The Ernest Gamble Concert Party's Recital Book

              The Ernest Gamble Concert Party's

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Decisive, Descriptive and Distinctive Data -- Being Some Pertinent Information 
About THE ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT PARTY



It is the oldest and best known Touring Musicale on the Concert Platform.




It has visited every State, every Country of North America, Central America, most of Europe, the Mediterranean countries of Northern Africa, and the West Indies.




It has made eighteen transcontinental tours.  It has crossed the Atlantic 22 times.




During a single season the Gamble Party appeared in 33 States and 5 Countries and traveled 43,922 miles.




Its members do not 
double-in-brass
 but each is an artist in his one particular forte and the product of the greatest masters of America and Europe.




It is not a 
coached
 company, hastily gotten together by an agency for a season or two.




Forty per cent. of its appointments are with Educational Institutions, Colleges, Universities and State Normal Schools.  30% of its engagements are with Musical Clubs, Choral Societies, Orchestras, etc.




It is the only company with sufficient prestige and popularity to book itself by post and at invariable guarantees.




The GAMBLE concerts are not so severely classical as not to be popular and not so popular as to be musically cheap.  The artists perform to the hearts of their audience, not over its heads.




The management furnishes a superb and generous supply of advertising matter of great variety and attractiveness, consisting of 4 kinds of billboard stands, 6 styles of window-cards, lithographs, circulars, brochures, tickets, tonight heralds, specially prepared press material, newspaper cuts, four-page de luxe programs with libretto and analytical notes, etc.




Presenting THE GAMBLE CONCERT PARTY gives strength, dignity, prestige and drawing-power to an Artist Series or Course and wins for the local management the thanks and appreciation of delighted patrons.





SOME NOTEWORTHY APPOINTMENTS



Metropolitan Opera House, New York.


The 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 and England.


U. S. Marines in Haiti and Cuba


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


Santa Fe Railroad Welfare Work (12 seasons).


The 
Mother
 Chautauqua, N. Y. (4 full summers).


Chautauquas at Winona Lake, Ind., Bay View, Mich., Lakeside, O., Boulder, Col., Lake Junaluska, N. C., Rock River, Ill., Epworth Assembly, Ludington, Mich., Baptist Assembly, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, etc.


The War Camps from Coast to Coast.


600 Universities, Colleges, Normal Schools, Teachers Institutes, etc.


400 Musical Clubs, Choral Societies, Oratorio Organizations and Orchestras.


Mormon Tabernacles in Salt Lake City and Ogden.


Amateur Musical Club, Chicago.


Clara Schumann Society, Mobile.


The Beethoven Club, Memphis.


Auditorium Artist Series, Atlanta.


Temple Course, Cleveland.


Monday Musicale, Pueblo.


Trinity Church, New York.


Festival Music Hall, Cincinnati.


Athanaeum Club, New Orleans.


Algonquin Club, Boston.


Saturday Club, Sacramento.


Mozart Club, Pittsburgh.


Massey Hall, Toronto.


Watkins Hall and Peabody College, Nashville.


Foot Guard Hall, Hartford.


Russell Theatre, Ottawa.


Quartet Clubs of Galveston, Houston and Dallas.


Artist Series of Savannah, Montgomery and Charleston.


Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y.


Concert Series of Richmond, Baltimore and Washington.


St. George's Choral Society, London, England.


Concert Series of Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina and Saskatoon.


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


Girard College, Philadelphia.


North Western University, Illinois.


Stetson University, Florida.


Notre Dame University, Indiana.


Drake University, Des Moines.


State College, Amherst, Mass.


Colgate University, New York.


Wake Forest College, North Carolina.


Brown University, Providence, R. I.


Wesleyan Universities of Ohio, Nebraska





APPEARANCES WITH GREAT ARTISTS



Mr. Evan Williams, Greatest American tenor.


Eugene Ysaye, great Belgian violinist, director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.


Mons Rauel Pugno, celebrated French pianist.


Mme. Antoinette Trebelli, prima donna


M. Jean Gerardy, Belgian 'cellist.


Mdlle. Alice Verlet, soprano, Opera Comique,


Mr. George Hamlin, American tenor.


