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...concert will include performances by the vocal, banjo, and mandolin, clubs, and the Gold Coast Orchestra, as well as several speciality acts. It will be the first of two successive appearances in as many days for the clubs, which will also entertain in its annual concert at the Milton Club tomorrow evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS WILL PLAY FOR MASONS | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

...post of publicity director is to be filled by George H. A. Clowes '37. James A. Ford '37 was chosen as Leader of the Vocal Club. Joseph W. Valentine '38 and Gilbert E. Jones were selected to lead the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Instrumental Clubs Hold Annual Election of Officers | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

First a Girl (Gaumont British) presents Jessie Matthews of the pretty legs, drooping mouth and banjo eyes, pretending to be a girl impersonating a man impersonating a girl. In performing this feat she is abetted by her real-life husband, Sonnie Hale. When the two first meet, she is a couturiere's stage-struck messenger girl, he a music hall female impersonator. He catches cold, loses his voice, induces her to take his place. She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient. Offstage she wears gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Signor Emanuel was soon out, good-humoredly twitting U. S. and British correspondents in Rome about the jitters into which his detention for 52 days had thrown them. He scoffed the story that Il Duce had taken offense because of rumors that Signor Emanuel had referred to him as "Banjo-Eyes." Describing himself as "a man who, whatever be his faults, has a good liver and a smiling character," irrepressible Guglielmo Emanuel flatly denied ever having called anybody banjo-eyed and vowed he had never before heard the expression. "My Scotch terrier Banjo," he said, "has very-beautiful and tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Power of Hearst | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...program for these concerts is as follows: BANJO CLUB Washington Post March Sousa VOCAL CLUB What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor Sea Chanty Fireflies Russian Folk Song The Pope Unicyclist Henry S. Stone '38 Chicago Quartet Edward L. Barnes '38, Ralph Hamill '38, Joseph W. Valentine '38, Lee H. Wendell '38 MANDOLIN CLUB To a Wild Rose MacDowell Serenata Toscelli Song of the Volga Boatmen (with the Vocal Club) Russian Folk Song BANJO CLUB Twelfth Street Rag Bowman Margie Conrad and Robinson Jugglers John C. Develin '38, Whiting L. Brewer '37 Magician Edward L. Barnes '38 Football Medley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS START WINTER SEASON | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

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