The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

The coming of the Yale Glee, Banjo and
Mandolin clubs the evening of December
rs is one of the matters Of breathless in
terest to which the younger set is looking
forward IS the gala holiday season ap-
proaches. This is the annual Christmas
"trip of the three clubs, and the friends of
the organization recall their previous
visits as occasions of joyous interest. They
will arrive at the Terminal station the
morning of the 26th at 11:40
Music lovers will be delighted by the
concert which is to be given at the Ma
aestic theatre at S:l5 that evening, since
the clubs have been carefully picked and
the music chosen with much thought. All
the dash and swing which characterizes
the Yale organization is to be evident this
season, and among selections of high mus
fcal merit will be interspersed a number
of clever musical novelties.
Royal entertainment is planned for the
| boys during their stay, and a list of
prominent members of society acting as
patronesses insures large and fashion
able audience. An informal luncheon by
the Yale Alumni association will be given
at 1 o'clock, and then taken on an auto
mobile tour of the city by the local Yale
men. In the afternoon Mrs Henry h.
Badham will give tea where the visitors
may meet the youth and beauty of BIZ
xningham. This will only break up in time
ITO allow the men to return to their cars at
1.-THE station.
The clubs are travelling in three private
f,, ,.yI,fa oh, u
time, sleeping and eating there. crew
of eight men is carried solely to cook
serve and attend to the wants of the men,
Counting the two managers the clubs COM
prise 43 men. There is a piano in the
'Grasmere" at which Mr.. D. S. Mooore
,ds much in demand, being an able substi-
tute for Cole Porter, who for the last two
years has delighted audiences with his in
imitable pianologues Mr. Moore is well
known in New Haven as the composer of
Good Night, Princeton" the new foot
ball song which took the college by storm
and created great enthusia SIN as sung at
the big football contests of the fall. Life
ON the cars is delightfully."- free and in
formal. The men lounge about in easy at
tire discussing the previous party. Mr.
w. S. Innis leader of the Glee club, and
Mr.. E, j. Phelps, Jr, leader of the Banjo
and Mandolin clubs, have been on the trip
for the last three years. Always ready
with little songs and snatches of popular
music, they lend Yiyacity and life to the
party, which the others are not slow to
improve and build on. Little concerts by
quartets, sextets and octets are the
rule of the day, and these are supple
mented by individual offerings by various
members. With such song and banter the
time flies merrly. The trip takes two
weeks and concerts are given at Balti-
more, December 20; Columbia, December
22; Savannah December "A; Atlanta, De-
cember %; Birmingham, December 26;
New Orleans, December 81; Memphis, De-
cember %, and Pittsburg, December 81.
This gives a tour of hundreds of miles and
affords excellent opportunity for the men
to see large section of the country.
The preparation practice and rehearsals
began as soon as college opened in the
fall. Trials We're open to all members of
the university, from whom a large num-
Der were chosen for preliminary testing.
AS time went on, various cuts were made
until the clubs reached their present
number. Great care was taken in the
choosing of the men so that in addition
to the unusually fine musical talent, due
to a great wealth of material, the clubs
will uphold the reputation for pleasing
personality and manliness which their
predecessors have established before them.
In fact, this years organization bids fair
to set a record which future clubs Will
find 1t hard TO equal
The following programme provides
range and attra ractiveness we'll in keeping
with the ability of the clubs:
PART l.
l. Mother of Men" (Seth Bingham, 04
-Glee Club.
O. (a) Moorish Dance Song" (Nicode);
tb) Brazilian Dreams" 6Dixon)-Mandolin
Club.
8. Mine Inches of Foam" tBarretD-
Glee Club.
T. Mother o Mine CTours)-Mr. Lang
enheim and Glee Club.
PART IL.
l. Quartet Mr.. Langenheim, Mr. Mey-
er, Mr. Parker and Mr. Innis.
2 Hungarian Rag" Genceberg)-Banjo
Club
3. Song of the Nightingale" (Arr. by
Goodale 'S9)-Glee Club.
4. .'Tutti Frutti' (Arr by Goodale, 's9
and Austin).
PART III.
/. Serenade Cd. S. Moore, '15)-Mr.
Moore and Mandolin Club.
2. Medley (Arr. by Goodale, s9)--Glee
Club.
g. Yale Bedley (Arr. by Austn)-Banjo
Club.
4 "At Dawning" (Cadmam-Mr. Meyer
and Glee Club.
5. Bright College Years. CDurand, 'SD-
Glee Club