Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...
...designed by G. H. Perkins '26 will be erected in front of the old Freshman Gymnasium and an amplifying system installed so that the music may be heard in all parts of the triangle. The numbers to be rendered by the Instrumental Clubs include presentations by the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, and specialty pieces by an Hawaiian Guitar quartet, and a vocal trio with guitar accompaniment...
...selections rendered at all concerts will be: Banjo Club: "Campus Memories", "Clicquot", "American Patrol", and "Bullfrog Blues"; Mandolin Club: "Blue Kentuck Moon", "Dark Eyes", "Volga Boatman", and "Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan"; Vocal: "Gay Nineties Medley", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Bonnie Dundee", "Australia", and "Johnny Harvard". Three presentations will be made in the way of special numbers; a violin solo, a guitar quartet, and a magician...
There are to be five separate clubs working together and giving joint presentations, the Banjo, Mandolin, Vocal, and 1935 Gold Coast, as well as specialty acts. These specialty acts will consist of various musical presentations of a novel nature, prestidigitations, comic skits, and solos. At present the schedule is somewhat unsettled, but there will be about six appearances, one at the 1935 smoker, at the Freshman Jubilee, and a grand concert at the Commodore Hotel at the end of the season in June. The other intermediate concerts are to be at various boys' and girls' boarding schools...
...Gold Coast Orchestra, the Mandolin Club, and the Pyhorrean Sorority Specialty were headliners of the program. At Detroit, first step on the itinerary, while the local Harvard Club was entertaining the club members in one room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Gold Coast and the Pyhorrean quartet were broadcasting from another room over a middlewestern hookup. The Mandolin Club, under the direction of E. H. Woodberry '32, pleased its audiences with a striking rendition of "Dark Eyes...