Volume 147 — SOUND AND FURY.
Reading edition
A double Dutch Agency circulates a report of a great patriotic concert recently held in Berlin. The programme, which is printed on a mere scrap of paper, was as follows:—
A GRAND PRUSSIAN PATRIOTIC CONCERT In Aid of the German Government War Fund Will be held in the Dismantled British Embassy.
Programme. I. Selection: "Hail, Smiling Marne." Band of the Imperial Prussian Guard. II. Song: "Father, dear Father, come Home with me now." Words and music by the German Crown Prince. III. Banjo Recital: "The Sally of our Ally." Words and music by the Emperor Francis Joseph. IV. Chorus: "Forty Years On." Setting arranged by Count Von Moltke the Second. V. Song: "Oft in the Stilly Night." Words and music by Count Zeppelin, composer of "What does little Birdie say?" VI. Recital: "The Blue Carpathian Mountains." The Viennese Orchestra. VII. Humorous Song: "The Bonny Bonny Banks." Arranged by the Imperial Minister of Finance. VIII. Song: "And Nobody cares for Me!" Respectfully dedicated to the German Emperor. IX. Grand Patriotic Chorus (in which the audience is requested to join): "Prussia Expects That Every Man This Day Will Grab His Booty."
"Great Scott! I must do something. Dashed if I don't get some more flags for the old jigger!"