Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — Are You a Chautauqua Booster? See What Is Coming to Us. [ARTICLE]

Are You a Chautauqua Booster? See What Is Coming to Us.

In a few weeks the chautauqua will be here. A program of unusual strength has been provided and as such merits the interest and support of all classes of citizens. Six big days, twelve unusually complete sessions, with double numbers at every session, and a change of talent each day. To those holding season tickets the cost of a concert or lecture is but eight cents. Note the musical features: Bland’s Chautauqua and Orchestra, in band and grand orchestral concert programs; Baity Strong, with his bagpipes and imitations of Harry Lauder, accompanied by a fine musical comedy; the Arden Company in high-class vocal concert; the Gretna Party, instrumentalists in costume: the Chicago Artists’ Quartet; and the Hampton Court Singers. Then note the ■ exceptional entertainers : Charles Taggart, the best of his type in chautauqua work. Miss McDonald, Canadian entertainer; Miss Wickes, charming reader; the Shakespear comedy, “Taming of the Shrew,” enacted by the Arden Players in costpme, with full state settings, and William Sterling Battis in his portrayal of Dickens characters."

Then turn to the lecturers:, Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson, political leader and statesman. This lecture alone is worth every penny the season ticket costs you; Nels Darling, business man and community expert from Oklahoma, who talks in an entertaining and stimulating way to the merchant and his customer on their mutual relations. Booth Lowrey, full cf southern wit and satire: Mohammad Ali, of India; Mrs. Zehner, of Texas, Who has for years delighted chautauqua audiences with her plain, hard-hitting talk, and Pitt Parker, philosopher, wit, cartoonist and clay modeler. Last, but not least, the young woman junior supervisor will be a revelation to fathers and mothers, showing them the possibilities of mental and moral development through a proper control of the play hours of their children. In all there are fifty-one highly talented people on the big six-day program. This feast of good things, eighteen sessions in all, is yours for s2.oo—the price of the season ticket. You would pay that much for a single theatre ticket in the city. Youths’ tickets, 8 to 15 years, SI.OO. Children under 8, accompanied by their parents free. Tickets are transferable.