REQUEST FOR QUICK MUSIC.
Cortot, the celebrated pianist, is fond of a good joke on himself. Dining with friends one night, he was persuaded at the end of the meal to play a rhapsody, which he did with good grace and bril-, liance. Pale with emotion, a young woman who had been fluttering for a time on her /chair, suddenly stood up and said:—
"How divinely you play, maitre, but may I ask you a question? "Ask it, I beg you." "Is a quaver played quickly?" ; "Good heavens, I should say it is." "And "a semi-quaver?" * "Much more so." • ! '
"Oh, maitre," said the lady beseechingly, "do play one for mcl"
THE WAITER'S DILEMMA.
A party of four went into a restaurant to have supper after the theatre. A very prim womani who was the guest of the evening, was charmed with everything, especially the music. While the waiter was standing by' her table, she asked' him to find out the title of the piece the orchestra was playing. The willing waiter promised. Other duties claimed him for a time, and when he returned the prim woman had oompletly forgotten her request. When he bent towards, her and softly whispered something in her ear, she recoiled in horror. Then recovering from the shock, she turned with cold, relentless fury upon the hapless man who waited. ' . ■ ' "How dare you!" she cried. "How dare you!"
And it took the terrified waiter quite a time to explain why he had merely breathed the title of the piece so softly— '"What Can I Do to Make You Love Me?"
REQUEST FOR QUICK MUSIC.
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 17
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