RICH STREET SINGER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19000, 24 October 1923, Page 4

RICH STREET SINGER.

One of the surest -ways to make money appeal’s to be to go out into the street and sing. This was the experience of a young Manchester man, .Joseph Stafford, who, when he and a companion were fined at Willesden, ,;vW., went into the street and sang for a few hours and earned enough to pay both finos.

London is flooded with street singers and musicians, aild many of them find it a very paying occupation. Recently a well-dressed man made 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. lie had whistled himself into affluence.

A street singer in a London Police Court recently said he could earn £1 an hour bv his gutter performances. He had refused an offer of £8 per week on the music hall stage. . . In Nottingham street musicians refused comfortable situations in orchestras, stating that they were able to earn £lO a week without having to pay income fax. It is stated that the public are more inclined to give money to a well-dressed man singing or playing in the street til an to a man wearing shabby clothes.