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Updated: June 17, 2025
Fillmore Street, its low-browed shops dark, but with great arcs of white lights spanning the streets that ran east and west, long shafts of yellow light shining across the sidewalk from the restaurants, the candy stores and the nicolodeons where the pianola tinkled plaintively was thronged with saunterers. Alexina darted quick curious glances at them as she walked rapidly along.
"Nine dollars and seventy cents," said Joan of Arc's brother Bill; "the seventy cents is for the steak and the nine dollars will help some to pay for the Looey the Fifteenth furniture in the bridal chamber." "Save the money, John," whispered Peaches, "and we'll buy a pianola with it." "How about a sliver of roast beef with some simple vegetable," I said to the waiter.
He is a good fellow and one feels for him much at such a time it must be rather dreadful for him to be returning when he remembers that he was once practically one of the shore party.11 The pianola has been his special care, and it shows well that he should give so much pains in putting it right for us.
On the pianola, or what preceded it then as now the player provided his own rendering. But the Orpheus, the precursor also of types that have since been greatly perfected, was played by an electrical mechanism, and the audience was intended to listen to Chopin or Beethoven, to Schumann or Brahms, as interpreted by the famous players of the moment, without any intervening personality.
The great scheme for marginal indices would never be patented, the duets with the pianola would never be played again.
When their tired eyes had got accustomed to the mingled smoke and glare, the travellers could see that in the space beyond the card tables, in those back regions where the pianola reigned, there were several couples twirling about the clumsily-dressed miners pirouetting with an astonishing lightness on their moccasined feet. And women! White women!
She recalled the look of the beautiful old house, the sound of Tommy at the pianola, the splashing of the fountain, the sun-dial at which, in his boyish grief, he had knelt. And she had accepted his love, not because she loved him but because she hated her home and because, besides being sufficiently rich to satisfy her needs, he was nice and straight and kind.
She roused herself, after an instant's pause, to examine my furniture. "You have chintz curtains. I thought men were too feckless to have curtains without a woman. But, of course, your aunt did that! And a couch and a brass fender, and is that a pianola? That is your desk. I thought men's desks were always untidy, and covered with dust and tobacco ash."
THE PIANOLA: My girl's a Yorkshire girl. ZOE: Yorkshire through and through. Come on all! STEPHEN: Pas seul! All wheel whirl waltz twirl. Bloombella Kittylynch Florryzoe jujuby women. Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh. THE PIANOLA: Though she's a factory lass And wears no fancy clothes. TUTTI: Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!
Lady Blemley's house-party was not bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, hence there was a full gathering of her guests round the tea-table on this particular afternoon. And, in spite of the blankness of the season and the triteness of the occasion, there was no trace in the company of that fatigued restlessness which means a dread of the pianola and a subdued hankering for auction bridge.
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