Vassar Girls

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VASSAR GIRLS

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Exclusive Management: Chicago-Mutual, Chicago; Co-Operative, Omaha; Columbian, St. Paul




ON THE CAMPUS AT VASSAR




VASSAR GIRLS
This company is the outgrowth of an ideal.  About ten years ago a gentleman of some means and liberal inclination conceived the idea of educating a double quartette of girls for high class concert work.  With ample means and not impatient of time, he selected from the wide circle of his acquaintance eight girls of superior character and musical ability and furnished them means to complete their literary and musical education, guiding the latter in the direction of their contemplated work.

The selection of the personnel of a company five years in advance of their first engagement, is something unique in the history of company organization and gives the Vassar Girls a distinction enjoyed by no other.  After these years of schooling and special preparation, the eight original girls appeared in concert in an eastern city and their success was instantaneous and eminently justified the time, expense and work required to perfect their musical education, make solo artists of each individual and make them a unit in their ensemble work.

For five years, this company of educated, cultured and refined young women has honored its name, the Eight Vassar Girls, in a high class musical event in the best advanced vaudeville in the leading cities of the United States, and has demonstrated as have many of the great

VASSAR GIRLS SAXOPHONE SEXTETTE
 artists of the world, that a good, clean musical event of superior quality, free from any suspicion of coarseness or cheapness wins appreciation and applause on its merits everywhere.  So great has been their success that practically all of their time for five years has been consumed in return date work in twenty or thirty cities through which they made their first tour, such as New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver and San Francisco, where ever-increasing audiences have greeted them.

After prolonged negotiations we have, by means of a guarantee of a fancy salary, induced them to give a part of their time to the Lyceum.  Their concert will be the big event of the year on those courses fortunate enough to secure a date.



The Company Includes

A sextette of saxophones.
A septette of brass instruments, cornets and trombones.
A septette of wood wind instruments: flute, clarinets, oboe and bassoon.
A quartette of clarinets corresponding to tenor, soprano, alto and bass of the human voice.
A quartette of wind instruments: flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon, such as is used by symphony orchestras.
Trios and duets in various combinations of instruments.
Instrumental solos on flute, clarinet, trombones, saxophone, oboe, bassoon.
Vocal soloist, Miss Olive Greatrex.





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Chicago

The Eight Vassar Girls yesterday afternoon fulfilled all of the many promises in a brilliant and novel entertainment, winning enthusiastic applause.  These talented and attractive young ladies exhibited unusual proficiency as instrumentalists and vocalists.  Their

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 numbers rendered upon saxaphones, reeds and brass were marked by a unity of purpose, richness and sweetness of tone and quiet intelligence of expression.—
Record-Herald.



San Francisco

The refined and beautiful young ladies known to fame as the Eight Vassar Girls, rendered a splendid program that ranged from popular ballads to Italian opera.  The rendering of the sextette from Lucia called forth much applause.—
Chronicle.



Philadelphia

One of the biggest hits of the current season has been the Eight Vassar Girls.  They are accomplished to an unusual degree.  They are expert musicians, cultured and brilliant, and rendered their program with remarkable skill and intelligence.  Their concert was the crowning event of the season and deserves the enthusiastic applause it received.—
Item.



New York

The Eight Vassar Girls presented a concert of unusual excellence.  They are young women of exceptional ability, play many different musical instruments with exceptional skill and more than exceeded the promise of the advance notices.—
Clipper.



C5's of Quality



Chicago Lyceum Bureau
Chicago


Co-Operative Lyceum Bureau
Omaha


Chautauqua Managers Association
Chicago


Columbian Lyceum Bureau
St. Paul


Coit Lyceum Bureau
Cleveland





MANZ ENGRAVING COMPANY, THE HOLLISTER PRESS, CHICAGO



The Eight Vassar Girls

Washington

The much talked of Vassar Girls, eight dainty, pretty and charming girls, made an individual and collective hit at yesterday's concert.  Clad in the academic gown and mortar-board caps, they presented an attractive appearance.  The saxaphone sextette was perhaps the best event on the program, for on this melodious reed instrument the light airs of the day were rendered with telling effect.  From these melodies they passed into the Pilgrim Chorus from Tannhauser.  Then the sextette from Lucia was given, and it proved the Vassar Girls to be musicians of unusual merit.—
Post.



Minneapolis

The Eight Vassar Girls presented a strong musical program, playing various instruments with impartial ease and ability.  Tuneful music, pretty girls, and a varied program charmed the great audience.  It is the strongest combination that has ever appeared in Minneapolis.—
Journal.



Omaha

The Eight Vassar Girls made a tremendous hit.  Such an instrumental combination has never before been offered in Omaha.  The various numbers on their program were warmly applauded.—
World-Herald.



Boston

Not a whit too much praise was accorded this double quartette of brilliant and accomplished musicians by the press agent.  They are most versatile and brilliant performers on many different and difficult instruments.  They play Wagner, grand opera or selections from the latest musical comedies.—
Herald.




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Denver

The Eight Vassar Girls made a big hit in Denver.  Their concert is a departure from the beaten path.  Every one is an artist.  They attracted an immense audience, are attractive in appearance, and presented one of the most brilliant programs ever given here.—
Rocky Mountain News.


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