W. Eugene Page

Walter Eugene Page (13 May 1876 – 26 May 1922) was an early 20th-century American performing artist who made records with Victor.

[1] He was considered a virtuoso on the mandolin, and played marimbaphone, banjo and mandola as well.

[2][3] He toured with his performing company, The Eugene Page concert company, as part of the Chautauqua movement.

[3][4] Members included Page on mandolin; Florence Phelps McCune also on mandolin; Emma McDonald, violincello, and Signor Innocenrio Zito, harp.

[4] Page made 5 commercial recordings with Victor Records[1]

W. Eugene Page, 1908 from a Chautauqua brochure.
1897 advertisement by Lyon and Healy in The Church magazine. The advertisement mentions prominent mandolin players of the time: Salvatore Tomaso (Tomaso's Mandolin Orchestra, Chicago), Arling Shaeffer (author of Elite Mandolin Instructor published Chicago by Lyon and Healy Jan. 1, 1891), Arthur Wells (on Chautauqua circuit), Best, H. P. Sutorius (Minneapolis), W. L. Hazen (Hazen's Mandolin Orchestra, Chicago), Bouton, Turney, and Page as helping Lyon and Healy to improve their 1897 Washburn mandolin.