NOT IN THE CELESTIAL CHOIR.
When is a cathedral not a cathedral? Seemingly, Avhen it is a concert room, writes "M.A.P." Anyway, a devout individual at the recent Gloucester Musical Festival had made up his mind that a church Avas ahvays ana ever a church — i.e., a place Avhere whoso listed might go and pray Avhen he would. He presented himself at the doors one morning Avhen an oratorio was in full swing within, and Avas much aggrieved when he found him- ■ self debarred admission without payment of half-a-crown. As he reluctantly turned away, he remarked to the verger severely, though perhaps a trifle irrelevantly — " Will they make me pay tAvo and six at the gate of heaven?" "Well, my friend," said the man in the block gown soothingly, " you won't hear Mme. Albani in Heaven* you know r»
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 9 (Supplement)
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139NOT IN THE CELESTIAL CHOIR. Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 9 (Supplement)
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