Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — WILL LET AUDIENCE CHOOSE TWO NUMBERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL LET AUDIENCE CHOOSE TWO NUMBERS

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.

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.