The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-08-18
Blaze OF GLORY
AT STATE FAIR
Might Entertainment al Topeka
a Big Feature.
LAST DAYS OF pOMPEIL

PAINS Most Spectacular Production
Pictured In Fire--Liberati's Famous
Band and Twenty Grand Opera Sing
ers at Popular Prices--Live Stock
and Art Exhibits.
The night entertainments at the
Kansas State Fair at Topeka, Sept,
Ills, will be the most elaborate ever
attempted in the great west. In front
of the amphitheater each evening or
Fair week will be presented a program
for % cents that will repay trip from
every corner of Kansas to witness.
Thousands have paid fancy prices TO
hear Libera1i's celebrated musical or
ganization in grand concert without
any additional features and have mar
veled at the grandeur of the music by
this aggregation Of soloists. People in
every cline have clamored for an OPP
portunity to hear Lberati's band*and
have not counted the cost. For the
State Fair engagement Signor Liberati
brings to Topeka twenty Of the worlds
best singers, renowned as operate
stars. who will render selections from
grand opera, in costume, accompanied
by this big band
Inst think for n moment what tins
means. Who is there that has heard
or ever expected to hear grand opera
by even one or two stars ut popular
prices? The State Fair management
offers Il much better proposition to the
music lovers of Kansas. Instead OF
one or two great stars or one or two
sOloists at the head of company or
lesser lights there win be an all star
company, twenty of them, with the
same magnificent wardrobes they have
used in the same operate productions
in the big cities of the east
And that is not all. Please keep
your seats and wait until the show is
over Following the dual attraction
Of Iiberaus band in concerts and the
presentation of grand opera selections
I'm conjunction Herewith by a com
pany Of virtuosos never before assem-
bled west of Chicago the patrons Of
the night entertainments will be Civ
en- the additional treat of Pains won
derful presentation of "The Last Days
of Pompeii," the pyrotechnic topnotch
or of modern times, depicting in seas
of beautiful varicolored fires the his
toric burning of the ancient Roman
city and the accompanying scenes Of
grandeur and terror told in its pano-
ramic destruction following The elab-
crate holiday festivities. This produc.
ton requires an army Of people and
to costume the scenes world of par
aphernalia and settings. Millions Of
people all over the county have adj
mired this awe inspiring fireworks
spectacle. Other millions have never
witnessed it. and still other millions
there are who, having witnessed one
production, would travel across Kan
sas TO see it again.
The State Fair management certain
" has crowded into its night pro-
grams for a popular price more than
has ever before been attempted by
western organization and is surely an
inducement to Iansans TO come TO To
pel,a and have the week Of their lives.
As further lnducement the regular
exhibits will be open for inspection
each evening-the pavilions contain
ing the best live stock ever shown in
Kansas: The art building, containing an
up to date collection of art; textile fab
rics and miscellaneous exhibits hat in.
struct and interest everybody. The
buildings will he brilliantly lighted NJ,
and attendants will be on hand to
lend every courtesy to all who care to
visit the exhibits.
Another notable feature of the State
Fair this year will be the appearance
of the Patterson Great Shows, one of
the most remarkable aggregatiOns Of
the kind touring the west. 1t has the
very finest class Of amusements and
educational features.
The managers Of the State Fair want
the people to go away from the Fair
this year pleased and satisfied They
want to present as much for the adj
mission charged as they can, so that
all who come will imbibe the spirit Of
putting the best foot forward for Kan
sas and assist in building up a State
Fair that will eclipse all other similar
expositions in character of exhibits
and attendance.