Ernest Gamble Concert Party

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ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT PARTY

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Mr. Charles Wilson Gamble Personal Pilot Davis Theatre Building-Pittsburgh Pa,


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Ernest Gamble and Verna Page on board 
S. S. Cretic
 in the Mediterranean


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Gamble Party Crossing Northumberland Strait to Prince Edward Island, Canada



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HAT are you getting out of life?  In spite of business success, congenial friends, your latest sport model car, golf, bridge, mah jongg, isn't life just a wee bit humdrum?  Don't you long sometimes for the thrill of really good music, delightfully and vitally done by real artists, who perform straight to your heart rather than over your head?




The Ernest Gamble Concert Party is just such a one.  There is a finish, a polish, a variety, an attractiveness and an educational value to its programs not often encountered on the concert stage.




Here we have the oldest touring musicale extant, a company whose name is known wherever good music is loved, whose reputation for delightful concerts has become the standard for the platform.




Its tours have taken it over most of the civilized world, from the equator to the Arctic circle.  It has crossed the Atlantic twenty-two times. It has made five tours of the West Indies and Central America, two of Mexico, and twenty-one across the continent.  It is the only American company to have made a successful tour of Northern Africa.




It has been in such great demand with educational institutions that the list of colleges that have presented The Gamble Party reads like an Educational Directory.




With one exception the personnel has remained the same for twenty years, with the resultant perfect ensemble and finished performance not found in companies assembled for a season or two.




During one single season the Gamble Party appeared in thirty-three States and five countries and traveled 43,922 miles.  It is the only company known with sufficient prestige and popularity to be booked direct by post and at invariable guarantees.



Mr. Ernest Gamble's first tour was made in such distinguished company as Eugene Ysaye, the great Belgian


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The Hangman's Tree. Cabanas Fortress, Havana.  Cuba, where the buccaneers, pirates and political prisoners were executed.


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Transportation by Ox-Cart.  Gamble Party traveling in Cuba

 violinist, M. Jean Gerardy, celebrated 'cellist, and Mons. Rauel Pugno, the famous French pianist.  Since then, for twenty odd years, he has headed his own select company, going up and down old mother earth, dispensing the gospel of good song and the ministry of music.  His manner of building programs is simple.  Lots of joy, a little sorrow, a flair of fun, a dash of melody, a few laughs, and a big dramatic thrill are the essential ingredients.



The delightful violinist, Miss Verna Page, so long identified with the Gamble Party, still enhances its recitals with the sympathetic strains of her old Gagliano violin, made in 1736.  There is a charm, a subtlety and a spiritual quality about Miss Page's playing that puts her at once in the artist class. She ranks with the very foremost of the women violinists of the day.  She comes on the platform, the well-bred college girl that she is, free from mannerisms, full of graciousness and desire to please.




Miss Arline Read, the coloratura soprano, has a high lyric voice of surpassing loveliness.  There is a charm about her singing that is quite contagious.  The combination of soprano, violin and bass is ideal and it gives a variety and attractiveness to the programs that is entirely delightful.




Some Noteworthy Appointments



Metropolitan Opera House, New York


Waldorf-Astoria Bagby Musicales, New York


Festival Hall, San Francisco


U. S. Government (5 tours of Canal Zone)


Overseas Theatre League War Work in France


With U. S. Marines in Haiti and Cuba


University Extension Work, Universities of Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wisconsin


Mother
 Chautauqua, New York (4 full summers)


War Cantonments from Coast to Coast


400 Musical Clubs, Choral Societies, Oratorio Organizations and Orchestras


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Ernest Gamble Overseas during Great War.  Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine

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Ernest Gamble and Verna Page at the Cappuccini Convent, Amalfi, Italy


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Gondola Days in Venice.  The Gamble Party's Tour of the Mediterranean Countries


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At Port Au Prince The Gambles helping the U. S. Marines to civilize Haiti





Six hundred Universities, Colleges, Normal Schools, Teachers' Institutes, etc.


Mormon Tabernacles in Salt Lake City and Ogden


Amateur Musical Club, Chicago


Clara Schumann Society, Mobile


Beethoven Club, Memphis


Auditorium Artist Series, Atlanta


Temple Series, Cleveland


Monday Musicale, Pueblo, Colo.


Trinity Church, New York


Festival Music Hall, Cincinnati


Athanaeum Club, New Orleans


Algonquin Club, Boston


Saturday Club, Sacramento


Watkins Hall, the Auditorium and Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee


Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, Conn.


Russell Theatre, Ottawa, Canada


Quartet Clubs of Dallas, Galveston and Houston


Artist Series of Savannah, Charleston and Montgomery


Concert Series of Richmond, Baltimore, Washington, Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina, Edmonton and Saskatoon


St. Georges Choral Society, London, England


State Universities of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming


Girard College, Philadelphia


Northwestern University, Illinois


Notre Dame University, Indiana


Stetson University, Florida


Drake University, Iowa


State College, Amherst, Mass.


State College, New Hampshire


Colgate University, New York


Wake Forest College, North Carolina


Brown University, Providence, R. I.


Wesleyan Universities of Ohio and Nebraska


New Mexico Military Institute


Lawrenceville, N. J., Boys' School



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THE FRIENDLY OAKS,
That the Gambles call home and where their programs are prepared


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TWO REASONS Why Ernest Gamble tours and why he dislikes being away from home


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Teatro Nacional.  Panama. where the Gamble Party appeared


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A Billboard Stand Announcing a Concert for Gamble Party