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The Music Trade Review
JULY 28, 1928
Genevieve Tighe Plays
a B & D Silver Bell
Outstanding Figure in. Happiness Girls, Weil-
Known Vaudeville Act, Praises the Bacon
OlDEST AND LAMEST HOUSE IN TOT TRAM
GROTON, CONN., July 23.—Genevieve Tighe, of
the Happiness Girls, is a very clever young
lady banjo artist, according to David L. Day,
dependable
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Elks and Sherman-Clay Work Together
in Forming Spokane Harmonica Band
Organization Now Numbers Eighty-nine Players—Work to Be Extended Throughout
Various Institutions of City during Coming Fall
CAN FRANCISCO, CAT.., July 19—Richard
^ Ahlf, in charge of branches for Sherman,
Clay & Co., received an interesting story yes-
terday on the birth and life of the Elks'
Harmonica Band, organized in Spokane in con-
junction with the branch there. In June the
Elks held ,their State convention in Spokane
and J. J. Schiffner, Exalted Ruler of the Elks'
Lodge of Spokjane (Wash.), felt a desire to or-
ganize sonic kind of boys' group and decided
that a harmonica band would be about the best
thing to interest them. Knowing the co-opera-
tive spirit of Sherman, Clay & Co., he told
his plans to the firm- and was directed to
Harvey Guertin, manager of the band and or-
chestra department, who immediately saw the
possibilities of the idea and set to work to
organize a harmonica band.
Advertisements in the daily papers brought
125 boys to the first meeting, harmonicas were
immediately procured and the little Hohner
booklet, "How to Learn to Play a Harmonica,"
was furnished. Within two weeks, such was
their enthusiasm that the boys, ranging in age
from six to seventeen years, were all playing
well in unison. Parents became interested and
in many instances attended the meetings and
rehearsals. The boys were drilled and through
the aid of the Elks and enthusiastic citizens,
they were soon all in uniform. The band, in
formation consisted of a drum major, flag car-
rier, snare drummer, bass drummer and eighty-
five harmonica players. During the Elks'
convention the Elks' Harmonica Band was
featured continually. They were headliners in
the parades and serenaded hotels, business
houses, etc.
So much pride was taken in the boys by
everyone that it was felt the movement ought
not to die out and it has now been voted that
the harmonica band remain a permanent aux-
iliary of the order. Enthusiastic plans are being
made for the future. According to the letter
from Harvey Guertin to Richard Ahlf, at the
opening of the schools the band will make a
tour of the schools and orphanages. It is
planned to organize a harmonica band in every
school and orphanage for the pleasure of the
little chaps who have not had opportunities of
studying any musical instrument. The better
players of the Elks' Harmonica Band, directed
by Guertin, will be assigned to take charge of
the various orphanages and develop their har-
monica bands.
Oxford, O., Oxford Boys' Band, Wilson Mc-
Clain.
Rockton, Wis., Rockton Brass Band, R. M.
Bond.
Evansville, Wis., City Band.
Natchez, Miss., Municipal. Brass Band, Lee
C. Wright.
Wyoming, Pa., Wyoming Municipal Band, J.
Cino Paci.
Ridgeway, Pa., Saxophone Band, Kenneth
Klugh.
Conway, Ark., Conway Band, Fred Martin.
Fairmont, W. Va., Marion County Council
Boy,Scout Band, C. M. Williamson.
Lunenburg, Mass., Lunenburg Town Band,
Mrs. Frances Willard.
Drayton, N. D., Harmonica Band.
Lake City, Mich., Lake City High School
Band, H. G. Hager.
Sebring, O., High School Band, E. L. Allen.
Pulaski, N. Y., American Legion Band, Jacob
A. Young.
Hayward, Cal., American Legion Band.
Doylestown, Pa., National Farm School
Band, Lieutenant Frankel.
Centralia, Pa., Centralia Cornet Band, Michael
Riley.
Nampa, Ida., Nampa Women's Band, E. M.
Mathews.
Savannah, Ga., Symphony Orchestra, Warrant
Officer Oscar McClellan.
Rochelle, 111., Fife Band.
Salida, Cal., Salida Shopmen's Band, M. R.
Ewing.
Mountain View, Cal., Community Band, Dr.
R. T. Glyer
Brownsville, O., Brownsville Band, Herman
Loughman.
Pillow, Pa., Pillow Band, Leon Buffington.
Blandon, Pa., Premier Band, Barton Bitzer.
Mulberry, Fla., Panther Syncopators, Platt
Smith.
Etna, O., Etna School Orchestra, Floyd
Elliott.
Buffalo, Minn., Municipal Band.
Allentown, Pa., Joseph Smith's Band, Frank
H. Troxell.
Meridian, Cal., Meridian Orchestra, Joseph
Moores.
Kennewick, Wash., Kennewick Band.
general manager of the Bacon Banjo Co., who
received a visit from Miss Tighe recently.
The Happiness Girls comprise a company of
ten artists who ahve been making a big hit
wherever they have appeared. They have been
playing Keith Theatres in and around New
York and are playing the Summer season on
the Poli Circuit in New England. "Miss Tighe
is the outstanding hit of the show with her
clever banjo playing and dancing," states Mr.
Day, "and she is also a splendid pianist. Need-
less to say, she plays a B & D Silver Bell banjo
and expresses great fondness for her instru-
ment."
Iowa Band Contest in
Waterloo in October
WATERLOO, I A., July 23.—The annual Iowa State
Band Contest will be held in this city in con-
nection with the annual Dairy Cattle Congress
and National Belgium Horseshow the first week
of October, according to an announcement
made to-day by William Laurier, president of
the State Band Association. He has completed
arrangements with officials of the Fair for the
appearance of more than forty bands, which
will be divided into three principal classes:
municipal bands, fraternal bands and high
school bands, which will range in size from
forty to eighty pieces.
Silva-Bet Line
Complete Price Range
BOSTON, MASS., July 23.—The Cundy-Bettoney
Co., which revolutionized the business of selling
clarinets a few years ago with its introduction
of the now celebrated Silva-Bet line of metal
clarinets, now has a complete metal clarinet
line with a price range that gives the dealer
an opportunity to develop this branch of the
business on a broad scale. As a result, dealers
in all parts of the country are meeting with
remarkable success with Cundy-Bettoney prod-
ucts and new accounts are being opened every
day. Other numbers in the line include the
Boston Wonder and the PX Lauve.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.