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...Vocal, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. Although no final decision has been made yet as to what the selections are that the Mandolin Club will play, it is understood that their program will include the waitz "Destinie", "Jalousie", and the "Polish Dance." The Banjo Club will render "The Twelfth Street Rag", "Under the Double Eagle," and "At a Georgia Camp Meeting...
...Banjo Club, under the direction of J. M. Bradley '33, will play the "Twelfth Street Rag," "Under the Double Eagle," and "At a Georgia Camp Meeting." The Vocal Club, under the leadership of S. H. Stackpole '33, will present "Going Home," "Johnny Harvard," "Old Heidelberg," and the finale from the operetta "The Gondoliers." The Gold Coast Orchestra with J. L. Hutter '33 leading will play a Victor Herbert medley, a medley from "Show Boat" and "Mood Indigo" and "Black and Tan Fantasy." This orchestra will play for dancing afterwards. The Mandolin Club will also play and present specialty numbers...
...milestone last week was the I. C. C.'s approval, with modifications of the Big Four's own program. In its 1929 plan the I. C. C. had ordered a fifth East ern system to be composed of the Wabash, the Seaboard Air Line and a rag-tag-bobtail lot of small lines. Because no body advocated such a fifth trunk line, because both Wabash and Seaboard are in receivership, the I. C. C. dropped the idea and consented to a four-way division. The Seaboard was left to the South, the other lines were parcelled out among...
Towering several inches above him, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam danced with Edward of Wales at the Derby Ball in Grosvenor House, London. After playing "Home" and "Day by Day," the orchestra burst into "Tiger Rag," a fast foxtrot, then stopped. Leaving the floor H. R. H. was heard to grumble: "We need more like that." Obediently the orchestra struck up again "Tiger Rag" and H. R. H. speedily led Mrs. Putnam back to the floor for another dance. When finally an announcer asked that the guests leave the ballroom for supper, H. R. H. remarked to his partner: "That...
Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...