Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — Page 6

LINCOLN CHAUTAUQUA Rensselaer,'lndiana Beginning July 6, 1917

Uses Bottle polls In Lecture

“They Take the Place of Real People,” Says Mrs. ? Paulsen, Who Appears at the Chautauqua

THE following story concerning the work of Mrs. Paulsen, who will lecture £er£ the las Of the Chautauqua, was published in the Ly. ceum Magazine last November; . . •‘On the stagq beside Hd?n B. labisen when she lectures stands a table JQVered with rows Of Solis about six inches high. Each doll is differently costumed, some in light and some in dark. There are little higher shelves bearing more dolls, so that the table is a pyramid of scores of dolls, “You are v£?v attentive to the lecture, and it is worth your attention. Even the wiggliest children of the wiggliest Chautauqua front row are attentive. All of us are waiting and watching for Helen B. to get over to the dolls. “Then she takes them "one by*one and shows they are characters in Mother Goose. One is Prince Charming, one is Bo Beep. one is Jack the Pipers Son, one is King Cole, and so on. Each typifies a Certain kind of child life. As she explains them she bolds the same-close'attention. “It is a fine way to make a lecture interesting. We have been wonderingWhy Otbej lectures Muid pot be illustrated with things without infringing upon lifS. Kulsen : s copyright. , 0 “The ‘bottle dolls’ wereAvorked out by Mrs. Paulsen along the ideas of a woman she Wil's us Is very wonderful-Mrs. Lowe-of Salina, Kan.-so wonderful is' she that Dr. Forbush, the boy specialist, has written two books .about her work. “ ‘They take the place of real people.’ says Mrs. I aulsen. I use them instead of people because some things I say would not be very flattering to people and would hurt their pride. -But my dolls do not-care.

Leonora Allen, Soprano, Coming

MISS ALLEN of the Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company, who will sing here the last day of the Chautauqua, has toured the country several times as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and has sung In concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Club and the Apollo Club of Chicago. The Minneapolis Tribune said: “Leonora Allen was the soloist in the ‘Elijah’ performance. Her singing was full of dramatic expression, and her art continues to be admired more and more after her many appearances here. She is a young singed who combines a beautiful voice with excellent musical taste.” ’ ' v ;C' The Chicago Tribune said: “Miss Allen is possessed of a voice 6t more than usual beauty and sympathy, easily produced and gratifying and round in tone form. She sings freely and confidently, enunciates so that every word Is Intelligible and acts with a calmness and composure that are exceptional.”— Comment by Critic Dunn on Miss Alien'll Singing in “Romeo and Juliet.” The Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company includes Van Vliet, the Dutch cellist, who first won fame a few years ago in concerts with Tetrazzini and Mary Garden. ‘ It also Includes Albert Lindquest, Chicago’s twenty-five-year-<Hd tenor, and Miss Mudge, one of Chicago’s best pianists and accompanists. They will he here the last day of the Chautauqua. \ . •“ * • <. . ■ - • . .1

HELEN B. PAULSEN AND HER DOLLS.

MISS WILLIS.

ic*. - ■ .4. ' Mies Will is pvfeesses the most charming personality of any interpreter of plays on the Chautauqua and lyceum platform. lieoause of this valuable asset ahd her dramatic skill, it matters' but little which of the powerful plays she will present, as her work is always the acme of dramatic art. • She will be here the third night of the Chautauqua.

JESSIE IZIL BEERS.

r Jessie Izil Beers of Chicago will appear with the band both afternoon and evening as a soprano soloist. She is a student of Greta Allum. noted in'musical circles of Chicago and the middle west. She has also studied under the celebrated Sandor Radanovits and others and has been in concert work for several years. She has a beautiful lyric voice of quite remarkable range And will feature in groups of old songs as well as in some of the heavier numbera She has a charming personality. Though her voice is not big, it has remarkable carrying power, possessing a rare sweetness of tone which cannot bat please. _ _

> K ‘T'-NS p-ro-hl -ed with rays E .f light, burning h les through .* . a_plfi’v of iron with fire built with a <■»!.■■ of iee. and the famous Bremau Monorail car that defies .grav-J ity. Th -e are some' of the things demonstrated in Reno Welbourn's wonderful lecture. ‘J-odern Miracles.’ It is as j

