Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-11
AUGUSTA ENTERTAINMENT
COURSE.
Four Unusually Fine Attractions for
Season of 1910-1911. Remarkably
Low Price to Subscription Course
Ticket Purchasers.

The Augusta Entertainment Course
committee announce the engagement
for this season of four metropolitan
attractions of unusual merit-the
greatest successes of the lyceum stage
to appear in City Hail. 1t is by far
an entertainment course of greater
magnitude than ever attempted in
Augusta and should receive the pa
tronage of all who believe that our
city wants and is entitled to the very
best Certainly four such high grade
ATTRACTIONS have never been offered in
any course ever given in Maine, pos
sibly not in New England.
The Rogers Grilley Co., musical and
humorist entertainers, who open the
course on the evening of Oct. 25th are
new to Maine but have a national
reputation. having appeared over two
hundred times in Boston and filled
many return engagements in every
other large city in the country. Their
original and delightful entertainment
during which the audience is carried
through a series of artistic efforts in
the realm of humor, pathos and mu-
sic. is pronounced by the press an
CTlIICS 10 ne uIlSQudllcu ny olICl
entertainers.
The second attraction of the course
if Laurant THE Man of Many Mys-
teries" and company on Nov 18TH
This peer of all magicians with his
three new acts of magic and Illusions
offers the most novel and artistic en-
tertainment of it's kind. In his mar
velous palace of Mysteries" he pro-
duces over twenty startling and orig
inal feats in magic. His Wizards
Supper" is an act in itself unique and
wonderful. With the stage set for
banquet. he serves the audience (his
guests) with curious dishes of magic
cookery produced from nowhere. With
his Magic of the orient is sho'.n
the feats of the Hindoo fakrs which
have been a dark mystery for ages.
while his Great East Indian Mystery"
is acknowledged by all to be the most
bewidering illusion ever produced on
any Stage.
Perhaps the greatest treat of the
course is the appearance, Jan. 18th
of Gov JOS. w. Folk of Missouri in
his celebrated lecture. THE Era Of
Conscience" said by the Boston Her
aid to be the finest ever delivered in
Boston. No man is harder to obtain
than Fighting Joe" Folk. the brilliant
statesman who has started reform
which is sweeping the entire country.
After several years of continue! urg-
ing he has consented to very few
lecture engagements for this season.
Augusta is the only city in Maine for
of fhnCn
was necessary to pay for his services
a larger sum than is asked by any
other lecturer now before the Ameri-
can public. Gov. Folk is generally
considered as most probably the next
candidate of the democratic party for
president
Last years favorite. Peter Mac
Queen, the worlds greatest travelogue
lecturer. will close the course on Feb.
14th His new lecture, THE Philip
pines and Japan" said to be his best.
will be illustrated with over two hum
bred beautifully colored views such as
only MacQueen can show. All who
attended last year will want to again.
and any who have never heard this
celebrated traveller and lecturer
should embrace what is probably the
last opportunity in Augusta, as his
time is now almost wholly engaged in
the large cities.
Tc. raise the large sum of money
necessary to secure these high grade
attractions Gov. Folks lecture alone
will cost the committee as much as
anv two of last seasons attractions)
subscription course tickets will be
sold at s1.O0 each if purchased before
Oct a1st when the regular advance
ticket sale for the first attractions
opens. These subscription course
tickets will entitle the holder to ad-
mission and reserved seat to all
four entertainments of the course