deplorable that the audience recently insisted on the "noble "no-ble clown" apologizing for his lack of skill. He humbly advanced to the footlights and bowed to right, left and before him. Then in a voice choked with sobs, he began to express his regret. re-gret. With pathetic resignation he went down on his knees, offered profuse pro-fuse apologies for his lack of skill and promised to do his best to please them in the future. Few who have seen this lamentable exhibition know its origin and excuse. ex-cuse. This abject buffoonery is inspired in-spired by one of the noblest motives filial love. This descendant of one of the oldest and noblest families in Venice Ven-ice was left alone, when very young, with his infirm and penniless mother. For many years they lived on' the charity of friends, but the old woman is now in such health that admission into an almshouse would be the only means of saving her life. But this cannot be obtained without the payment pay-ment of a certain sum, and her son is now employing the only means of procuring it open to him. |