Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-11
YIN. c. A. 1854
COURSE SELECTED
Most Expensive Talent Ever
Secured Fora Single Course
Is Under Contract
soRRENTINo's BANDA ROSA
Famous Italian Aggregation Will Open
the Course of Seven Numbers-Two
Concerts in Addition, One Enter
tainer and Three Lecturers-Prom-
ises to be Most Successful Course Yet.

The entertainment committee Of the
Railroad Y. M. C. A. met Wednesday
evening and decided upon the numbers
that will constitute the associations
entertainment course for the season OF
1904 The course will be by far the
most expensive one ever attempted by
SCREENINGS Banda Rosa, costing S40o.
When the Y. NJ C. "A. began it's enter
tainment work five or six years ago an
entire course only cost between $500
and $500
Last season was considered by the
patrons of the course the best the asso-
citation had furnished for a number of
years Even more expensive talent has
been secured for the coming season, by
$3.50 over last year. Despite the in
crease in cost the patrons will be fur
nished with tickets at the same price,
81 for the seven numbers. A slight in
crease will be made for reserved seats,
however.
The star number OF the course will
be the Banda Rosa, the famous ag-
gregation of thirty-five pieces that has
been preserved as an organization for
a great many years. Fourteen of Italy's
greatest soloists are with the band,
and Signor Sorrentino has been the
leader since 1889. In 1892 the band, at
the Genoa exposition contest won the
al inc Si "
peting organizations. 1t is the most
expensive booking on a regular course
ever made.
Another grand concert will be given
by Dr. Ion Jackson, the celebrated New
York tenor, assisted by Mabella Craw-
ford, contralto, and Fay Hill, accom-
PIANIST. DR.. jackson is the best known
American tenor in the east and aside
from his extensive musical work among
clubs, as soloist, he holds the highest
salaried church position of any tenor
in New York. Miss Crawford has been
at the head of the Mabelle Crawford
Concert Company for number of
years, and last season was supported
by Mrs. Adah MARYLAND Sheffield, the
soloist who appeared here with the
Thomas orchestra. She is especially
well known in Chicago for her work
with the Apollo Club and III Sherwood
recitals, and is prominent in the Phil
harmonic Clubs recitals at Mime
apolis.
Miss HILL the accompanies, has been
connected for several years with Audi
forum Conservatory at Chicago, as
teacher and recitalist.
The third concert of the course will
be a double number by Wallace Bruce
Amsbary, the celebrated story teller.
and the Wagner Ladies' Quartet. Mr..
Amsbary gives poetry and romance
from standard writer's and also some
of his own poems, that ran in Century
last year. The Wagner aggregation is
said to be one of the best ladies' quar-
tets in the concert field today Its en-
semble work is spoken of as being es-
pecially fine. With Mr.. Amsbary this
number will be a decidedly strong
one.
Mrs. Isabelle Garghill Beecher will
return to the city next year. She gave
one of the most delightful numbers on
last years course in the Interpretation
of "a Man Without a Country" and
other numbers. Next season she will
devote the entire evening to Barries
The Little Minister
Three lecturers have been secured in
the persons of Walter Wellman, the
well-known newspaper correspondent
and Arctic explorer; DR.. George c.
Lorimer, the famous Baptist divine of
Brooklyn; and Lou j. Beauchamp.
Their subjects have not yet been given.
Mr. Wellman, it is thought, will tell
OF his work in the frozen north, as he
has several lectures dealing with his
explorations that are popular DR.. Lor
inner has many popular lectures. among
which his Gladstone" and IA Lor
nance Of Preachers Life" stand out
prominently. Mr.. Beauchamp is a
humorist lecturer and has been promin-
ent in Chautauqua circles for number
Of years.
Next seasons course will probably
be given entirely in the odeon. The
dates have not yet been selected but
the opening number. the Banda Roosa,
will undoubtedly come in October.
W...l IS All Evper,enoaa