The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-28
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE EVENT
How the Police Reporter Was I'm
pressed With Ysaye.

Belgium is noted for these:s Snide
shotguns rabbits (which are born
tame, and Ysaye. Mr.. Ysaye is not
such a bad sort. 1t is a bloomin
shame that he had to be born in Bel
GUM and grow up with such an awful
name. It is a cinch the other kids
called him Easy when he attended
school, and that his parents tried to
when he took to the fiddle habit.
1t is safe to bet as much as two
dollars that Mr.. Ysaye could not play
the instrument to any great advantage
The proper method of fiddlipg, like
wealth, is acquired, and not fQade to
order. Mr.. Ysaye acquired his. to-
gether with sundry a1n diTeFs Echins,
him last night are satisfied that he
has acquired. all he needs, and that if
we are satisfied he ought to be.
Ysaye is high priced person, but
he is honest about it. we do not as
a rule, pay a dollar throw for
comedy except at the Crawford. Mr..
Ysaye was not listed as an amusement
enterprise when the bosses of the
few chords in Topeka. He was rec
ognized as the real ething
you don't meet every day, and was
billed as such. He is not a humOrlSt.
introduces no horse play, and last
night he grinned only once. Then he
looked like his face hurt him, and the
grin was involuntary. He knows that
he is an artist of the first water. and
avoids the clown business. He did not
play 1.-THE Irish Wash erwoman" with
n waShbOard for Il bow, and he did
not roSin the off side of a beer bottle
and saw out the sad strains of 1.-THE
Old Mans Drunk Again" No, not
for Mr.. Ysaye. He figured it out this
way, and who viii say he was not
right?
majority of them do not know Con-
certo No. in = minor from a con
certa No. in Asia Minor, but it IS
down there on the program, and am
going to hand 1T to them from the
shoulder They would perhaps, give
me the glad hand the gleesome ha-ha
if I should deliver q few spasms Of
comic opera or other popular melody
but what's the diff? I know a dozen
men who can play that brand of goods
to beat four of a kind, but there are
only a few of the best of US who can
play Motto a. DagO POGO tempo the
one-spot and do it right 1t is a dern-
sight harder to deliver than Navajo
and these people have coughed W
their hard coin to hear me do my
blamedest. So here goes"
Therefore, while the public may not
be able to whistle what he played a
day later, it is better satisfied MI.
Ysaye was net expected to put on any
mulch for what he didn't Here are
some OF the things he did: He proved
to his audience that the same old home
" n1isshappen fiddle is the king OF rnusl-
cal instruments when handled by
first class fiduoso. A man may not be
able to make change for programme
which looks like stick OF pied type,
and still be able to recognize true mel
odv. when he meets it face to face. He
NAV shy at Andante Observation-Disclosures
when ne sees it on the half-sheet pos
ter in his hands. but he will decide that
it not so worse when he hears it. An
other thing Mr. Ysaye did: He dragged
the shout of a red-hot warrior, the
sweet voice Of a famous singer and the
squeak of a love-sick humning-bird out
of the same fiddle. The man may have
three chins and more Belgian hair than
he needs. but he is, to revert to the
language of lower Fourth street, there
with the Jimpson-
able name. Vfve la Ysaye He who
pokes a fiddle in the Stats with a stick
and makes it talk not like the fiddle
comedian of the vaudeville circuit, who
thinks he had done something when ne
makes his fiddle drawl "Ma-ri-ar-r-T'