Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-24
A Meritorious Lecture Course.


tertainment Association met the re
preventative Of the Slayton Lyceum
Bureau last Thursday evening and
selected a course of six attractions
for the coming winter. The talent
is collectively the most famous ever
brought to the city. The first en-
tertainment is the Banda Rosa,
Italy's world famed Red Band. This
organization of thirty three members
took the first prize at the European
band contest held at the Genoa
Qtaly) Exposition. They have played
for nearly every crownedhead across
the waters. Signor Sorentino, the
director, wears decorations present
ed to him at these royalty concerts.
The band contains fourteen of the
soloists who have been with the
company from the beginning. In
this country the Banda Rosa has
been received as the greatest band
thai, eyer toured the United States.
Their style ofemusic is particularly
attractive to Americans, it is so full
of dash and spirit. This makes both
Wagnerian and rag-time music
equally enjoyable when interpreted
| by Sorentino. In numerous instances
audiences have risen to their feet,
wrought to tremendous enthusiasm
by the band playing Way Down
South in Dixie or "Whistling Ru
fus". At the present time the Banda
Rosa is giving daily concerts at the
Masonic Temple in Chicago.
The other concert on the course is
given by another Italian artist, Sig
nor Angelo Patricolo and company
of assisting artists. No Pianist has
ever toured America and entertained
the masses so much and so well as
Patricolo. He has happy faculty
Of selecting for his program classical
music that displays marvellous skill
and at the same time contains real
melody. In this way Patricolo has
} been able to please both popular and
= educated tastes, an unusual tlllng
among concert pianists. Miss Rose
Reichard is the violinist with Patri-
colo. She is very well known ii
this state, her home being in De'
!. Moines. The remaining member.
are Mr.. Harlan Briggs, basso, ane
/. Miss Retz, reader.
Two numbers on the course will be
I. popular entertainers, Ross Crane
of Philadelphia is a cartoonist ane
clay modeler. He is humorist who
pleases the artistic eye, makes gooe
| joke and, withal, knows how to sus
tain his dignity. He make vol
laugh but is never silly.
Mr.. Elias Days entertainment
a will be one Of the greatest treats Oh
the course. He is a characters
s and is decidedly unique He dis
cusses the various methods Of telling
s stories and illustrates each. Full,
half the evening is devoted t,
sketches and limitations in whicl
Mr.. Day puts on makeup 1t i
! very interesting to the audience t
see just how an actor goes to worl
7 in his dressing-room. M. Day wa
d on the big Chicago Y. NJ. G. A
Il course last winter and has been re
> engaged for the coming season. Nh
S Day filled 4S return dates last yeal
$ The two lectures are exceedingl
attractive. Frank R. Robinson
6 the best illustrated lecturer on tn
q platform. His moving pictures an
e. views are marvels Of beauty. Thl
1t wonderful man not only has geniu
te to get pictures which the people Ill,
to see, but he is also an orator who's
4 eloquence on descriptive and pair
of otto subjects has begotten him
wide reputation. The audience vo
l. ed Mr.. Robinson's lecture the mo
4 satisfactory on their course at IL
Chicago YIN. G. A.
IS The celebrity is General John
Gordon, the commander of the Co
u federate Veterans. His subie'
i will be "The Last Days Of the Co
e federacy." Gen. Gordan is SO we
[. known that he needs no introductic
4 to the people Of Manchester. Fl
Z several years there has been repea
ID ed demand to have him on Il
course, but the committee has n
OF felt able to pay for such a hie
~ priced attraction. Now it is fe
Of that the safest financial plan is
select what the public wants even
s. it is more expensive. General &c
IN den is full of fire and his style
oratory has Southern warmth, das
ne brilliancy and force not often to
n found in Northern speakers.
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