Mme. Maud Powell, distinguished American violinist.


Eduard Remenyi, great Hungarian violinist.


Mr. William Sherwood, pianist.


Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, N. Y.


Seidl's Symphony Orchestra, New York.


Mr. Luigi von Kunits, violinist.






Mammoth Auditoriums
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MORMON TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
In this unique and vast Tabernacle, The Gamble Party has appeared before an audience of five thousand in company with the Tabernacle Choir of three hundred voices, the largest permanent choir in the U. S.
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FESTIVAL HALL, SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION
Ernest Gamble sang the bass role in Haydn's 
Creation
 here with the Pacific Choral Society, 300 voices, and the Exposition Orchestra of 80 pieces. Few singers have had this distinction.
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NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, INDIANA
The Ernest Gamble Concert Party has appeared at this greatest of Catholic Educational Institutions in America six times.  There's a reason!
MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM, HOUSTON, TEX.Figure

A mammoth Convention Hall, where the City offers free the very best musical attractions, including the Ernest Gamble Concert Party.
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CARNEGIE HALL, PITTSBURGH
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Mammoth Chorus, Chautauqua, New York
Ernest Gamble.  Bass Soloist, seated—fourth from right




Line o' March of Ernest Gamble Concert Party Overseas

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Showing the Perigrinations [sicPeregrinations]of the Platform's Premier Concert Givers, sent abroad along with Sothern and Marlowe, Elsie Janis, Margaret Wilson, et. al., by America's Overseas Theatre League.  The Gamble Party went up and down France from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhine, from the Riviera to the Somme cheering British Imperials, French Poilus, Italian Bersaglieri, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Canadians and our own Doughty Doughboys.





Little Journeys in Many Lands

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ERNEST GAMBLE and VERNA PAGE ON BOARD 
S. S. CRETIC
 IN MEDITERRANEAN
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GONDOLA DAYS IN VENICE
The Ernest Gamble Party on the Grand Canal
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AT CABANNAS FORTRESS, HAVANA
Verna Page and Ernest Gamble under tree where buccaneers were executed.
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CONCERTING IN ALGIERS
The date market.  At the back is the El Aboukir Club where the Gambles appeared.
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THE GAMBLE PARTY AT SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE
Stratford-on-Avon, the Tourist's Mecca
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IN HAITI
Verna Page, Ernest Gamble and American Naval Officer at Port au Prince.




FROM THE ARCTIC CIRCLE TO THE TROPICS.



LARAMIE REPUBLICAN. LARAMIE, WYOMING, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1920





A CONCERT ENJOYABLE



ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT PARTY GIVES PERFORMANCE TO APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE.




To the three talented members of the Ernest Gamble concert party those who braved the snow of Saturday night and attended the concert at the university auditorium are indebted for a musical treat, and as was the unanimous opinion, one that more than repaid them for the effort.  The program proved one of the most popular ever heard here, and it is unfortunate that the weather was so bad, thus preventing a number of people from being present who would really have enjoyed it.  As it was there were more than a score of tickets sold to those who have not season tickets, and the auditorium was fairly well filled.




Heading the party is Ernest Gamble, basso cantante.  Mr. Gamble's voice is one of those really unusual ones, a bass which is powerful and yet very sweet, with sufficient range to make it adaptable for a wide variety of selections.  But if Mr. Gamble were not able to sing a note the audience would still find him charming, for his greatest artistry lies in the manner in which he catches the attention of his hearers, guages [sicgauges]the depth of their interest and plays on them like an instrument responsive to his every touch.  His enunciation is so good that one wonders if the words printed on the program are not unnecessary.  In addition to his magnetic personality Mr. Gamble is strongly dramatic, the number which most clearly demonstrated this particular phase of his ability being the ever popular 
Danny Deever,
 which he sang with real artistry.  His final encore, 
The Americans Come,
 was another excellent bit, and 
Ein Ton,
 a song which is sustained for eighty notes on one tone was a popular number.




