Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — Shuberts Delighted Audience At Second Lecture Number. [ARTICLE]

Shuberts Delighted Audience At Second Lecture Number.

The unfavorable weather was not sufficient to prevent a large attendance at the second lecture course number Wednesday evening and those in attendance were rewarded by a splendid program. The members of the Shubert company are Misses Mara W. Conover and Ella M. Clark, and Messrs. John G. Hedgcoxe and Glenn Wells. All are young people who have spent several years in musical and dramatic schools and they are individually very talented and seem fortunately assembled for entertainment purposes.

. Miss Conover is a dramatic reader of such pleasing style that every appearance was greeted with much applause. Grace attractive, voice superb and a winsome manner that make her rendition of new stories impart the most unique features in a manner that delights all. In a three-act monologue she was very clever, but probably her most appreciated number was that of “Mlle. Prudence,” in which Mr. Wells also played. The feminine part is French dialect, at which she was perfectly at home, and had this little sketch been the only number on the program, the audience would have been delighted. Miss Clark has a contralto voice and her songs were well received and especially her parts in the quartette singing. She was very clever in a little sketch entitled “The Husband’s Mistake,” with which the program concluded.

Mr. Hedgcoxe has a high, clear tenor voice and plays splendidly on the piano, sharing that part of the program with Mr. Wells, who also plays pleasingly. Mr. Wells excells as a dramatist, combining comedy, tragedy, light and heavy opera in a manner that shows marked versatility. As the mistaken husband he pleased and amused and as a consequence was liberally applauded. Taken all in all the Schuberts were one of the most appreciated of all entertainment companies ever sent to Rensselaer by a lyceum bureau.