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RECREA TION. 



public entertainer; and a programme which 

 includes the best bands, the best story- 

 tellers, the best performers on various in- 

 struments, the best vocal quartettes, can 

 quickly be made up from the rapidly grow- 

 ing repertoire of this wonderful instru- 

 ment. Here is a specimen programme 

 which speaks for itself: 



PROGRAMME. 



FIRST PART. 



t. Cornet Solo .... The Coi7imodore Polka. 

 By the wonderful cornetist, W. Paris Chambers. 



2. Patriotic Song 



j When Johnny Comes 



Marching Home. 

 By George J. Gaskin. 



3. Recitation . . . A Negro Funeral Sermon. 



By George Graham. 



4. Banjo Solo . Yankee Doodle and Variations. 



By the famous artist, Vess L. Ossman. 



5. Italian Solo Di Quella Pira. 



(The grand song from " II Trovatore.") 



By the renowned Italian tenor, Sig. F. A. Giannini. 



6. Band Selection . Romance 0/ the Trombone. 



7. Male Quartette .... Hear Dem Bells. 



By the Mozart Quartette. 



8. Soprano Solo Die Nachtingale 



(The Nightingale). 



Sung in German by Fraeulein Vroni Von Eidner. 



9. Negro Song .... Turkey in the Straw. 



By the negro delineator, Billy Golden. 



SECOND PART. 



10. Trombone Solo . . . Happy Days in Dixie. 



By Arthur Willard Pryor, the trombone soloist, 

 Sousa's Band. 



11. Humorous Recitation, Fakir Selling Corn Cure. 



12. Tyrolean Duet . . . The Mountain Climber. 



By the Graus Duo of the famous Graus Mountain 

 Choir. 



13. Aria from " Rigoletto." 



Senor Noritta, clarionette soloist, Sousa's Band. 



14. Banjo Duet The Virginia Bells. 



By Cullen and Collins, the popular banjoists of 

 Washington, D. C. 



15. Sacred Song Coronation. 



By Mr. Steve Porter. 



16. Orchestra Selection . . The Pomona Waltz. 



By the Metropolitan Orchestra. 



17. Tenor Solo Ben Bolt. 



One of the old favorites that appeals to every one, 

 sung by Mr. E. M. Favor. 



8 Brass Quartette Adeste Fidelis. 



Messrs. Pryor, Lyons, Higgins, and Pryor, 

 of Sousa's Band. 



It is plain that for pleasure, for instruc- 

 tion, and for general benefit the gramo- 

 phone must soon become a real boon to 

 millions of people whose lives are passed 

 far from the amusements and advantages 

 of our great cities. Its uses are numberless, 

 as well as its possibilities for general enter- 

 tainment. The girls of a family can in a 

 few hours make up a programme of discs 

 that will afford their friends far more pleas- 

 ure than any ordinary party, and, if they 

 want dancing, they may dance with light 

 hearts and heels, for the gramophone gives 

 you Sousa's Band or a Hungarian orches- 

 tra, for waltzes and two-steps, and that is 

 better music surely than any local per- 

 former could offer. And if they wish to 

 sing " Auld Lang Syne " before breaking 

 up, the gramophone will lead the singing 

 with a good grace, and play the guests out 

 of the house with " Home, Sweet Home." 



GRAMOPHONE INDESTRUCTIBLE 

 RECORD. 



The illustration is of the improved $25.00 

 style, which is handsomely finished in oak 

 with rich trimmings — runs by a perfectly 

 governed clockwork motor. 



The National Gramophone Company, 

 proprietors of the Gramophone, 874 Broad- 

 way, New York, are so confident that this 

 $25.00 style will fulfil its claims, that it is 

 willing to guarantee perfect satisfaction to 

 any reader who will order the Gramophone 

 and a dozen or more of the records men- 

 tioned in the above programme, paying 

 $25.00 for the Gramophone and 50 cents 

 each for the twelve additional records 

 (fourteen records in all, two being free). 

 The distinct understanding being that if the 

 Gramophone does not give satisfaction it 

 can be returned at once and the money re- 

 funded, less the express charges. They 

 have also $10.00 and $15.00 styles. 



Catalogues and further particulars may 

 be had by addressing the proprietors. 



