Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — PLAY FESTIVAL BEFORE CHAUTAUQUA OPENING [ARTICLE]

PLAY FESTIVAL BEFORE CHAUTAUQUA OPENING

Something New This Year Provided By the Lincoln Chautauqua For Children and Grown-Ups. Miss Corinne Landgraf, the junior supervisor who is sent out by the Lincoln Chautauqua System, will be in Rensselaer all the day before the opening of the chautauqua. Miss Landgraf will have charge of the play festival that will be given the night before the opening of the chautauqua. The play festival will be free to every person in town, and all those between the ages of 5 and 18 years are especially urged to be present. The success of this play festival will largely rest with the local supervisor’s success in getting the children and grown-ups out to it. This may be done by personal invitation, phone calls and announcements through' the Sunday schools and public schools. The morning classes are open to every child or grown person holding a season ticket of their own. The week’s program is as follows: Every morning, 8 to 9 o'clock, the teachers’ training class. This class is for teachers, mothers and young people interested in playground work. The folk dances and games suitable for use in the school and home will be taught. Each morning will be devoted to the games and folk dances of a different nation. Suggestions for programs for specials days will be given in this clas§ also. 9 to 10 o’clock. sth to Bth graders, in team games, such as volley ball, captain ball, tennis, baseball and folk games. 10 to 11 p. m. Ist to 4th graders, in school and play-ground game*, sense training games and folk games. Every afternoon, during the lecture, stories and games for all children under 10 years of age. In this class special attention will be paid to sense training games, singing and rythmic games, finger plays for the tiny tots, and folk games. J On the last day of the chautauqua, the children under the direction of the junior supervisor, will give a play: “The Festival of the Nations,” in which they will play folk games learned. during the week. This play is to represent the coming together in America of all nationalities, and the contribution that each makes to recreative life. And at last the amalgamation of these races and their customs into one great people. Americans living at harmony with each other and with one great aim, the development of a stronger and better people, more able to bear the burdens

and do the work of their places in life, cheerfully, efficiently, unselfishly, and to the ultimate good of his neighbor, his community, his country. Miss Corinne Landgraf and W. E. Hightower will have charge of this Play Festival.