Miss Verna Leone Page, who by the a violinist of no ordinary ability, and she did her full share to entertain the audience.  The kind fairies gave her at birth not only a real talent, but another precious gift, blond beauty, and her stage presence and vivacious manner are important assets.  Her selections gave opportunity for a wide display of tonal perfection and technical skill, and in most instances Miss Page made the most of them.




The trio number, 
Fiddle and I,
 was so delightful that it is to be wondered that Mr. Gamble does not include more in his program.  Voice, violin and piano mingled in a charming whole that brought forth prolonged applause and called for an encore, the company giving in no less enjoyable manner Carrie Jacob Bond's 
Lullaby,




They Don't Complain.




If for no other reason the Gamble company endeared itself to the audience by its good sportsmanship There were no complaints about the bad weather, and the performers expended just as much care and attention on the program as though the house had been packed to the last seat.  Their easy and graceful stage manners are a revelation and whenever the Gamble company comes this way again it will find a warm welcome awaiting it.  It is not to be wondered at that the doughboys in France hailed them in their hundreds of performances and asked for more.




THE HERALD Havana, Cuba. Feby. 10th, 1920





Gamble Concer



The floor of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium was packed last evening when the Ernest Gamble Concert Party appeared for the second time.  The various little social sets of American and British communities appeared to have conspired together to make the concert room a sort of rendezvous with the result that one would find a row of seats occupied by one party and another row filled by another, these all having a pleasant social gathering as well as enjoying an excellent musical program.




We are glad to announce that Mr. Gamble has been persuaded to give another concert, this to occur on Thursday evening.




THE SAULT DAILY STAR
BY SAULT STAR. LIMITED.
J. W. urran, Editor.  Office, 76 Queen St.



AULT STE. MARIE. CANAD
ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT NOTABLE MUSICAL EVENT

Party Made Many Friends at the Y. M. C. A. Last Night




The Ernest Gamble Concert, given under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. last night, was a classical affair throughout.  Although the crowd did not reached expectations the concert party had their unstinted appreciation, numerous encores being demanded.




Mr. Ernest Gamble was in fine voice showing his great versatility in a well-arranged program.  His rendering of the Toreador's song from 
Carmen
 and 
The Floral Dance
 were particularly masterful 
Mary
 an old Scotch melody was given with great feeling.




Miss Page won the hearts of her audience from the start.  She literally made her violin speak.




Miss Reed at the piano was the self-possessed finished article.  Her technique and temperament were in perfect harmony.




At the conclusion the audience seemed reluctant to go.  They would fain have heard more.




PANAMA 
STAR & HERALD


Balboa and Ancon


March 1st, 1920




Among those invited to the reception by Admiral Wilson on board the flagship Pennsylvania of the Atlantic fleet were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gamble, Miss Helene Beed and Terry Martin, all of the Ernest Gamble concert party now appearing on the Isthmus in a series of twenty concerts.




In the evening these artists gave delightful program for the admiral, his staff and a thousand accios.




The Admiral expressed his pleasure by saying the concert was not the least of his pleasures on this visit to these waters.




The return of the Gamble Concert company brought an outburst of applause last evening when Ernest Gamble the distinguished basso cantante made his reappearance before the people of Ancon, full voiced, original in delineation and above all magnetic in personality.




His offerings last evening stamped him a concert singer of distinction.  Much enthusiasm was displayed by the audience over the group of songs with which he opened the program.  
The Clang of The Forge
 with its low deep tones; 
The airy Pipers
 with its silvery tinkling strains, and 
The Americans Come,
 a song full of expression and emotion which lacked nothing in his splendid rendering of them.  Miss Reed as an accompanist interpreted the numbers in delightful manner.




Miss Verna Page the charming violinist proved herself an artist of exceptional ability, giving her numbers with sincere warmth and interpretation.  Miss Pages fine art lent much to the success of the evening.




All the numbers on the long program presented by the entire company made a decided impression and were given hearty recognition.  The program was refined and charming never dry or over the beads of the listeners and afforded an evening of much pleasure.




