The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-18
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concerts Of Tzingorjik for his Hall, al
though, as said, coughing in bored
sort of way, the managers Of all the
theatres in San Francisco were hot after
me to let them reveal the marvellous
Hungarian technician first. That's the
way L got the Music Hall without being
asked to post any forfeit or guarantee in
advance-the manager Of the Music Hall
had read those press notices wondering
1y, and had been endeavoring to locate
TzinEorjik even before T called to engage
the Hall. I wrote the advertisements and
had the manager OF the Music Hall send
them down to the papers. They were all
spreaders. and on the strength OF them
I hurled along quite a lot more has been.
Authorizations in the form Of press no.
tees respecting Tzingorjik's prowess as
a Nimrod in hunting Numidian lions, his
princely magnanimity as patron of
swell horse-racing in Austria and Russia
Il started the rumor that he had engaged
three American jockeys. including Snap.
per- Garrison, the top-notch jock at that
time, for the approaching Continental
racing season., his indifference to fem!-
nine goo-goo eyes on account of his en-
sagement to one of the princesses Of the
royal house of Romanoff and sundry and
divers other yen-hok yodlings Of that
character. BY the time the box-office
opened for the sale of seats for the three
Tzingoriik concerts, the line stretched
two blocks and around the corner. -es
Tzingorjibs manager, I took a couple
hundred out of the box-office receipts on
the first day of the sale, saying care
lessly that wanted to buy q. few thou
sand monogrammed cigarettes and had
left my wallet at the hotel Then. ac-
companied by Tzngorjik, whorc l togged
out artistcally, I set out to find a piano
-"rmpanist. We nailed the right one, q
70 /. man. and when this was ANNOUNCED
San Francisco was tickled almost fool
ish over the idea that the marvellous
Tzingorjik had selected San Francisco
piano vertuoso to accompany him, and
the house for the three nights was sod
out in canter the next day.
when Tzingorjik shaved off his beard
and mustach and had his mop chopped
in the back a la Rubenstein he looked the
part down to the fossil strata of the
icthyosaurian period, and when I had
some cuts Of his map inserted in the
newspapers they made such a hit that
the manager Of the Music Hall implored
me to let him have three more TzinEor-
jik dates for the following week. re-
luctantly onsented-uh-huh; reluctantly,
he thought.
did Tzingorjik get away with it? Did
Napoleon cross the Alps? TzingorJik
had the goods. I've got to make a stand
l.
could saw the catgut in a manner to
make you dream of the little old red
school house, and Aggie, your first sweet
heart. in her blue gingham sun-bonnet. at
the old turnstile, and when he had
brought the bow down on the strings
for the last time on the. night of his
first concert all Of 'em in the audi
ence, from top to bottom. were just hisn.
He had 10 execute a V-wedge to butt
through the gang that waited for him to
emerge, and all Of the Killed persons
were saying how sad 1t was that so
gifted a being as Tzingorjik should
have been deprived of his voice. The
ever declared that 'Tzingorjik needed
no voice. with a noble instrument, SO
nobly played, to speak for him. and
when O'Shaughnessy-that was Tzingor-
jik's name-read that in the privacy of
lis Palace Hotel suite-oh. Yes, yes. we
both had Palace Hotel suites then-he
let out such funny roar of JOY that l
had to stuff a. pillow into his face or
the whole frame-up 'ud have been given
SWAY through the medium of the belt
boys.
''TzingorjilS and only divided $4,000.
equally, that's ALL at the wind-up of
those six concerts in San Francisco. and
then took him down to Los Angeles
for three concerts there. Before the first
ervation. picked up a cargo Of red-eye
that would have sunk a high free-board-
ed lime-juicer brig, licked three piano.
movers of his race because they couldn't
CT wouldn't converse with him In the
Gaelic tongue-this was the give-away
that funnied the bones for fair his talk
ing, and particularly his spelling Irish
and that was the finish OF Tzingorjik s
triumphal tour. We came right anyway
from Los Angeles before the extra news
pa per editions were issued and five days
later put Tzingorjik O'Shaughnessy on
the steamer in New York. giving the
virtuoso's letter of credit for $4,000 into
the pursers hands to be cared for until
the other side was reached.
"That's how I sheered off from the gol-
den sands of the Pacific the last time
San Francisco got me down to take the
full count and if it hadn't been for a
Mick of weird genius might have been
there vet, subsisting on those dream
feeds So here's a vichy- and-mlk to
Tzingorjil1 and all the Irish!''