ALBERT LINDOUEST TENOR, COMING

One of th? bigeest sensations in Chi- j cago music circles at the present time , is Albert Lindquest. the twenty-five- j year-old tenor. In 1911, while Lindquest was studying law in the University of Chicago, the celebrated Italian 1 tenor. Allessapdrg Bypci, gave a recital 1 at the university. That night Lindquest was singing on the porchof a fraternity house. Bonci heard him and '-immediately hunted die singer up and ■ said, “You have the most promising I tenor voice I have heard in Agierit-a.’’ That befctuniSjp Lindquest gS?S up the studj- of law and turned his attention tg the study of voice. At the time the European war broke out he was studying in Berlin. In trying to leave the country he was arrested as a spy. but finally succeeded in making his way back home. Mr. Lindquest has sung in the large cities of America, at the Panama Ex-

position, with the St Paul Symphony Orchestra and has toured the country ithree times as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the most prominent orchestra in the United States. The Minneapolis Tribune recently said this about “Mr. Lindquest api>eared for the third time as soloist with the orchestra and created a sensat on.' He has a gloriously pure, thrillimg voice." A short time ago he gave a recital in Orchestral Hall. Chicago. The admission price was 52.50. Mr. Lindquest comes the last day of the Chautauqua with the Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company.

“MUSIC Is evidently a necessity of our existence, and -the more the taste for it is developed in its highest form the greater will be our appreciation of the good qfid beautiful."

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Welbourn, the Science Man

strange as a page torn out of the ‘Ara- j biaii Nights/ as interesting as a fairy | taler and proves anew that truth is j stranger than fiction. Reno Welbourn ■ made the dreams of Jules Verne be-1 come realities' before the eyes of his audience and nothing seemed longer to : be impossible." —The New York World. Mr. Welbourn was recently made a

This is Chautauqua Season. It is worth while to gait work d little early in the afternoon for the sake of attending the Chautauqua. We need the inspiration and the fresh viewpoint that it brings to us. We need the wholesome laughs—the hearty enjoyment that will do much to lighten the next day’s work. The Chautauqua is a form of entertainment designed especially for country people, and the opportunity it. brings is one that it will do us good to take advantage of.—Editorial From Prairie Farmer July 29, 1916.

WILL LET AUDIENCE CHOOSE TWO NUMBERS

The Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company, which will be here the last day of Chautauqua, will render two numbers in their „evening program which will be selected by the audience. A box will be kept at the gate all week, and ticket holders may write on a piece of paper the names of their favorite numbers. The last day these slips will be checked up, and the two pieces receiving the most votes will be given as part of the evening concert The company is composed of Albert Lindquest, tenor, of Chicago; Leonora Allen, soprano; Cornelius Van Vliet, the Dutch ’cellist, and Miss Mudge, pianist. Lindquest has toured the country

three times as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, has sung to crowded houses in Orchestral Hall, Chicago, and the past spring has been doing solo work with the New York Oratorio Society. The Italian tenor Bonci, who discovered Lindquest, said that he has the most promising tenor voice In America. He is twenty-five years old. Miss Allen, soprano, also has toured the country a number of times as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and has done solo work in concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Apollo Club of Chicago. Van Vliet, the Dutch ’cellist, came from Rotterdam in 1011 and within a few months was doing aolo work in concerts with Tetrazzini and Mary Garden. .. Mias Mudge of Chicago is aecomon tha niauA.

member of the New York Academy of Science because of his Chautauqua work in popularizing things that are usually of the laboratory. In the above picture he is shown knocking down a pile of blocks by means of .a shadow. Mr. Welbourn wil| deliver his science lecture here the fifth night of the Chautauqua.

CORNELIUS VAN VLIET.

Cornelius Van Vliet, the Dutch ’cellist; came to this country from Rotterdam in 1911 and within a few months was playing in concerts with Tetrazzini and Mary Garden. Soon the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra took him on a tour as a soloist. Some New York and Chicago music critics have written him up in the papers as the greatest ’cellist in the country. When he played in St. Louis he played some of Fritz Kreisler’s compositions, and the GlobeDemocrat said he played them as well as the composer himself. He came directly from concert work in New York to play in the Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company during the present Chautauqua season. -Music critics of Chicago and New York describe his ’cello playing as being Railway between that of the virtuoso and the scholarly artist, one being the brilliant executant, the other the penetrating interpreter.

A MOTOR RUN BY MULE POWER.

Reno Weibourn, who lectures on science and performs experiments with apparatus on the stage, will be here the fifth day of the Chautauqua. One night up in lowa he had arranged his batteries and things to show the audience that a motor could be run by sound. “Now, this wheel will run very rapidly when the proper sound is made,” he told his audience. Just then a mule tied somewhere outside the tent began to pour forth a joyful noise. It happened to be just the right pitch to make the motor go, and the motor went. Weibourn usually makes the proper noise with a flute. This mule happened to sing the same note that Weibourn plays on the flute.

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