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There are to be five separate clubs working together and giving joint presentations, the Banjo, Mandolin, Vocal, and 1935 Gold Coast, as well as specialty acts. These specialty acts will consist of various musical presentations of a novel nature, prestidigitations, comic skits, and solos. At present the schedule is somewhat unsettled, but there will be about six appearances, one at the 1935 smoker, at the Freshman Jubilee, and a grand concert at the Commodore Hotel at the end of the season in June. The other intermediate concerts are to be at various boys' and girls' boarding schools...
Other elected officers for next year are: W. McM. Heyl '33, treasurer; Heywood Fox '33, manager; and R. F. Barker '35, assistant manager. Leaders of other departments include: G. S. Hayes '34, Vocal Club; J. M. Bradley '34, Banjo Club; J. S. Hunter 1G.B., Gold Coast Orchestra; and Lloyd Brown '34, librarian...
...Banjo Club, which has greatly increased in size this year, will start the musical entertainment rendering "American Patrol' by Meacham and "Cliquot" by Resuer. This will be followed by a guitar quarter, and by a burlesque called "The Gay Nineties." The Gold Coast Orchestra will then render two popular pieces and a Russian song arranged by Pollack. This band will also furnish the music for the dancing after wants. Ellery Sedgwick '32 will then give an exhibition of magic. All unusually large group of maudolin players will then give excerpts from Sullivan's operatic music. "The Volga Boatmen," and "Dark...
Travelling west this year on their annual Christmas trip the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will play at Detroit and Chicago. On the return journey concerts will be given at Winnetka, Illinois; Albany, New York; and at the Westchester Country Club, Rye, New York. The combined organization, consisting of the separate Banjo, Mandolin, and Vocal Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the special feature men, will leave Boston on the evening of Christmas...
...meeting last night at Phillips Brooks House the elected members of the University Instrumental Clubs selected the following men to complete the list of officers for the coming year; vice-president, G. S. Hayes '34, of Andover; treasurer, W. M. Heyl '33, of Philadelphia; leader of the Banjo Club, F. F. Cary '34, of New Canaan, Connecticut; and librarian, Lincoln Bryant, Jr. '33, of Milton...