Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-28
Drawing by Robert Edwards

For finding this boy Fatty Miller had always claimed
credit In motion picture theater one day Fatty saw
several persons of many occupations chasing man with
ladder which spilled everything in its way
Finally pursuers splashed after the pursued into lake
All drpped shore to see the floating the
ladder toward the other SIDE waving derisive goodby
Then the clicking at the of the hall ceased.
of light broadened over the seats, and the curtain
shone these words:
3She Loved Him; but She Left Him with His
Mother"
In silent contempt Fatty listened while considerable
vocal sentiment forced through the singers
The contempt melted at the second chorus,
when the tenor invited everybody to do
what he had been trying to do.
Everybody tried Fatty sang the fearful "a
tune with all the confidence of the choir boy Fl
who has arrived and doesn't want anyone asiA1
to forget it. In the middle of the chorus he sFEs
stopped. All around him the soul of the s5HE
audience struggling for expression. Yet HMN
through all that whistling and whining Fatty ys&
heard only boy just back of him. The boy N
singing. ~
Some impresarios discover great singers in 7tA|
the streets, in the mines, in musical
comedy. ImpT -sario Fatty Miller found ~
the Songbird of Saint Pauls in motion ~
picture audience singing
@She Loved Him. but She Left Him
with His Mother
The boy in1presario always leads his find
into the choir room early rehearsal night.
The candidate must not be embarrassed by
five rows of craning necks and critical faces.
Only the choirnaster and the sexton
present when Fatty pulled Roxy into the
Heres the kid told you about. He sing, all
right; but he don't want to-"
This did not to surprise the master Fatty him
self the only boy he had known to want to-
but Fatty was optimist.
Evidently the new boy not. lingering his cap
as self-conscious twirs his mustache, he
footed it between the masters smiling face and Fattys
formidable form the door. All retreat cut off.
The songbird was caught in the net!
But the choirmaster had way with him. Soon
Roxy, encouraged also by Fattys @Aw gwans, sided
toward the piano and began to emit 3Ahs' and 3Ohs"
and 4Oos. Fatty assumed expression of pent-up l.
toldyouso The master nodded his head at every note.
He has been nodding his head since So has the
senior warden whose daughter studied music in Boston.
So has the junior warden who played the photograph
less before he took the fertilizer business and
then married the owners daughter So has the richest
man in the congregation. These men comprised the
church music committee. Therefore they knew when
to nod their heads.
The sexton, away out in the chapel, nodded his head
that night too; but he critic He kept the fires
and swept the asles So he told anyone but his
wife (who rather believed in him despite his postion)
that Rozzys voice better than any Saint Paul's
had heard, before the days Of the organ motor.
THE first time Roxy sang in church they made him
lead the procession. That was the penalty for be-
ing small He started with confidence born of marching
to ten-cent drum But stepping along in skirts, with
hymnbook hiding the view of his feet and church
full of people watching to him stub his toe,
factor that his prospectus, Fatty Miller, had ignored
And yet he kept fair me not forgetting to sing until
he started the steps to the stalls Then his right foot
hooked in between the two bottom buttons his
SOCK but he clutched at flower pot and righted him
self before the rest of the procession stepped him.
That the only shap of his choir Nothing
even marred his first solo, 1t only two lines of
aone Sweetly Solemn Thought yet he told Fatty he
glad he hadn't choked.
After that they used to crowd Saint Paus to hear