Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-11
NOTES ON The
CHAUTAUQUA
Improved Weather Conditions are
Filling the Big Tent Litter
airy Success Of the
Program.
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK IS GOOD
]. Adam Bede Delivers Address
Miss Agnes Doyle and Mrs.
Lila English.
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK IS GOOD
(From Saturdays Daily.)


Improved weather conditions are
filing the Chautauqua tent. II
looks now as though the literary
success of the Chautauqua would be
crowned with financial success. Web
ster City must make this yearly
event not only notable but also sue.
cessful. It is the best form of ad
vertising the city can indulge. A
Chautauqua reputation is one of the
best assets a city can have. The re-
manning programs ought to fill the
big tent to OVERLOOKING.
1t is good to watch the Chautau-
qua crowd gather for the evening
program. After supper the tent be-
comes the focus of Webster City life,
and the talent which stands behind
the Chautauqua footlights must have
the feeling that Webster City peo-
r1e do not live in the town of No
Good. By half past seven the arriv-
ms crowd becomes a leisurely pro-
cession which fills the walks and
streets leading to the Chautauqua
grounds. There are fine horses and
carriages, automobiles and baby
cabs, folk afoot and horseback; they
stroll up singly and in couples. There
is the family group, and all seem TO
wear the happy Chautauqua smile
and to be anticipating a good time
at the big tent. 1t means much
when such a crowd habitually gath
ers for the summer school which con-
stitutes the spirit of every Chautau-
qua. On the grounds the crowd lin
gers on the outskirt of the big tent,
10th to pass in from the open air.
Before the rain broke the d-outn
perhaps the majority heard the pro-
gram from outside the flaps of the
tent But these cooler nights the
people take their seats inside the
tert. If you happen not to have
seen or If you have not been part
Of the Webster City Chautauqna
crowd, be sure to hear the program
tonight, and also be "twicer" to-
morrow and, apart from what you
will hear, the sight of your neigh
bors en- masse will do you good.
Mary Agnes Doyle and Mrs. Lii
la English appeared in sort Of a
duet last night be-
fore an audience that was as great
as that which greeted the Kellogg
Haines Singing Party the previous
night. We hasten to say that in spite
of the brilliancy of the operate pro-
gram which they followed on the
Chautauqua program, Miss Doyle
and Mrs. English made good. The
work they put on and their success
throughout their program illustrates
the diversity of Chautauqua pro-
grams and the breadth of the public
taste.
Last night Mrs. English was both
preludist and interludist to Miss
Doyle's program of humorous read
ings, and both won hearty and uni
versal applause. AS her opening
number, Mrs. English sang a song
of pretty sentiment, entitled, There
Bloomed Rose in My Garden" and
her daughter accompanied her OIL
the piano. The singer followed with
a picturesque semi humorous song
entitled, In May" AS an interlude
between the two parts of Miss
Doyle's program, Mrs. English gave
two songs in pretty Irish costume.
The first selection was the we'll
known song, Come Back to Erin. y
"Shugi Shu" was Mrs. English's next
number, which the singer translated
to mean an Irish cradle.
Miss Agnes Doyle is of purely Irish
parentage, and she has the mastery
CT the Irish dialect in its more re-
fiji ed forms as have few on the
American platform. Miss Doyle uses
none of the doubtful tricks of elocu-
tion to attract attention or to hold
the crowd. She is simple and d.
rect, and withal most natural. Her
appearance on the platform suggests
strength, deliberateness, poise. She
gives one the impression that II her
lines should fail her she would create
some good substitute and go on with
out a break. Perhaps she has not
the ability to individualize quite as
many imaginary characters on the
stage as did Mr.. Taggart the other
evening, Uat within her range her
characters live vitality with the very
best. Her readings yesterday en-
braced two "Dooley" sketches, and