Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-02
Six Numbers Chosen by Com
mittee to Make Up Annual
Entertainment Course
CONSIDERED
TALENT
The Committee Selects Two Musical
Numbers, Two Entertainers and Two
Lecturers-Elias Day, Impersonator,
and the Katherine Rdseway Concert
Company, Have Appeared Here.

The annual entertainment course oil
the Railroad Y. NJ c. A.. which WIZ
be given during the fall and winter
has been chosen by the committee
which has the selection in charge. The
committee has selected six numbers.
two of which are musical organiza-
tons, two entertainers, including a
magician and an mpersonator. ana
two lecturers. The opening date mas
not been fixed, but it will probably be
late in October or early in November,
The place where the entertainments
will be given has not been decided on,
but the Odeon will doubtless be chos-
en-.
The opening number will probably be
the Bostonian Orchestra, of eighteen
women players, under the direction or
Belle Yeaton Renfrew. Included In the
membership of the orchestra are five
instrumental soloists, and brass
quartet. This is the most expensive
number chosen, and costs the associa-
ton 5000.
The other musical number will be
the Katherine Ridgeway Concert Conn
pany, of four people. Miss Ridgeway,
who is dramatic reader and imper-
senator, heads the company. She has
with her MIR. u S. Kerr, basso, MISS
Nellie Mae Brewster, soprano, and Mr..
Larnberson, pianist. Miss Ridgeway
appeared on former Y. Nj. e. A.
course in 1899. Miss Brewster was u
member of the Bostonian Grand Opera
Company during the season of 1901.
The entertainers are Marc, the ma
gician, and entertainer, and Elias Day
and Mrs. Oranna Truitt-D Day, his wife.
Marc, besides giving an entertainment
Of magic, Is a musician, and carries
with him three assistants, who with
Marc, make up saxophone quartet.
Marc has the reputation of being the
leader of entertainers in his class
working under lyceum bureaus. Elias
Day, who is a character impersonator'
is very we'll known here, and is par-ex-
cellent in his class. In 1902 he delighted
an audience which heard him here
Since then he has married, and has
with him Mrs. Day, an impersonator,
whose speciality Is the delineation OF
child characters.
The two lecturers are DR.. Herbert L.
Willett, of the University of Chicago.
and Congressman Charles e. Little
field, of Maine. Dr. Willett is of the
divinity school of the university and Is
said to be a most excellent orator. He
has a number of lectures but the one
to be delivered here has not been Sc
lected.
Congressman Littlefield, is of Rock
land, Me-, and is one Of the strongest
anti trust members of the house o.
representatives. He was formerly a
member of the Maine legislature, was
later attorney general and at the death
of Nelson Dingley, author of the Ding
ley bill he was chosen his successor.
In 1899 he was reelected. His lecture
will deal with the trusts, but the sub
ect is not known
The entire course costs the associa-
ton $3.50, and the committee believes
that it has selected numbers which,
while perhaps not ranking above all
others in their class, are uniformly ex-
cellent. 1t endeavored to choose that
which would please various tastes.