The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-19
you ALL KNOW HIM.
The Young Man af n Concert Who
Does Everything But Listen.


| Does Everything Rut Listen.
The prize idiot and 424 other people
| faced the north wind last evening Il
hear Marshall's first ten cent concert a
| Hamilton hall. Il was a popular price
concert, the music was of the popular
| kind, and everything about it was popu-
lar except the prize idiot.
| He was there prepared to enjoy him
SELF He was all there, including his
| feet, and hands and mouth.
The very first selection was a march
| and the prize idiot who had heard it be-
fore and was proud of ii, hummed il and
whistled it with the band. keeping time
the while by kicking the chair in front
of him and jarring the entire row.
A good many people looked at him in
a way meant TO be perfectly annihilat-
ing, but he had paid ten cents to get in
the concert and he proposed to get his
moneys worth whether other people did
or not.
After the overture there was an encore
and no doubt the prize idiot is today tell
ing his friends how ne was responsible
for it,
He was old enough to know better, but
he chewed gum and teetered up and down
on his seat with broad grin on his face
and treated the applause as though it
was a slapping match to see who could
slap the loudest. At its close he pro-
claimed his superiority by giving three
loud slaps after everybody else had fin
ished, and the director had taken his
place again, OF course every body looked
at him, as anybody naturally would at
prize idiot, and he enjoyed the notoriety
he was getting, and laughed aloud over it
During the playing of the character
istic "TomahaWk Dance" he almost
howled his appreciation and at the I'M
earthly noises of the horns explained to
everybody within hearing distance that
''them was the war whoops."
While the band was playing the waltz
LA Serenata," he attested his delight at
good waltz we'll played by waving his
hands and swaying his body in time with
the music till it is a wonder he didn't
have blind staggers.
When an encore was played he put in
the time guessing what it was, in a loud
tone. For Instance instance; THAT King
twostep. No, it isn't its the
Honeymoon march, or else the 'Directo-
rate l don't know which," and there
were grateful intervals in which his ig-
norance kept him quiet for as much as
two minutes.
"The Darkies' Frolic" was on the pro-
gramme and the prize idiot had heard
that before too SO he put on his grin and
helped out the clog effects by beating on
the floor with his toes.
He almost hurt himself laughing when
three or four ladies jumped at the sud
den reports of the pistols in "A Hunt in
the Black Forest" and as the band start
ed the closing march he thumped both
feet on the floor and standing up put on
his overcoat while everybody emain ed
seated so that he obstructed the view
and disturbed everybody for a dozen
seats around him.
A Topeka man who has attended al
most every concert Morshali's band has
given for years will take oath that the
prize IDIOT is always present, that very
often he is there in threes and tours and
sometimes by the dozsn and that every
body else would like to have him kept
off the premises.
The total receipts last night were less
than $40. This is chargeable TO the
weather and Mr.. Marshall does not feel
discouraged and will probably give
another concert in very few weeks