TWO DAYS’ DISCOMFORT

Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 11

TWO DAYS’ DISCOMFORT

JAZZ BARD CONDUCTOR IN GAOL FOOD NOT AITR EC I ATE D. Toddy Brown, 25st weight, and jazz (land conductor, has had an unpleasant experience. He was arrested for nonpayment of income Lax, and spent two nights in prison. When friends bad made arrangements for a settlement on his behalf, Brixton Prison ollieials opened the wicket gale for Brown to pass out. m freedom, but tin's was too small for him, and the carriage gale had to be opened. A number of Iriends, including Ids band in full regalia, greeted him with a cheer as he emerged, pale, but smiling. It. bad been intended to give him musical honors down the drive Imm the prison gale, hut (he. Governor came out amt requested the party not to make a noise as a child was lying seriously ill in a house nearby. Once out of earshot, however, the hand struck up ‘ I Toole One Look at Yon and Then My Heart Stood Still.’ .Brown found the prison fare so unpalatable that during his two days (here ho ate nothing. He also went sleepless and unshared, liking neither his lied nor the prison razor. DAY OF CONTRASTS., Soon after his release lie was entertained at a complimentary luncheon at the Cafe Anglais—his first meal for two and a-half days. In a talk with a representative ol the ‘Sunday News,’ Brown talked feelingly of prison life discomforts. “Sleep! Do yon think I. could balance on the narrow bed they gave me.-' And the food, f’gh! Dry bread and cocoa for breakfast. dry bread and tea for luntdi, more cocoa, and still more dry bread for dinner. They were generous on Sunday. They oflered me lour ounces of meal, but. I couklii I look at

“ They wauled hip In malm mailbags and tliat. sort of I long. I i'J t ,; ‘You bring me my sa.xophonc. Tiia t s the work 1 do.’ " Not many men li.w; passed suni a day of vicissitudes as - Hrown. Morning found him in a prison coll; evening found him in the company of the Prince of Wales at a French Kmbassy ball, where bis band supplied the music.