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...five clubs of the organization include the vocal club, the mandolin club, the banjo club, the specialty division, and the Gold Coast Orchestra. The vocal club specializes in singing college songs as well as selections from light operettas. The mandolin club and the banjo club use between them all string instruments, wood-winds, traps, and various brasses, and the specially division offers opportunities to all men with talent as ventriloquists, magicians, trap artists and one-man bands...
Alfredo Salmaggi is a long-haired Italian who wherever he goes carries a silver-topped cane which belonged to Caruso and loves to tell about the days when he taught Italy's Queen Margherita to play the mandolin. Salmaggi has an Aïda complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given...
Before 1917 the Glee Club and the Banjo and Mandolin Club had combined to form the Harvard Musical Clubs. They had been presenting programs of College songs and light folk songs but the alliance was broken in 1917 and Dr. Davison enlarged the repertoire of the club to its present form...
Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat plunking his mandolin in front of a music rack in his home. While a pot of spaghetti was bubbling in the kitchen, some unknown persons called. When they rose to go they filled Joe Roma with so many .38 and .45 slugs that the police could not count the holes...
...ballroom of the Commander Hotel the Instrumental Clubs will give their annual. Cambridge concert this evening. Selections by an improved Gold Coast Orchestra will feature the performance, while several numbers by the Mandolin, Banjo, and Vocal Clubs will complete the program. The Clubs have been working on a good many new pieces this fall and their repertoire has been increased to a large extent. After the performance there will be dancing in the ballroom, to the accompaniment of the Gold Coast Orchestra...