3 OCTOBER 1952, Page 16

i§pectator, October 2, 1852

Two well-dressed young men have been charged at Marylebone Police Office with drunkenness and injuring a badger in the Zoological Gardens by giving it gin. They went to the gardens drunk; and managed to throw gin into the mouths of several animals. It did not appear that the animals suffered from the trick, or that the men intended to hurt them; so the Magistrate merely fined One of the young men for drunkenness, and the other for assaulting a Policeman when taken into custody. * 4, At the St. James's Theatre, there has been during the week a band of musicians, who, under the name of " Organophonists," have brought to a considerable degree of perfection the art of imitating with voices alone a complete instrumental orchestra. They execute with much precision; and the devices by which they attain the peculiar sound of stringed and metallic instruments are highly ingenious, though not always conducive to personal beauty. The " Organophonic Band " has come hither at rather an unmusical season; but its stay in London will be short, and there is a prospect in the provinces, where the " extras" of art always find a ready reception when they come marked with the metropolitan stamp.