The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
MAN SANG FOR TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS Roared American Revival
 Song THEN HE PAINTED
HE PAINTED
THEN
When He Recovered Half Day After ward He Couldn't Remember Any thing About Giving Longest
 Vocal Recital on Record

Glasgow, November 2.-(SpeciaL)-A | gus Melee is laid up. He is suffering
 from the effects of over-singing, and will
 have to .bide a wee in the infirmary of the Ayrshire county prison, of which 1 institution he is at present an involun tary resident. Angus has that tired feel 1 ing of an acute form, and no wonder considering that for two days and two nights after entertaining the hospitable
 portals of the county jail last Saturday he lifted up his voice in song without
 stopping except to take breath and with
 out touching any kind of refreshments.
 either of solid or a liquid nature. l During most of this time Angus was
 rendering the famous Glory Song" that Messrs. Torney and Alexander the American evangelists, are responsible
 for bringing to this country, which has done nothing to deserve it. The prison
 authorities who did everything in their power, short of gagging Melee, to bring i his vocal recital to . cIose, regard his l performance as record, and the Scot
 might be expected when he emerges
 from "quod," which will be about the | CTS to a vocal endurance contest were
 1t not for the extremely bad effect that
 his prolonged solo has had upon him. l Meanwhile the authorities are believed 1 to be attempting to keep the episode from reaching the ears of the leaders
 of the suffragette movement for hard
 as the famous hunger strikes inau- surated by imprisoned militants have
 proved to cope with, the bare ldea ot a | continuous concert by a prlEJn 1ull O. women is enough to make the stoutest l official heart quail.
 Sang Until He Collapsed l Angus Melee dld not bring his non | stop concert to an end of his own ac- | cord. He sang until he collapsed. and was found unconscious on the floor of
 nis cell. This is not the first time that he has partaken of the hospitality of his majesty's prison at Ayr, but it's the | first time he ever has been known to
 sing-to say nothing of going on singing | for forty-eight hours-while within its walls. This time Melee is in duranee | for failing to comply strictly with the | eighth commandment and he rendered the first item on his lengthy vocal pro- gramme while en route for the local | house of correction in the official vehi- 1, cle which is technically known as d l Black Maria
 Tue police constable on the steps of
 that conveyance smiled when he heard | one of his passengers suddenly break | into Harry Lauders world renowned
 ditty, T Love a Lassie, and when the l van pulled up at the jail a few minutes
 later he discovered that the singer was Angus McFee who by this time, how ever, had deserted Lauder in favor of | Burns, and was singing The Banks 1 and Braes O Bonnie Doom" with all the | strength of an extremely powerful pair
 of lungs. rf
 In vain was he ordered to give over and come ava, oot" He merely | switched off The Banks and Braess and turned on the famous Glory Song"
 of Torrey and Alexander, and failed to l budge until two wardens went into the | van and dragged him out in the direc- | ton of his cell On the way to it he hardly missed a note of 70, that will | be glory for me- and when a warder l visited him an hour later he was still 1 singing of a blissful future state with | his eyes rivited on the ceiling and his
 hand beating time to the music When | warned that he would be punished if he | failed to subside forthwith, McFee sang louder, if possible, than he had done before.
 | This was about 2:S0 in the afternoon, and the governor of the prison, who had I | the human gramophone opined that when Melee got hungry he would ease
 up and peck a bit. When tea time came, 1 however, the prisoner declined to touch i food. He preferred to sing By this | time he had sung the Glory Song | about a hundred times and was still
 going strong. The enoless concert, how | ever. was beginning 10 on the
 nerves and tempers or the other hard
 cases in McFees neighborhood, and the
 prison doctor ordered the vocalist to be shunted to another part of the prison. | On the way Melee sang the Glory Song" with as much energy as If he | had just started on 1t, and when he got in his new quarters made the prison ring with it.
 Couldn't Hear Medical Man | Then another doctor had look at him, and suggested to him that it was l about time to sing God Save the King and quit. but Apparently Melee couldn't see or hear the medical man, and he
 went on singing a if his life depended
 upon it. Only the fact that he had Ut
 ul at the noted before, as it were, and
 never had given any trouble saved him l from being sternly dealt with; but in view of this the doctors agreed to put | him in a cell as far apart from the others
 as possible, and let him sing until he 1 got tired. This was done. and wardec was put on guard for the night. All through it McFee sang the Glory Song
 with zest that would have enraptured 1 it's American authors. and he went on 1 singing it all the next day and night. 1 1t was about breakfast time on the
 third day that the warder, looking in 10 see if McFec had eaten anything. found l him unconscious e. ae floor of his cell.
 He slept for twelvs hours and woke re- 1 freshed but feeble When they asked | him why he had sung so hard he denied l that he had warbled as much as note,
 and obviously had forgotten the whole | business. He says the last thing he | remembers is being inside the van, and 1 declares that when he came to he sun posed he had tainted. The doctors put 1 his performance down to some form of
 religious hysteria, but say they never k,iew case that took just that way.