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...made of the Instrumental Clubs trials, starting Monday and Tuesday at 6.45 o'clock in the Music Building. These trials will be open to all members of the University who play any kind of musical instrument or can in anyway entertain. The club consists of five units which are: Banjo Club, Mandolin Club; Vocal Club, Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty Division, including vocal or instrumental soloists and prestidigatators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GATES DEMANDS WORK OF THE INSTRUMENTALISTS | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...audience laughs at a burlesque of the unctuous radio announcer. Of the songs, all donated by their authors, four promise to be hits. Prolific Irving Berlin con tributes "Begging for Love." Others acclaimed with spirit: "I'm Just a Doorstep Baby," "Hot Moonlight," "My Heart's a Banjo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Wanted?To trade mandolin-banjo for E flat saxophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Clubless Vaudevillians | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...program on Saturday night will be started off by the Banjo Club, which will play the "Wedding of the Birds", and "Dancing Shadows". This group will be followed by the Vocal Club, which has prepared the "Winter Song", and "Old Man Noah" for the occasion. Among the specialities in this year's club is R. B. Carleton '34, who plays xylophone solos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 INSTRUMENTALISTS GIVE CONCERT SATURDAY | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

...week for a share of the Wendel estate. Buxom, 46-year-old Mrs. Hayward keeps house for a 76-year-old retired detective, Capt. Theodore Lawton, on his ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died in 1914). Mrs. Hayward claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Rich Dog | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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