The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

course of Lyceum entertain
ments to be given at the Audi
forum during the coming win
ter season. And remarkable
feature in connection Herewith is that
still lower prices will prevail for sea-
son tickets than the unheard of low cost
OF the course last year.
The course consists OF ten entertain
rnents about equally divided among the
most popular lecturers and concert att
fractions obtainable in the Lyceum
field.
The tickets for the whole course viii
be one dollar each with the privilege of
reserving seats for each entertainment,
making the average cost of reserved
seats for each of the ten attractions but
ten cents each.
The price is put this low under the
belief that all Of the 200 season ticket
holders of last season will be glad to
take tickets this year and the popu-
larity of the course last year will have
the effect Of increasing the sale 80 per
cent this year, or possibly double 1t.
The Pipe Organ association will guar
antee that the entertainments will equal
If not exceed those OF last year in merit.
The course cost one dollar last year
with an additional charge Of one dollar
for reserved seats for the entire course,
which embraced y entertainments. This
year the purchasers of tickets may go
to Stansfield's drug store and have
seats reserved for the season without
extra charge on and after next Tues
day.
The course will open on Saturday, Oe-
tober 49, with the Bostonia Orchestra,
a company of 20 ladies with Miss Belle
1 YeatOn RenfrOW as conductor. A Hart
! ford Conn, paper recently said: Many
good things come to this city labelled
with the name of the capital of the COM
monWealth of Massa chusetts, in some
form or another, but no musical organ
ization has given more complete salts
/ faction to a large audience in this city
| than the Bostonia Orchestra. eonpos-
ed entirely Of women
On the same program with the
Bostonia Orchestra will appear Mart
King, a famous story teller, who is
also manager Of the company.
Friday November. 8, Col. H. W. J.
Ham, the humorous southern lee
turer, of Georgia, comes as the second
| number on the course. He is a rival
of Bob Taylor in h1mor, and his lee
lures are intensely interesting.
The third number of the course is
the temperance here of Opie Read,
who comes Thursday evening Nov. %.
tracts an audience without effort
The Sterling Jubilee singers are the
fourth entertainment OF the course,
coming Monday December g. This is
a new organization, but promises to
be up to the standard OF the Slayton
Jubilee singers who were on the
course last year lfs
The International Grand Concert
company comes on Thursday, Dec.
10 and is composed of the following:
The eminent English basso George
CHAMPION; Elisena Pallavicini, the dis
tinguished Italian violinist; Mary Pay
ton, the southern prirna donna and
Ward Lewis. pianist.
This company, for portion of their
program, give scenes from grand
opera in costume. and the remainder
of the program will be up to all the
requirements of the most fastidious
from an artistic standpoint, and pop
ular enough to win the interest of an5
ordinary audience
On Wednesday, January 80, Free
Emerson Brooks, the California poet
author and humorist will appear
Brooks is the author of pickett
Charge" which Henry Watterson says
is the greatest poem he ever heard
and the superior Of Tennyson's 1.-THE
Charge of the Light Brigade" Cen
eral Alter said of Mr.. Brooks: Call
fornia never does anything by halves
This is an original, not a chrome"
DR.. Guy Carlton Lee, the seventh
number on the course comes OF
Thursday. February "A. DR.. Lee wa
formerly a professor in Johns Hopkin
university, but he has been for sew
eral years one of the largest none,
winners on the lecture platform. Thi
means that he is about first in hi
class.
The Kathryn Ridgeway company
being the eighth number on tn
course. comes Monday, February 1s
Miss Ridgeway is one of the grea
: readers and her company includes
! Nellie Mae Brewster. a fine soprano
Z. S. Kerr, a popular basso; and MI
Lamberson, a pianist of no mean abil
ity.
: The Manning Glee club comes Wed
: nesday, March 18th. This is a "hum
: mer'' to quote Major Tom Anderson
1t is composed of ten solo singer
/ trained to the highest order of choru