| Show ENJOYING A SHOW A charity concert in london and th it attracted the audience certainly was a terrifying one the front rows of the big hall were filled by old women very severe or else smiling the perpetual smile of vacancy then came a grimy group 0 dock bands their wives some of them in charge of three babies apiece were all over the room the girls came in huge feathered hats and yelled high pitched witticisms to the gangs of young hooligans whose one desire teemed to be to wreck the show indeed they contributed even more audibly to the entertainment than did the performers while the clergy who patrolled up and down seemed on excellent terms with everybody but quite powerless to control a good part 0 the audience somebody opened with a piano solo neally people might have nore sense than to choose a chopin nocturne nic turne tor such an audience the was twice told to go and get an organ there was a shout for some tune unknown to us and after that the rendering of chopin was permanently drowned in general and stentorian conversation A girl with ambition to become a professional next bang amid audible comments on the plainness of her and she quitted the platform in awful silence bertie and his cello had an even worse time he was invited to get his hair cut which waa certainly a piece of timely advice and at the first deep notes of his instrument there were anxious inquiries if he was in pain As this had a perceptible effect on irritable bertie there were general offers to attend his funeral and more advice to the effect not to take that old geezer out with you when you go courting by this time the troupe were terrified and the rector had to mount the platform andre ineat some sort of order outlook |
