POSED AS BEGGAR
CULTURED VIOLINIST GETS MEAGRE RESPONSE ACID TEST OF PUBLIC TASTE CHICAGO, Tuesday. Jacques Gordon, a famous violinist, hid behind the tatters and smoked glasses of a blind pauper on a street corner in Chicago, and with his cultured bow wheedled exactly £1 3s 3d out of his casual and unsuspecting audience. Mr. Gordon undertook his beggar’s role in order to decide a dispute as to whether the public appreciates music for itself or is attracted by the magnetism of society audiences and the fame of artists.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 11
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89POSED AS BEGGAR Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 11
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