STREET SINGING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 16

STREET SINGING

LUCRATIVE LIVELIHOOD

EARNED.

One of the surest ways to make money appears to be to go out into the street and sing, declares a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." . This was the experience of a young Manchester man, (Joseph Stafford, who, when he and a companion were fined at Willesden (England), went into the street and sang for a few hours and- r earned enough to pay both fines. London is flooded with street singers, and many of them find it a very paying occupation. Recently a well-dressed man ma.de a round of the South Coast with a tin whistle. Afterwards he was seen to leave a good hotel and drive off in a motor-car with every appearance of prosperity. He has whistled himself into affluence. A street s'jnger in a ' London Police Court recently said he could earn £1 an hour by his gutter performances. He had refused an offer of £8 per week oh the music hall stage. In Nottingham street musicians refused comfortable situations in orchestras, stating- that they were able to earn £10 without having to pay income tax. It is stated that the public are more inclined to give money to a well-dressed man singing or playing in the street than to a man wearing shabby clothes.