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Show HAS OWN ORGANIST Frick Employs Skilled Musician to Play for Him. Salary of $15,000 a Year Is Paid Archer Gibson for an Hour's Solo Each Morning on Millionaire's $100,000 Instrument. New York Pity the hard lot of Archer Gibson. He gets $15,000 a year for fingering a $100,000 organ an hour a day and rendering "Dearie" between the classical thunderings and groanings of the costly pipes. Also he gets a summer home you'd wish you owned it if you saw it and a nice, comfortable automobile. Archer works at the above-mentioned laborious labo-rious task to delight the musical soul : of Henry Clay Frick, multimillionaire , Pittsburg steel magnate, whose sum- ' mer home is at Pride's crossing, near Beverly Farms, Mass. Every day at two p. m. the phone rings in the Gibson house and the organist motors over to the Frick I mansion. There in the music hall, the silent, gruff money giant sits waiting for his daily music. While the nimble fingers of Organist Gibson rip out peal srfter peal of stuff that dead men wrote the kind that no one could see any merit in while the composer was alive Henry Clay Frick, the tips of his strong fingers joined, listens in silence. After a particularly weird succession succes-sion of crashes and thunders from tho costly organ the millionaire's countenance coun-tenance loses its former expression of wrapt interest. He leans forward uneasily un-easily as the music bursts in a glorious glo-rious finishing flare. "Play 'Dearie!'" he commands. Then the $100,000 organ sends forth the strains of " that popular ballad, ladies and gentlemen," strains that the common instalment, go-as-you-please house piano used to know before every began " doing it," Usually a few repetitions of the above ballad are enough to allow a fresh start on the previous heavy stuff. And so the hour of music passes. |