Hyder weekly herald., 1932-02-20
HIS COMPENSATION
 A The Story of q Music Master
By FANNIE HURST
(G by Mcclure Newspaper syndicateo
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 ing; hundreds of the more as tute had seen it in the offing for years, before it actually happened, and in many instances had run for the cover of kindred professions or occu- pations.
 Klinger, however. had stuck, as the saying goes, like captain to sink ing ship, until the inundation or teamed music" was something that even his stubborn kind of resistance had to reckon with.
 No doubt about 1t, the day Of the theater and moving picture orchestra was gone. A man had not chance to earn any sort of decent living for himself and family. if he depended upon q profession that had literally died in its tracks.
 In vain the perlshing vocation fought for It's life. An organization was formed, of which Kllnger was vice president, to combat, by news paper and magazine advertising, this demise of an honorable profession. DO NOT PERMIT CANNED MUSIC
 TO BE SERVED UP TO YOU.
 THE BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD. PUBLIC, DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS!
 Of course the public did nothing of the sort, the ound-screen became It's own orchestral effect, 0rchestras died out of the theater, and at f1fty-seven, Otto Klinger, for thirty years director nf nrnhoSfrO n Df tho nifV'S largest temples of entertainment, found himself, incredible as It might seem, out of job.
 There was the alternative, desper- ately clutched by so many of his men, of rushing to the picture studios of California, but--eyen had such an op- tportunity presented itself, Klinger was not the man to subject his dignity to any such tiagellatiOn as that.
 Playing on a motion picture lot! Otto klinger, graduate of Berlin con- seryatory of music. one-time concert melster of a Nurnberg orchestra and HOW, for thirty years. director of an aggregation of thirty men, going Holly wood. Never!
 = Fortunately 1t was at time of his life when his family, containing grown sons and daughters, had agreed among themselves. it was best for him to retire.
 Rearing three girls and three boys on scale of decent and substantial living had, of course, not enabled Otto to accumulate, but when the catastrophe of the dissolution of his orchestra came along. there were for tunately, three out of hls six chill dren who were earning. Firmin and Max. the two elder boys. steady and showing the results of the spartan rearing that had been theirs, were both draughtsmen drawing substan- :. tial wage. Mathilde, the third, daugh- ter, stald, careful, uncOquettish girl, who so far us the modern fiapper was concerned. did not exist at all, was confidential secretary to the German consul
 So, all In All, while in the heart of Otto calamity had descended, his fam fly. including his wife, was of an opinion, secret from him. that consid- erlng his age and gouty constitution, 1t was just as well for him to retire.
 The Ringers owned their little home on the outskirts of New York. There were only three children left at school age. Mrs. Klinger, twen- ty years younger than her husband, and Of firm heroic build. was house. wife of impeccable and amazing ca pacity for economy.
 The Ringers could make out all right.
 But the effect upon the morale of Klinger was what troubled them. Prepared as the family was for the let-down that inevitably must take place In the somewhat Bsmarkian figure of their father, who for thirty years had ruled thirty men, to say nothing of household, the actual happening was nothing short of ap- palling.
 He became household tyrant, dom- ineering over the daily routine, inter- fering in his wife's capable regime, exercising even more discipline with his children.
 There came time, in that little home. when so far as the members of it were concerned, the idea of sending Otto of to private hospital at some quiet seaside resort actually began to present itself.
 That project never took form. The Ringers were too compact a group for that: too grounded in certain rudl- ments of family soIidity. but it does go to show the extremes to which they were pushed. by the overflow of their fathers chagrin into the household
 Then Bertha. the fourth child, hit on a. scheme that, while It was to in- crease the household tyranny in many ways. was nothing short of stroke-of. genius.
 Secretly, so that not even his wife or children knew it, there had always smoldered in Otto bitter disappoint- nanf that mi nua nf hto ohiilrax, had