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50,000 Philadelphia Boys Expected
to Participate in Harmonica Contest
Event Will Be One of the Leading Features of the Annual Boys' Week of the Quaker City-
Harmonica Band Appears in Contest in City's Leading Auditorium
PHILADELPHIA, PA., March 16.—It is ex-
pected that there will be 50,000 Philadelphia
boys playing the harmonica before the annual
Boys' Week activities are held in May, accord-
ing to the plans of Mayor Kendrick and the
Boy Council. This organization was formed
three years ago for the purpose of bringing all
boy work in Philadelphia under one head.
In order to crystallize the boy sentiment in
the city toward the playing of harmonicas the
Mayor and the Boy Council presented two re-
markable performances recently in the Metro-
politan Opera House, where the Boy Council
Harmonica Band, the Civic Junior Symphony
Orchestra and the Civic Junior Band gave an
afternoon and evening performance before
packed houses.
The leader of the young musicians was Albert
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Representing
N. Hoxie, vice-president of the Boy Council,
who will be remembered as the man who co-
operated with William J. Haussler, of M. Hoh-
ner, Inc., in the promotion of the famous Phila-
delphia harmonica contests of last year. The
playing of the harmonica band is best described
by one of the writers of the Philadelphia In-
quirer as follows:
"After a short interval the real mystery of
the evening was brought on the stage in the
form of the harmonica band. The audience
knew what a regular band and orchestra were,
but a harmonica band and one that proposed to
play from the sacred classics with instruments
that had only been meant for ragtime and the
popular songs was something else.
"Over a hundred boys wandered out before
the curtains, each with a smile and a mouth
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organ. A number of the expected things hap-
pened first in the way of getting acquainted
with the audience with the familiar national
songs. Then came the modern popular num-
bers, which Mr. Hoxie said were liked by the
Prince of Wales and played by the Americans.
Such things as "Doodle-Doo-Doo," "California,
Here I Come," and "What'll I Do," were played
by the youngsters and the audience swayed
with delight to their cadences. The real adven-
ture, according to Leader Hoxie, was the rendi-
tion of the largo movement from the New
World Symphony, with the harmonica band
playing in four-part harmony.
"This was a tremendous success and in the
words of Mayor Kendrick, who has sponsored
the entire junior musical movement and who
attended the performance, was 'the knockout of
the evening. 1 "
In a talk to the audience Mr. Hoxie explained
that there are now more than 40,000 young
harmonica enthusiasts in Philadelphia. He said
he believed that any boy could learn to make
music and like music if given an opportunity
to express himself musically. He said the in-
terest taken by boys all over the country in
the organization of harmonica bands proved
that the youngsters could be made to appre-
ciate music if properly trained. The idea is to
train the boys first in mastery of simple music
on the harmonica and then to lead them on to
the more serious work gradually, Mr. Hoxie
said.
The Mayor, who arrived just in time to hear
the harmonica band play, was greeted with the
cheers of the audience and said: "I am delighted
at this display of talent. I am proud of our
boys as Mayor of our city, and I am deeply in-
terested in the harmonica band because I was
a left-handed harmonica player myself when I
was a boy. In those days we did not get any
bouquets when we played a harmonica on the
street corner, but we were generally chased by
some policeman. You boys and girls live in a
fortunate time, for we have begun to realize that
the boys and girls are the future men and
women of America."
William Brenner Returns
William Brenner, member of the firm of
Gretsch & Brenner, Inc., New York, has re-
turned to his office after a business trip through
the larger cities of the central States. Mr. Bren-
ner returned with much encouragement over
prospects for good business during the balance
of the year and reported an unusually heavy
demand on the part of many of the larger
dealers, for imported merchandise.
Taylor Made Sales Manager
J. J. Taylor has been appointed sales manager
of the Waverly Musical Products Co., Inc.,
maker of hardware and accessories for the
stringed instrument trade, 342 Madison avenue,
New York, it was announced this week by H. C.
Lomb, general manager of the firm. Mr. Taylor
is well fitted for his new duties, having served
as assistant manager of Waverly sales for sev-
eral years, and knows the line of products thor-
oughly, being well known and liked in the trade.
Under the direction of Mr. Lomb, the Waverly
house has grown to be the largest distributor
of its line in the world.
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