The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
Y. M. c. A. ENTERTAINER
COURSE INCLUDES SOME NO.
TABLE PEOPLE
SCHUMANN- HEINK AND
CAMPANARI WILL SING
Lieut.. Hobson, of Kissing Fame, Is
Among the Lecturers, and Opie Read
Will Tell Funny Stories and Give
Readings - Brilliant Season Is
Planned by Association.

The Y. M. G. A. has announced it's
fifth annual entertainment course of
ten events. While it has been the
aim of the managers of the association
each year to improve a little on the
course of the previous season, it will
be hard indeed to better the series
which has been mapped out for the
coming winter and spring.
Somewhat obviously the manage
ment engaged Nordica,. one of the most
expensive of the great opera singers
last season. The citizens of st. Paul
showed their appreciation by crowd
ing the Peoples church, and this fact
so encouraged it that this year 1t de-
cided to risk engaging two great op-
cratic singers, Schumann-H eink and
Campanari. By special arrangement the
management of the Grau Opera COM
pany will releace Campanari for
brief concert tour in January, and
Schumann- Heink will close they. M.
G. A. course, coming the latter part of
April, after her engagement with the
Grau Opera company has expired.
Each will be accompanied by a pianist.
Two Notable Concerts.
There will be two other notable con-
certs. One will consist of four solo
lists: Hamlin, tenor; Furbeck, con-
traltO; Seeboeck, pianist, and Van
Oordt, violinist.. 1t will be remember
ed that George Hamlin has been re-
peatedly engaged by both the Schubert
and the Choral clubs for their ora
torios. The others three musicians who
accompany him, though perhaps not
so well known in st. Paul, are all of
high rank.
The fourth concert will consist of a
triple Quartette confused of leading
church choir singers of Chicago.
Last spring these young women de-
termined to make a series of short
trips between Sundays, giving con-
certs to pay expenses, and returning
each Saturday to fulfill their engage
ments in Chicago churches.
Hess-Burr Directs.
In order to assure the success of the
enterprise they placed themselves I'M
der the instruction of the we'll known
teacher and coach, Nine. Hess Burr.
After first securing her consent, they
assumed her name, styling themselves
the Hess Burr club. 1t is safe to say
that no musical event of the season
promises to give more genuine pleas
ure to both musical critics and large,
popular audiences than the appear
ance of these twelve talented sing
ers.
AS usual there will be four lectures
among the ten events. Two of these
lecturers have already been engaged.
1t has been the aim Of the committee
not only to secure famous orators, but
to make sure that they should be men
of eminence in other respects.
Hobson VIII Lecture.
Lieut.. Hobson and Gov Taylor are
both men of this stamp. Hobson's lee
ture, 1.-The Nation and the Navy has
attracted the largest audiences of the
season at the great Eastern chau-
tauQuas.
The other two lecturers Of the series
are not yet secured, as the men want
ed are still on their vacations. But
it can be quite confidently relied upon
that Rabbi Hirsh and either Fitzhugh
Lee or John Temple Graves will be en-
gagged.
For one of the two remaining events
the committee have selected a purely
literary evening consisting of three IA
nous authors and entertainers, Opie
Read, Wallace Bruce Amsbary and
Charles Eugene Banks. For four sue
ceSSive seasons the association has en-
gagged one man to occupy the entire
evening with the Interpretation of
of these events has encouraged the en-
gaging of these three entertainers at
a much greater expense.
Some Wizards, Too.
1t is universally admitted that those
courses, which have come to stay,
have based their permanency upon
judicious mingling of wholesome
amusement with what is serious and
instructive. To meet this demand the
committee has fortunately secured
Richie, the noted magician, and Hall,
the musical wizard, who plays as well
on a row of discarded tomato cans
as many musicians do on a banjo or
violin.
Associated with these successful en-
tertainers will be Mrs. Richie and Miss
Blanche Neal. The former assists her
husband in his Straightforward il1u-
sions, and the latter adds much to the
entertainment by recitations and
funny character sketches.