On the Fourth of July I was playing in Melbourne in Exhibition Hall. I planned a programme that overflowed with American music, and tacked on the national anthem for good measure as a fitting wind-up. I had noticed a soldierly-looking man …

We played Ballarat and Adelaide, where an inquisitive reporter approached me with a copy of my programme in his hand and said: “From what I have heard of your organization, it is so splendidly equipped that I should think you would play on…

CHAPTER 14 WE SAIL IN 1910 ON A WORLD TOUR ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AFRICA AN AMERICAN KAFFIR IN KIMBERLEY JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA FAREWELL CONCERT TWENTY-TWO DAYS TO TASMANIA MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, ADELAIDE THE CRUEL HUNTSMAN I TALK SH…

Once more in America, I made a short tour of Virginia and Ohio and then went south for a long hunting trip and a well-earned rest. It was my custom every year to take a few weeks from my “musicking” to shoot quail and deer in North Carolin…

We left England and began playing the Nouveau Theatre in Paris. Among the various medleys which I had concocted and arranged for my band there appeared one that year called, “In the Realm of the Dance”, in which I had linked waltz themes w…