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Show GOOD JOKE ON KUBELIK. In6ane Woman's Naive Comment on His Playii.g. The approaching marriage of Jan Kubelik, the violinst, to the Countess Marianne Csaky recalls an Incident in his career which he told to a well-known well-known impresario not long ago. "I was asked to play before the Inmates In-mates of an insane asylum by an alienist," said Kubelik, "the doctor believing that music was a fine medicine medi-cine for unbalanced minds. I accordingly accord-ingly accompanied him to the institution, insti-tution, where he introduced me, and said I would favor my hearers with something gay and happy. "I hadn't intended to do this, but following his suggestion, I played a brilliant Slav composition, which I hoped would be joyous enough. The crazy folk were all seated about the platform in chairs and seemed to be intensely interested. As I finished, a very pretty young woman rose and beckoned to me. I thought, artistlike, artist-like, that she wanted an encore, and so said to the doctor: "'Ask her what she desires.' "He rose to his feet and was about to question her, when she exclaimed: " 'To think of the likes of me being be-ing in here and he being at large In the wurrld!' "That was the last time I ever played in an insane asylum." New York Times. |