Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-15
Y. \. 6. A. SEASON
COURSE Is CHOSEN.
Six Numbers For Annual Enter
tainments Of Association Sc
lected by Committee
FREDERICK WARDE is ON
Eminent Trasedian, Formerly Of
Warde and James, shakespearean
Exponents, Heads the. List kath-
arine Ridseway Company Again
Chosen, Also Richmond P. Hobsony

Six numbers, two lectures, two en-
tertainments and two musicals, max
ing up the annual entertainment course
OF the Railroad Y. NJ. G. A for next
winter. were chosen by the association
committee Monday night. The course
is considered by the committee to be
one of the best, If not the best, ever
offered by the association. AT least It
is one Of the most expensive, and unde-
niably some of the numbers stand very
high in their class.
The date for the opening of the
course, or the entertainment which will
be the opening number, also the sub
jects Of the lectures, have not yet been
selected. The opening. however. will
probably come late in October.
Probably coming first, from a stand
point Of merit, and because of his long
and successful stage career, is Fred
.erick Warde. the former tragedian. who
for. years was with Louis James in the
presentation of Shakespearean plays,
especially his tragedies. Warde and
James appeared d number Of times at
the Odeon and were especially We'll
known to patrons of that play house.
Their last appearance was in The
Tempest four years ago. Mr.. Warde
is now on the lyceum platform in lee
ture -recitals of Shakespeare and his
plays. HE presents recitals of the
plays, Hamlet Macbeth" The
Merchant Of Venice" and Julius Cae-
sar, impersonating every character,
with comments on The Wit and Wis
dom Of Shakespeare's Fools, The
Women of Shakespeare. Shakes
peare an Apostle Of Christianity" and
shakespeare and His Plays. Mr..
Warde is ciassed among the entertain
ers. 4, i5ss
b The other entertainment viii be the
katherine Ridgeway Company Miss
Ridgeway and her company delighted
an audience here last winter, and it
was chiefly because Of the large NUM-
Der of requests that she be. chosen
again, that she was selected. She will
have with her pianist and soloist.
Z The lecture will include Richmond
Pearson Hobson, formerly Of the Unit
ed States navy, who acquired mucn
fame and notoriety because of his part
in the Merrimac sinking incident in the
entrance to the harbor of Santiago,
Cuba, during the Spanish American
war. John Temple Graves. of Atlanta,
Ga, will be the other lecturer. Mr..
Hobson will probably lecture on some
subject pertaining to the navy. Mr..
Graves is editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. Attic he has repertoire Of
a half dozen or more lectures, the one
on The Last Hope of the Negro, will
doubtless be given here. His other
lectures are "a Reunited Country
The Reign of the Dernag rogue" The
New Woman and the Old and Aaron
Burr. .l
The musical numbers are the Colon
ial Octette, of Boston, and the Earnest
Gamble Concert Company The former
is an organization Of four men and four
women. who appear in colonial COS
tunes. Their program is arranged for
male and female quartet numbers, and
selections for the octette.. Either this
musical or Mr.. Warde will be the open
ing number. The Gamble company,
which Mr.. Gamble, a barytone singer,
heads, is made UP Of Sam Henderson,
pianist, and Miss Verna Leone Page,
yiolinist.