Whistling Vaudeville Perform Tells Benefits of Whistling

Indiana, 1906

Whistler Talks

Harry Antrim, who is doing a whistling stunt with Miss Yetta Peters at the Temple this week, has achieved quite a reputation in his line of work. Antrim is a clever imitator and his act gets him much applause. "I was fired from the Philadelphia Record for whistling and I have been whistling for a living ever since," he said this morning. Mr. Antrim claims that if there would be more people use whistling as an exercise there would be less consumption in the country. How many people are always complaining of their throat and lungs. And why? Because they are not properly developed. Take whistling for instance, just the ordinary scales, the kind you play on the piano. Instead of playing them whistle them just as low and as loud as you can and I am sure you will be benefited by it in a short time. It causes the chest to expand and materially develops the lungs."


At The Temple

This afternoon and evening — High-class vaudeville.

The matinee at the Temple this afternoon will begin at 2 o'clock in order to give the performers time for the special vaudeville performance that will be given at Robison park for the street car magnates.

—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sept. 27, 1906, p. 7.

Baby Whistling Fluently at 9 Months Old

1922

Whistles Fluently At Callow Age of 9 Months

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 26. — Claim is made that Mervin, nine-months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Heyman, of this city, "can whistle like a canary."

"He's been whistling since he was six months old," declared the proud father. "I'm sure he is the champion baby whistler of the world. Why, when that boy grows up he ought to be in great demand. Think what Mr. Sousa would give to have such a whistler in his band!"

—The Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, August 27, 1922, page 8.

Ghost is Whistler, Conductors Report

1920

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. -- Is Twin Peaks tunnel haunted?

"It is," aver several conductors on municipal railway cars. "The tunnel is haunted, and what is more, the ghost that dwells in the tunnel is a whistler of ability, tenacity and great lung power."

According to several car men whose runs take them through the tunnel, the tube has a ghost that whistles in an uncanny way. One conductor avers he saw the ghost -- in the shape of a man -- the other night and that the ghost disappeared in thin air, like sunsets do in moving pictures.

Those who don't believe in ghosts explain the weird whistling as being due to the rush of air around the speeding cars, the walls of the tunnel confining the air and making the "ghost music."

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 9.

Comment: I like the phrase: "disappeared in thin air, like sunsets do in moving pictures."