Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1916 — OPENING CHAUTAUQUA NUMBERS THURSDAY [ARTICLE]

OPENING CHAUTAUQUA NUMBERS THURSDAY

Large Crowd Present at Afternoon and Evening Sessions—Fine Music and Addresses. The Junior Chautauqua work is for the high school pupils and young people of that age, with volley ball and games for them. Attention is called to this to counteract the impression that the Junior work is only for small children. There are games and story hours for the latter, but especial attention is devoted to the older young people. Program This Evening. / 7:30 p. m. “The Taming of the Shrew,”* a Shakespearean comedy by The Arden Players. 8:30 p. m. “The Village Storekeeper,” Nels Darling, who knows how to entertain. The opening numbers of the Lincoln Chautauqua were given Thursday. A large crowd was on hand in both the afternoon and evening sessions. The features of the first day’s entertainment were a musical entertainment by the Strang-Coleman company; Baldy in Kilts with his Bagpipes, a concert, Scotch and Irish songs, a light comedy sketch entitled “Marrying Off Mary,” by the StrangColeman company, and addresses by Booth Lowery, the southern wit, both afternoon and evening. His afternoon address was entitled “Tolerable Good People,” and the evening “Simon Says Wig-Wag.” (Every one of the numbers of the first day were well received and greatly appreciated by the audiences. The musical numbers were of extremey high class throughout, and Rensselaer is certainly fortunate in securing such talent as is represented in the Lincoln company. “The Southern Wit,” as Booth Lowrey is known' throughout America, certainly is a true description of this humorist. Mr. Lowrey kept vis audiences in an uproar throughout his address. Although his lectures are of a humorous nature, he carries along with his humor “ah undercurrent of real life philosophy,” as he calls it, and his lectures carry a lot of good sound advice. Nels Darling is said to be a man who says just what he thinks, and in his lectures today will tell you what lie thinks of your town, your merchants, and the community in general. If he likes you he will tell you; if he doesn’t, he will tell- you. Rensselaer people should not fail to hear this wonderful man.