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Line 58: ====Pre–World War II==== [[Image:Roy-smeck-book.jpg\|Cover of a 1928 instructional book for [[ukulele]] by Roy Smeck, the "Wizard of the Strings."\|thumb\|right]] The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience during the [[Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)\|Panama Pacific International Exposition]], held ~~for~~from ~~most~~spring to fall of 1915 in [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite book \| last = Lipsky \| first = William Line 90: \| year = 2003 \| page = 6 \| isbn = 9781574241341}}</ref> where it was taken up by [[vaudeville]] performers such as [[Roy Smeck]] and [[Cliff Edwards\|Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards]]. On April 15, 1923, Smeck appeared, playing the ukulele, in "The Wizard of the Strings", a [[short film]] made in the [[Lee DeForest\|DeForest]] [[Phonofilm]] sound-on film process, and in 1926 appeared in a short film "His Pastimes", made in the [[Vitaphone]] sound-on-disc process.<ref>{{cite book \| last = Whitcomb \| first = Ian