Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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?...
...other officers who will enter on their duties at the same time under this new arrangement are: R. G. Edwards '31, vice president: J. R. Frothingham '33, secretary: R. R. Hildreth '31, librarian: A. H. Parker '32, leader of the Banjo Club: J. M. Bradly '33, leader of the Mandolin Club. Gade will serve also as leader of the Vocal Club...
...program for this evening is as follows: 1. Veritas March Dinsmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. DeW. Stetten Jr. '30, magician 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. J. S. B. Archer '30, Tenor Soloist 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange A Little Kiss Each Morning Woods Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Ein Karleksmatt 1 Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Harvard Club Special R. G. Edwards '31 and G. W. Briggs '31 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah...