Art Gentry
- Actor
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, Mr. 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.