THE PIANO WENT ON PLAYING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1123, 19 October 1911, Page 22

THE PIANO WENT ON PLAYING.

The huge hall was packed to its utmost limits. People had come in their thousands to see Professor Faker’s famous performing dogs, the only dogs in the world who could play the piano. Amid breathless silence the famous dogs (Beppo and Ponto) were placed on stools before the piano. Their paws touched the keys. Then “Wonderful! Bravo! Excellent!” cried the enthusiastic audience as an exquisite melody floated through the hall.

The dogs were in the middle of the piece when a cruel joker in the audience suddenly cried: “Rats!” At once they sprang from their stools to hunt beneath the piano. “Boo! Frauds! Money back!” yelled the audience. They were cross.

And no wonder, too, for the piano went on playing merrily. It was an automatic one!