Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — TALENT SELECTED FOR OUR COMING LYCEUM COURSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALENT SELECTED FOR OUR COMING LYCEUM COURSE

Atlracllons For Soisoi of 1916-17 Inaoustsd. ALL TASTES CONSIDERED. Local Committoe Provides Select Year's Program at Popular Prices. With more than 15.000 Lyceum courses in the United States, averaging five numbers each and attended annually by 10,000,000 people, the supply of clean, winter’s entertain* ment in this country is enjoying a substantia] and healthy growth. Thousands of towns and cities have learned from experience that a Lyceum course is beneficial to community life in many ways. Only entertainment which is worth while can grow and- stand the test of years as the Lyceum movement has done. For the coming fall and winter in our community a choice program has been selected by the local auspices, and tickets will be sold at popular prices. Following is the first number of. the course: • THE IRlb CONCERT COMPANY. The iris Concert Company is composed of Miss Laura M. Magill, reader; Miss Louise Beaman, contralto soloist, and Miss Lnla-Schneidt. pianist and accompanist. Their program takes the form of a recital, and it is a recital well worth while. Miss Beaman toured with this organization in the East ern States and sang with great success in “Faust.” “Carmen,” "Il Trovatore,” “Tales of Hoffman,” "Butterfly” and “Lucia.” A successful api>earance was made by this singer last winter at the Metropolitan O|>era House, Philadelphia, as a member of the Shubert Quartet. With the Wagner Concert Company she was featured as soloist, singing “Adriano.” aria from “Rienzi,” with Symphony Orchestral accompaniment. in Brooklyn. Since coming to Chicago Miss Beaman has sung at the South Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago Woman’s Club, Quadrangle Club of the University of Chicago and many private receptions. Critics are united in praise of her work and readily recommend her as a reliable artist and capable soloist for concert, opera, church or oratorio. She possesses a dramatic contralto voice extensive in range and of rich sympathetic quality. Miss Beaman for two years was soloist at St. Paul's Church of Brooklyn and was afterward engaged to sing in the Church of the

Puritans, Fifth Avenue, New York, a position she resigned to accept a contract with the Aborn Opera Company. Miss Lula-Schneidt, pianist and accompanist, was educated in Europe and shows the results of her work of long and excellent training. Last season she appeared with the Bohemian Orchestra over the Redpath five day Chautauqua circuit, beginning in Mississippi and ending In Illinois. On this program she played a solo each day, in addition to her work with the orchestra. Concerning Miss Magill, Florence L McCracken, department of platform reading, Columbia College of Expression, Chicago, says: “Miss Laura Magill is a reader of unusual ability, having a beautiful, well modulated voice and a charming personality. Her dramatic interpretations are vital and ring true. Her humor is delightfully clever.” Ella Wilson Smith, department of contemporaneous drama, Columbia College of Expression, Chicago, has the

following to say: "Miss uaura Magill is a reader of unusual ability and charm. She has so winsome a personality and so gracious a manner that she is en rapport with her audiences the moment she comes before them. Her keen sense of humor, her fine discrimination in characterization, her art in visualizing her scenes and her exceptional emotional power enable her to carry her hearers with her through every shade of feeling that she experiences in interpreting the varied selections in her repertoire. To hear Miss Magill is to capitulate to her art and charm.” M. E. church, Thursday evening, 8:15. Single admission 35c; season ticket $ 1 for the five numbers.