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...program is as follows: Washington Post March Sousa Wedding of the Birds arranged by Rice Banjo Club Chorus of Peers Gilbert and Sullivan Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club Novelty Saxophone Specialty Robert White '32 Marche Militaire Schubert Mandolin Club Legerdemain Specialty William S. Warner '32 Intermission Hittin' the Bottle Gorney-Arlen Can This be Love? (from the Warner Bros. picture "Life of the Party") Gold Coast Orchestra Specialty Lute Solos W. S. Georges '32 Two Guitars Horlick Espana Waltz Waldteufel Mandolin Club Two Grenadiers Schuman-Zeiner Sea Chanteys (arranged by Terry) Vocal Club Football Medley (arranged...
There are places in the banjo club for those who play chord and tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...
Students musically inclined will find an outlet for their ambition in any one or more of several organizations. There are the Glee Club, the University Instrumental Clubs, and the Pierian Sodality; also, later in the year, the Freshman Class organizes its own Instrumental Club, divided into mandolin, banjo, band, and specialty groups. The University band, which plays at the football games, holds tryouts for candidates...
When Joe Cook (born Lopez) was 8 he organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...