The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-30
tCHAMP CLARK FEATURES
ON AFTERNOON PROGRAM.
j Sixth Annual Event Closes
With Grand OratoricaI Con-
cert This Evening" Fine
Numbers Heard Yesterday.
Today's Program.

6.3U a. Hl.-ouuuty SShooi.
1890 a. M Lecture, Religions OF
India"-Mr. Ilahi-Baksh.
200 D. m.-Address-Hon Champ
Clark, of Missouri.
! $3.50 D. m.-Reading, "Ben Hur"-
! Montaville Flowers.
4:30 D. -Concert-Hrubey Bros.
TOO p. m.-Vespers-Music by
Hrubey Bros.
1880 D. m.-Reading, "The Sign OF
the Cross"-Miss Ruth l.. Hemenway.
! 8:15 D. m.-Grand oratorial concert
! under leadership of Urof. Justin Leroy
Harris.
Today's program is the last of the
chautauqua but it is not the least by
any means. Instead 1t is replete with
star features. This morning at 10:30
Mr.. Ilahi-Baksh gives his lecture on
"The Women of India" Hon. Champ
/ Clark Of Missouri comes at D. m.
He is man who draws thousands to
! hear him. At 80 Montaville Flow
ers will read the last two acts of Ben
Hur." At 'S:15 will occur the closing
+! feature a grand oratorical concert un-
der the direction of Justin Leroy Har-
ris. These are the four big numbers
+; of the big last day. In addition there
! will be the regular Sunday school, mu-
| by Miss Hemenway
The management expects the larg-
est crowd of the ten days today. Par
ties from the surrounding towns have
i signified their intention Of coming by
train and interurban. Quite a large
crowd will come from Dayton. In
addition the farmers will drive in in
great numbers. Superintendent Shaw
says that there will be six thousand
people on the grounds today. provid-
ing the weather is good
Indian Gave Address.
Last evening Ilahi Baksh gave an
Interesting lecture on the Religions
of India" Mr.. Baksh is a native born
Indian, dark mysterious and witty. He
|explained the numerous religions of
India, the occultism and their hideous
srites.
Wallace Bruce Amsbury preceded
him with a reading and the Hrubey
bros. gave a concert.
Amsbury's Career.
The reading given by Wallace Bruce
sAmsbury yesterday afternoon from
his Ballads of Bourbonnais' was a
decided success despite the fact that
the hour was late and the audience
thad already heard an unusually long
program. Mr.. Amsbury is one of the
iyounger authors whose rising star is
'attracting much attention. Formerly
The was on the stage. For eleven years
The was associated with such stars as
May Wainwright and Thomas Ste-
lbrook. But he became tired of the
sstage and wanted to become an in
'terpreter of literature. One day he
resigned his position as stage manag-
Ter and going out among the small
towns began to give readings. For
1.-TWO years he fought for a precarious
iexistence. But he learned his busi-
mess and going to Chicago sprang at
lonce into popular favor. Mis- Ballads
lof Bourbonnais" were not written at
first for publication but to fill out his
programs. A society literary woman
of New York who heard him read
them asked him to send some of them
TO the Century Magazine. He sent
one. In few days came a check in
payment accompanied by a request
for more of them. Since then they
have been popular favorites.
Flowers Gave Reading.
Montaville Flowers gave his second
reading yesterday at three o'clock. He
read his own dramatization of Les
Miserables.' Mr.. Flowers has con.
densed the great novel of Victor Hugo
containing 100000 words into read
Ing less than two hours in length.
Les Miserables" is the story of Jean
Vatican the galley slave who had es-
capped and become an honorable man
but voluntarily went back to the gal
leys when he found that another man
had been taken for him and was about
to be condemned. It'is the story of a
conscience, a story of the struggle of
a great soul followed by a cruel fate.
The parts are all heavy but Mr.. Flow
ers succeeded in giving them a won
derfully vivid Interpretation.
Children Gave Drills.
The children's program given Satur.
day afternoon under the direction of
Miss Hemenway was prettily done.
Miss Hemenway had trained over one
hundred children In Japanese hand
drills. Indian hand drills, hoop drills,
free hand work, Swede dance, French
dance and Indian dance. Though the