Eton Boys
- Actor
- Soundtrack
The Four Eton Boys were educated in small towns near St. Louis, where
they all gained dramatic experience in amateur productions. Charlie and
Jack Day toured the country for nine years as acrobats, playing the
Palace Theatre on Broadway nine times in a single year. In 1923 the
introduction of their songs in their act was so successful that they
were booked at every variety theatre on Broadway, appeared in the
musical comedy Rufus Lemaire's Affairs, and were featured in a two-reel
comedy film. After singing with the Four Rajahs and announcing at
station KMOX, St. Louis, Art Gentry joined the quartet as lead. Earl
Smith left vaudeville in the Middle West for New York night club work,
joining the Day brothers at the Nut Club. A popular CBS feature, the
Eton Boys enlivened Borden's Forty-Five Minutes in Hollywood and were
heard in the Columbia Varieties program. They made Paramount and Warner
shorts and toured the Loews Circuit. They recorded for Columbia records
and in 1935, they joined the cast of the Socony Sketch Book, the weekly
radio series conducted by Johnny Green.