An informal reception was given by the company at the close of the concert and light refreshments were




SEMPER FIDELIAN PORT-AU-PRINCE., HAITI MARCH 11 1920 CONCERT AT CASERNE DARTIGOENAVE



Marines are Thrilled by Artists from Home.




Last evening, Thursday, our welfare staff arranged and produced at the Marine Barracks.  Portau Prince a concert, unique in that it is the first performance in Haiti, so far as we know, by skilled American artists, and in that it was of such quality as to divert, thrill and inspire all through.  Fay Fostor's «The Americans Come» sung by Mr. Ernest Gamble, basso, thrilled the auditors.  There was much delicacy and feeling in the rendition of the «Ho mance and Gavolle» from Mignon, by Miss Verna Leone Page, the violiniste, who is artistic to her fairy finger tips -- a sylph with the wand of Orpheus, Miss 
Helen Reed
, pianiste and soprano, art, beauty, youth and charm personified, played Mc Dowell's «Concert Etude» and sing «I Hear A Thrush At Eve», by Cadmin.  Both were well done.  «Now Will You Walk and Talk, With Me», by Miss Reed  Mr. Gamble, was clever and a delight to all.  It was the hit of the evening.  Mr. Terry Mardn's interpretative readings were highly amusing.  His «Cremation of Sam Magee» was a savory morsel of wit and 
hcer
 superbly served.




The audience of over four hundred was composed in the main of hard-worked MARINES.  Many needed sleep and rest  the cry at the end was «More».  Frne an is exhausting, the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak — the artist must save himself for the big job of aiding souls to aspire.  Reluctantly we let them go.




MORALE asked that Mr. Gamble stay over until the next steamer that this rare treat might be given the other posts of the Brigade.  Advance bookings force them from us on the «Panama» today.




We must book ahead.  On this occassion [sicoccasion]the concert was booked, given publicity and staged within twelve hours after Mr. Gamble's advance agent arrived upon the scene.  Marines can do anything.




Bon Voyage!  Au Revoir!




Ernest Gamble's deep bass voice was pleasingly heard in the opening number 
The Bandolero
.  He received much applause.




Mr. Gamble's voice is so well-known, that nothing more need be said of its merits.






The Ernest Gamble Concert Company (Compañia de Conciertos), compuesta de famosos artistas que han recorrido el mundo entero, ofrecerá dos funciones el Mártes 3 y Miérčoles 4 de Febrero, en los Salones de la Asocíación Cristiana de Jóvenes, Egido 12.




Precio de entrada $1.00 y $1.50 por ambas noches.  Brillante oportunidad para los amantes de la música
.






KODAKS

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The Gamble Concert Party on the bridge of an American submarine chaser at Royan France.
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An audience of Rainbow Division and First Corps men, homeward bound Brest to Boston on the ex-German liner, 
Pretoria,
 listening to a Gamble program.
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Ernest Gamble at the great German fortress, Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine.
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THE GAMBLES IN QUAINT CARCARCASONNE
Near the Spanish border.  One of the finest examples of medieval walled town in France.





Miss Verna Leone Page,
 concert violiniste of The Gamble Concert Party, is one of the few women violinists who has achieved a great popularity with the public.  Her playing has a charm and sympathy that reaches the heart, and it is this personal note in her work that is the secret of her invariable success.  ¶ She comes before her audience as a well-bred, cultured young lady with a charmingly modest manner which immediately wins her hearers.  Miss Page depends upon a broad sympathetic tone of exquisite purity, genuine artistry and intelligent interpretations, rather than on technical display.  ¶ She attended college
Figure at Oxford, Ohio, and at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Chicago.  Her violin studies were with Jacobsohn of Chicago, Max Bendix and Michael Banner of New York, and with the great 
maestro,
 Carl Halir of Berlin.  ¶ Miss Page possesses a rarely precious old Cremona violin made by the master workman, Januarius Gagliano, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-six.  This violin has a marvelously rich and sympathetic tone.




Januarius Gagliano Filitts Alexandri fecit Neap 1786.




FACSIMILE OF THE LABEL IN MISS PAGE'S VIOLIN




PHOTOGRAPH BY RASA, SAN ANTONIO