Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05
Odd Things
ThdtMuSiCD0eS
Animals
ffk AUsIc Hath Charms to soothe the Savage
~ Breast" sang the poet and that doesn't mean
fVt only wild-eyed human beings but animals ano

~ only wild-eyed human beings but animals and
birds we'll
22year-old Brazilian parrot the proud possession Of
Columbia South Carolina prefers
when is tuned to such program the taka-
bird picks up her favorite arias like diva She knows
according the of nine different music
dramas for relaxation the gayy plumed pet sings
Deep in the Heart of Texas and 1t Amt Gonna Rain
No More"
Snakes too like it classical Miss Lyndall HendricE
Sydney Australia discovered to her great sorrow
Miss Hendrickson, vioinst of great talent enter
tanning friends home Whyalla. The head of the
who kept large python his store adjoining his
probably to keep away rats CHANGED to have his
pet in the room, showing it off
When the violinst began to play the python lay quiet
under the spell of the beautiful music and all that
evening it followed the visitor around the house making
great TODD her a snake can Finally the
leave and the musician started off in her
car She had reached Augusta 20 miles away.
happened TO look behind the back seat There
lay big python cudded contentedy against her violin
When the artist recovered from her astonishment
the around and stepped the until she
again front of her friends door where she gratefully
returned the pet
There wasn't anything particularly strange about the
python's love music anyone knows who has seen
Oriental snake charmers their stuff India is full of
fairs who make profession of first putting the
reptile under their spell and then while wailing on
reed flute getting the snake sway right strike,
retire and dance" according to the mood of the
charmer.
sponsve their cousins of the West but
there is one exception the Silver racer which
mostly California the middle western states
and has a musical to speak, but only for the
twanging rhythm of a jewsharp. AS long as player
any kind of vibrating harmony the simple
the stream-lined reptile will approach within
few the player keeping his beady fixed
intently the But the instant the vibrating
hum ceases the snake quick as flash,
mind changes quickly again If the player back
his instrument and before long the ghtcoloed reptile
again be- speak hanging the harsh sounds
Jane, a cat belonging TO Jesse StrinGcr of Detroit
Michigan viii do strange things when she hears piano
Wherever Jane may be down in the cellar out
the yard let anyone sit down to the piano and the cat
a changed feline. She bounding for the room
where the instrument is and between her and
the music she'll scratch frantcaly until she is
Then leaps for the piano and tries after the
New Zealand aborgine 10 rub noses with the
player Failing that she will listen conenedy to the
music for hours end
Dogs too not only like music recognize the voice
Of singer Take the Of TrNe This pet fox terrier
Of Mir and Mrs Morris Jacobs of Buffalo, New York
turned up missing weeks the distracted
looked high and low for their little pct Then one
evening the Jacobs were IN tavern where Mrs Jacobs
singing popular song There scratching at
me front door and q waitress opcncd IT, A tired and
bedraggled little dog rushed and lcapcd up into Mrs
Jacobs arms ecSld'let'E lchlE ' lace anu I'''S LAY
yith 10Y finding beloved mistress again She had
iocogulzed the the singer a song she knew.
one Of Mozarts bograrhers mentions tame pigeon
tho pet Of that extraordinary when he was
child When the bird at liberty IT would never leave
the Of the young composer If he playing any
musical instrument And not put back in its
cage when he finished the pigeon would follow the boy
am over the hous, Whenever Mozart entered the room
the bird uneasy until the young genius down
o. play. Then The cage door opened, II would fly
60 the peck The strings the harpschord
where II would jump nuttcr all the keys. not
stopping until the youthful musician began TO coax sooth-
ing melodies from either instrument
Jackie Jon that starred in many Hollywood
movie sent farther He learned tocrcona waverng
fit recognizable tenor anyone played The
tonkeys tho other hand Jtterhuegcd at scientific
session for animals al the Philadelphia loo a Jazz
bana played and then hot The smiaus
stood UP and uggcd when the rhythm got snarTy