The evening world., 1912-08-13


Pity the hard lot Of Archer Gibson.
He gets $4,000 a year for lingering q
100000 organ an hour a day and rem
dering "Dearie" between the classical
thunderlnss and sroaninEs OF the costly
pipes. Also ne gets a summer home
you'd wish you owned 1t II you saw it,
and a nice. comfortable automobile.
Archer works at the above mentioned
laborlous task to delight tho musical
soul OF Henry Clay Prick. multi-m!ilion-
aire Pittsburgh steel magnate, whose
summer homo IL at Prids's Crossing.
near Beverly Farms, Mass. Every day
AT r. NJ. the phone rings In the Gibson
house and the organist motors over 90
the Frick mansion. There in the music
hall. the silent. grur money giant sits
waiting for his daily music. While the
nimble fingers OF Orsanist Gsoson rip out
peal after peal OF stun that dead men
wrote--the kind that no ono could see
any merit In while the composer was
strong fingers Joined. listens In silence.
After q particularly weird succession OF
crashes and thunders from tho costly
organ the miilionaire's countcnance
loses It's former expression Of wrapt In
terest lie leans forward uneasiiy "a
the music bursts In q glorious finishing
flare.
Play Dearie'w he commands.
Then the 100000 organ sends forth the
strains OF that popular ballad, ladies'
and gentlemen" strains that the COM
mon instalment. go-as-you-please house
piano used to know before everybody
began doing a."
WHAT THE NEIoHsoRs THINK
AND SAY.
Usually q few repetitions OF the above
ballad are enough TO allow fresh
start on the previous heavy stuff And
90 the hour Of music passes. There are
some along the North Shore who are
mean enough to say that the owner OF
the organ hasn't the soul for the com
positions" They hint that the big Frtck
organ was installed ''just because Andy
had one put In" Andy being the Laird
OF Skibo who sort OF set the pace a. II
we're for the bunch from Fittsburs.
And again some say the music hour II
. relief space. . safety valve In tho
present troublesome thoughts Of Mr..
Frick. who n getting ready for his
'Biliion Dollar Lawn Party next FIJI
day evening. when the aristocracy OF
Massachusetts Is invited and the prin-
opal interest centers In seeing who Will
come. But that II neither here nor there
| 1t IN OF Archer Gibson and his hard lot
| the story would treat
When young Mr.. Gibson left Basti-
more. friends warned him his talent
would lead into thorny paths. lie
had become one OF the greatest.
II not the greatest orgsnist In
America. His future was bright and
he might have labored on for the sake
Of Art Hs might have called down
maledictions on the unapprecisuve
public and turned his collars the second
day. He would surely have been recog-
nixed within q year after his death.
But young Mr.. Gibson determined TO
get his'n this side OF the River styx'
50 he began TO be friendly with million
aires. He played the organ In the homes
Of Charles II. schwab. w, X. Wander
b,lt jr.. Harry Payne Whitney and the
rest, and was called the "Billion Dollar
Organist" And see what II has brought
him 20. Not content with working an
hour . day he has composed an opera
A striking example Of what genius VIII
DO under difficulties.
And, as they say in the classics. IT II
some opera" The title 10 ''Ysdra." He
played parts Of II over for an Evening
World reporter who called at his sum
mer homo yesterday. and although thu
reporter doesn't know q thing abou
music from a technical standpoint, HI
found himself trying to remember
snatches Of melody that had the fine
something that went right out straigh
and took hold. A music critic eoul'
explain. Gibson says IT'S due to In
spiration In the form Of his charming
wife. who criticises his work.
But about YEdra She 10 q young lady
a princess, to be exact, and extremel!
beyootlful. Her father Is a Hindu rule
who takes a lot OF stock In the oracle o
something or other which predicts dis
aster from a great conqueror. This hap
pens about the time the princess 10 emit
ting her hrst iusty yells. and the kin
for the conQueror.
FED HER ON POISON so As II
KILL ANY WHO KISSED HER.
So they fed her on-what do 20