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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 7, 1928
Helped Make Her a
Feature in Vaudeville
BOSTON, MASS., January 3.—There's a girl often
heard on the Keith circuit who has a big future;
in fact so has her companion, for the team
known as "Booth and Nina" has frequently ap-
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Carlinville School Harmonica Band
Scores Success in Series of Concerts
Organized in December, 1926, It Made Its First Public Appearance in February, 1927,
and Since Then Has Grown Steadily in Popularity
E Carlinville School has a band of Har-
T H monica
enthusiasts and music lovers in
general which was organized in December, 1926.
From the first rehearsal this young group has
Its progress is remarkable, and is reflecting
much credit upon itself and its director, Miss
Sadie E. Brown. So much interest has been
aroused by the artistic work of those young
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Carlinville
Nina
pcared to great advantage all over the country.
It is Nina to whom we wish to call especial at-
tention, for she is the possessor of an excep-
tionally attractive Vegaphone banjo; in fact she
has always used a Vegaphone from the time
she and her partner began to entertain audi-
ences.
School
Harmonica
Band
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manifested much enthusiasm and a keen interest
at all limes. These pupils have come from the
intermediate grades, junior high and high
school, the greater percentage coming from the
sixth and seventh grades. In February, 1927,
they made their first public appearance to an
audience of nearly a thousand people and so
heartily were they received that they were
forced to appear the following evening to a
packed house, and many were turned away.
On March 25, 1927, this band gave a very
excellent program consisting of unison, solo,
duet and quartet numbers before the South Cen-
tral Division of The Illinois State Teachers'
Association in Springfield, 111. Over 2,000 people
heard this program, and the organization was
the recipient of many favorable comments and
congratulations. This harmonica band is the
only organization of its kind in its own County
of Macoupin, and so far as known, in the south
central part of the State.
people that Miss Brown is receiving many in-
quiries regarding the organization and work.
The requests from her own school have become
so numerous and urgent that she has been
forced to organize a second band with a mem-
bership of about ninety members. Miss Brown
KI.KHAKT, INI)., January 3.—The metal clari-
is the Supervisor of Music in the Carlinville net is predominating over all musical instru-
Schools.
ments in sales and has done so all Fall, accord-
ing to officials of Harry Pedler & Co., Inc.
This concern is in a position to speak authori-
tatively on this subject because they have long
been known as one of the country's foremost
woodwind houses. "Pedler silver clarinets are
BUFFALO, X. Y., January 3.—The American leading all other woodwind instruments in
Legion Saxophone Band of Niagara Falls con- sales," states a recent announcement from this
templates enlarging its band through an addi- company, "the beauty and quality of the new
Pedler silver clarinet creating an unprecedented
tion of twenty saxophone players. The band,
which is made up entirely of saxophones, is demand for it."
practically in its infancy and has thirty-five
members. The organization has spent more
than $3,000 so far on instruments.
Metal Clarinets Lead
In Sales, Says Pedler
Niagara Falls Saxophone
Band Increases Personnel
Death of U. G. Turner
Banjo and Drum Heads
Ditson "Old Home Week"
Genuine Rogers "Quality brands"
wej-e given Medal and highest
awards over all others.
BOSTON, January 3.—In connection with the
enlarging and renovation of its retail instrument
department, Oliver Ditson Co. set aside a whole
week as "Old Home Week" to welcome its
patrons and new friends. J. Harold Burke, in
charge of the retail instrument department, and
D. C. King, sales nfanager of the concern, ar-
ranged a most interesting program.
Five grades to select from, cheapest
to the very best.
White calf in thin, medium and
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Joseph Rogers, Jr., &c Son
Farmiagdala, N. J.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
Ulmer G. Turner, president of the music
company bearing his name at 1109 Gervais
street, Columbia, S. C., died at a local hospital
in that city, after an illness of three months.
He was about forty-five years old and had
spent about twenty years in Columbia operat-
ing his music store.
Walter Van Duyne, Eugene Halsey and Wal-
ter Kolita, who entered the Lauter Piano Co.
store in Jersey City last October, were con-
victed and sentenced to five years in the State
Prison by Judge O'Regan recently in Ho-
boken, N. J.