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...Book gave him a manuscript to illustrate. He went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. His fame grew. His prices went up. He drew advertisements, married, rented a studio on West 57th St. with two skylights. For relaxation he played the victrola and practiced on the cornet. In 1923 he gave a series of lectures at the League on magazine illustrating. He has drawn pictures for The Desert Healer by E. M. Hull, Find the Woman by Arthur Somers Roche, The Torrent by Blasco...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
Freshmen and graduate students who play the clarinet, cornet, piccolo, and flute are especially needed. Instruments will be loaned to anyone upon application to the management...
...band will be assisted this afternoon by Miss Marjorie Moody, soprano; Mr. John Dolan, cornet, and Mr. George Carey, xylophone. Following is the program, which contains a wide range of pieces from classical music to jazz: 1. Gaelic Fantasy, "Armrain No N-Gaedeal" (New), O'Donnell The Band 2. Cornet Solo, "The Carnival" Arban Mr. John Dolan 3. Suite, "Cuba under Three Flags" (New) Sousa a. Under the Spanish. b. Under the American. c. Under the Cuban. The Band 4. Soprano Solo, "I am Titania," from "Mignon," Thomas Miss Marjorie Moody 5. a. Love Scene from "Feuersnoth" R. Strauss...