Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — LYCEUM DATES FOR THIS YEAR. [ARTICLE]

LYCEUM DATES FOR THIS YEAR.

Yl ill Open Monday Evening, October 7th, With the Euclid Male Quartet. 1; The course this year will consist of ■ five numbers, and the price will be $1:00 so rthe course if the committee can dispose of two hundred season tickets. Should the sale of tickets be less than two hundred it will benecessary to charge $1.25. From all reports the sale of tickets is very favorable, and the two hundred will probably be sold. Single admission 35c. The talent is the very best ana will no doubt please the people. There will 1 be two musical numbers, two lectures and a reader. The course will open Monday evening, October 7th, at the M. E. church, with the Euclid Male Quartette.

The Euclid Male Quartette is in the filth year of ts organization and has made for itself an enviable reputation on the concert platform. Too much stress can not be laid upon the fact that during this time the quartette has retained the present personnel and thess years of association and constant study and work together coupled with signal individual ability have produced an ensemble which gives the greatest satisfaction and is remarkable for its nicety of blend and balance. Tneso rour men re college-bred—an graduates of Antioch College. Their repertoire is extensive anil varied, consisting of classical selections. both sacred and secular, folk soßgs, popular ballads, plantation melodies, sentimental, pathetic and humoruos numbers. Comedy encores I with action, are a feature, as are the vocal solos rendered by the various members of the organization. The other numbers of the course are as follows: SYLVESTER A. LONG, Sylvester A. Long, author of the popular Life Problem Lectures spent eight years as a high school and college teacher. He has other business interests, but is now giving most of his time to the platform' because he considers the Lyceum the* most Democratic and purely Ameti-J can expression of the general uplift movement of the age. He is a man full of new ideas and intensely interested in the practical problems of life. A thorough education (Mt. Morris College, Chicago University, special training for the Lyceum and extensive travel, together with Lis experience on the platform) enable him to serve the most exacting audience. MACINNES NEILSON. Among the younger men who have given themselves to the Lyceum platform wtthin recent years is Maclnnes Neilson. By virtue of a combination oT rare gifts he has come into high favor and made a position for himself at once secure and estimable.

Mr. Neilson is a Scotchman, and with the Britons of the North he lived till the completion of a successful educational course at Glasglow University. He is a scholar and familiar with history and the best in fiction and poetry, 1 his lectures are characterized by a gracefulness of diction a clearness of expression and a directness of appeal. Classical and forceful, his word-pictures, full of nature, are yet never above his hearers. His thought is clear, real, human; and clothed in the vestment of scholarly* simplicity, is admired by the cultured and uncultured. Mr. Nielson’s Scotch accent is a delight, and there is a peculiar plaintivehess in the voice that makes his appeals irresistable.. With it there is a constant interplay otfpathosi, wit and humor, yet Mr. Nielson treats no subject trivially. He is distinctly a man with a message, and a message that in fearless and impassioned speech, burns itself into the minds and hearts of his auditors. SARAH MILDRED WILMER. It is not too much to say that Sarah Mildred Willmer in the quality of her work now ranks In the Lyceum where Sarah Burnhardt ranks ceum where Sarah Bernhardt ranks in the theatrical profession. In her ability to interpret the masterly literary productions from the platform she has no superior. In temperament or emotional powei Y the ability to move an audience to laughter or tears, Miss WiMmer is without an equal. No task of interpretation has been too great for her and no audience however great the expectation, ever has gone away disappointed. THE BOHANNANS. Ord Bahannan, tenor and imper-

sonator, brings to the Lyceum platform a store of culture and experience acquired through association with stock and road theatrical companies in America, followed by six years abroad, where his robust tenor voice was schooled by Lamperti, Sbriglia and Jean De Reszke. Mr. Bohannan has toured Germany with the Dresden Mixed Quartet, in concert and oratorio, and appeared wtyh Stadt Theatre Company of Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, in Opera. This artist’s peculiar adaptability for the Lyceum platform is probably best illustrated by the following kindly criticism: “Equipped with a beautiful resonant tenor voice, a fund ot spontaneous humor, perfect knowledge of the dialects and a deep sympathetic understanding of the world’s pathos, Mr. Bohannan is indeed a prince of entertainers.”

Jean Bohannan, pianist and soprano, has acquired international distinction as a Composer, several or her songs having found a ready market in England and Germany as well as in America. Those who are familiar with “To You,” “The Plaidie,” “The Time To Smile,” and numerous other secular songs, may learn with surprise that this unusually versatile musician has over 100 compositions (mostly sacred) to her credit, which have been accepted for publication.

She has written a thirty-minute song cycle and a massive male chorus of “Captain! My Captain!” As if all this were insufficient, Jean Bohannan has climbed to the rank seldom attained by her sex—that of successful organist, leaving one of the largest organs in Pittsburg, that of the East Liberty Presbyterian church, to identify herself with the Lyceum work. —Advertisement.