Evening star., 1944-01-20
This and That
By Charles E. TraceueU.

iooAiis anu cdtaloglng are difficult.
Iempleton Jones found this out when
ne began to put into some logical order
the hundreds of albums and thousands
OF records in his home music library.
ihere are many ways of doing this
ana all OF them require patience. Now
patience Is one quality which Mr.. Jones
lacks. His wife says that all men lack
it.
Jones has his record library neatly
disposed in albums and mahogany cases.
MOST OF them are in the dining room.
Where the phonograph is Really, it is
the music room, and almost the living
room, as in many households.
1t overlooks the garden, where. in
spring and summer, the wild creatures
dlsport, including birds, dogs cats, squir-
rels, rabbits, and upon one memorable
tve star morning. raccoon.
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1t was missing record which turned
Templeton Jones mind to the need of
real record index
This particular record was "lost," that
Is, it could not be found by Jones, him
self
He knew 1t was in the house, but no
one had seen 1t for two years.
And 1t was one Of the Jonesian favor
ties. Now you might think that a Jones
1aVorlte could be nothing less than a
symphony, or a string quartet, or a
piano concerto, at the least, but right
there you would be mistaken, for Tenn
pleton Jones has most catholic taste
in music.
Nothing is too large or too small. in
a musical sense, to please him, so long
as it is sincere.
mat is why, on the Jones record
shelves. visitor will find the music
from "Oklahoma" placed right alongside
Beethoven.
The missing record was, of all things,
two fragile march tunes, Mickey
Mouse's Birthday Party" on one side
and Peters Pop Keeps Lollapop
Shop" on the other.
1t has been a habit of Jones for
many years to play such a record be-
tween the movements of a symphony
Lest a symphony lover shiver, Jones
advises him to try it, sometime.
Put in good rumba, for instance.
between movements, and add little
comic relief to the undoubtedly great
D.
The masters, above ALL would love 1t.
Jones feels sure OF that.
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1t was small misfortune, he felt,
That he could not place his hands on
the slight march songs.
They were both good tunes, and some
how seemed to make a perfect foil, to
the works of Beethoven, Brahms, NAH
Ter, Bruckner, and many another COM
poser OF immortal symphonies.
Jones had taken it out of an album
OF miscellaneous records two years ago.
and had intended to put it into another
album.
Somehow he did not do So
just what he did do with the record
he could not now recall. That was the
trouble
No one could locate it,
The index was not in good shape.
Some records had been given away,
with no record kept Of them.
4 X 4
The search for that one record had
gone on perennially
No stone was left unturned, as one
might say, but to no avail
Yet Jones was sure it was somewhere
not too far away.
One day not long ago he asked Mrs.
Jones to find a place for a new album.
(Beethoven's "Consecration of the
House.D
There is no place to put it," said
Mrs. Jones, unless I take out five of
these loose records in the green en-
velopes."
So saying, she pulled out the five, and
handed them over, in their jackets, to
Templeton Jones.
He glanced down at the record on top.
Then he laughed with pleasure.
did you see the title of this record?"
he asked. Read It," he commanded,
holding it out.
Mickey Mouse's Birthday-well, of
all things!" chortled Mrs. Jones.
"And Peters Pop Keeps a Lollapop
Shop too," exclaimed Jones as pleased
! as If 1t had been q symphony.