The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-08
BARRIERS BREAK.
New York Artist Trims Musical
PrOdigy's Curls.
lola Boy Yiolinist Has Lost His
Stage Value.
DATES ARE CANCELLED
Manager Says $4,000 Worth
Of Contracts Are Void.
His Mother Is Frantic and Will
Sue the Barber.
DATES ARE CANCELLED

New York, July s.-The American
says:
An inoffensive pair of shears, a will
ing barber and a, boys desire not to
look like a sissy are responsible for
the Transformation of little Maurice
Warner, the boy violinist from lola,
Kansas, for whose musical education
the women of the Electric club raised
a fund of $4,000 from dreamy look
ing prodigy with long f1axen locks to
q plain, ordinary boy.
The consequent loss in the lads
marketable value has driven his man
ager to despair, caused the cancelIa-
ton of contracts worth $4,000, and
nearly broken Maurice's mothers
heart. incidentally the barber faces a
lawsuit.
The saddest part of the hirsute
tragedy is that nearly whole year,
aside from $1,000, has been spent in
inducing Maurice's hair to sprout to
the length of eight inches.
Occasionally it was necessary to
have the hair cut, but all the care
fitness that was always exercised! 1t
lust one-sixteenth of an inch was
shipped off to induce it to grow more,
and the mother was never happy after
these events until the handicap had
Two days ago the manager took the
prodigy out to have his hair trimmed,
and went to the "tonsorial Darlor'' of
Charles Kratz, at Third avenue and
One Hundred and Twenty-seven1th
street, to have the delicate operation
performed.
All would have been happily ended
If the manager had remained in the
barber shop, but he thoughtlessly went
out to buy something.
The barber didn't realize that the
lad in his chair was prodigy, nor that
his hair was worth about $4,000 an
inch to him. Then, he is alleged to
have appealed to Maurice'S boy spirit,
by telling him how much better he
would look with a short pompadour
instead of the long locks that some
times had to be tied with ribbons.
1t took Kratz but a few seconds to
clip off 124 times as much hair as
other BARRIERS had taken three hours
to cut.
Finally the manager CHANGED to
drop in and see how the operation was
progressing, and when he caught one
glimpse of his star he burst into
rage and demanded reparation.
The barber explained that this was
one of the cases wherein the past is
buried. and said that there was moth
ing to do but wait year and let the
hair grow. With mingled sorrow and
anger the irnpresario gathered up the
locks and took the violinist home to
MS mOInSrs VINO actually SucCunD ped
on seeing her boy and has since been
under doctors care for nervous pros
tration. Meanwhile Manager Erich
hurried to his offices and cancelled all
but one of the engagements at which
young Warner was scheduled to ap-
pear.
Mrs. Warner. when seen at her
home. No. So East One Hundred and
Twenty second street. said
At am just frantic over this affair."
and I have been suffering from nerv-
Gus prostration. The beauty of my
boys hair was something very very
dear to me, and, besides, it was abso-
1utely essential to complete the artistic
effect on his concert tour. Why. all
the ladies of the leading clubs in New
York have raved over Matrices locks,
and now, just to think, they are all cut
off. He Immediately cancelled the en-
gagements which he had made for this
summer, and we had been looking
forward so proudly to his debut at
Carnegie hall.
But I shall get justice from that
barber. Ny case is in the hands of
Mr.. NJ. P. O'Connor, in the Home Life
Insurance building, and am sure that
I can recover damages. Personally, I
would not take $4,000, the locks were
so dear to me-