Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-16
ENTERTAINMENT COURSE.
Augusta Entertainment Course Com
mttee Announces Next Seasons At
fractions.

success. has made it possible for the
Augusta Entertainment Course com
mittee to engage for next season a
list of attractions of greater strength
and magnitude than was ever dream
ed of when the course was started,
three years ago.
OF last seasons course it was fire.
quently stated that some of the at
fractions We're worth the price charg-
ed for a course ticket. OF next sea-
sons bookings, this can be said of
every entertainment without fear of
contradiction.
The course will be opened the lat
ter part of November with a presen-
tation by the celebrated Ben Greet
Players of Oliver Goldsmiths famous
comedy "She Stoops to Conquer"
The Ben Greet Company of eleven
players has set the pace for classic.
drama in America ever since it came
from England a dozen years ago to
present the famous morality play
"Everyman. This play was the sem
sation of the continent Since then
Mr.. Greet has been regarded as the
dean of producers in his line and as
the foremost authority on the classic
III anna III AIIh5i ia ne COMPANY
plays long seasons in New York and
the other large cities, when seats
are sold at as high as 500 a per-
Torrance. They carry their own
stage fittings and will transform the
stage of City hall into a stage of
Goldsmth's time. The Ben Greet
PLAYERS have also become famous by
their ut-of-door entertainments Civ
en- by request of the President on
the White House lawn, at the Har-
ward Stadium, the open air theatre at
Berkeley University, Calf, at Nassar,
Radcliff and many other famous col
lcges IT is the highest paid lyceum
company in the country and its equal
has never been seen in Augusta.
About holiday time comes Alton
Packard, without question the worlds
greatest cartoonist, characterize, pi-
analogue artist and entertainer.
Packard seems to move people to-
screams of laughter or cause them
to brush away the silent tear at his
will. No single entertainer can hold
ard please an audience like this re-
markable man.
Thomas Brooks Fletcher, the dra-
matte orator and the only speaker
in the course, is the surprise of the
ivceum. From the standpoint of dra-
matte power he is a cyclone, and in
five years has risen from newspaper
dom to the front rank as Il speaker
He is the autocrat of the audience
the apostle of audaeious truth--the
coming leader among men. In his re-
markable lecture The Tragedies of
the Unprepared," he holds his audi
cnces between his thumb and fore
finger They are either leaning
breathlessly forward Of else CONFUSED
With laughter over some brilliant
wittieism. His epigrams burn into
the memory, and his word pictures
are more vivid than any cartoonist
can draw with crayon. Fletcher has
more return engagements than any
other lecturer in the country.
In February. the Anitas, famous
singing orchestra, will be featured.
Six clever and cultured young ladies,
beautifully gowned. not only play mu
sic in recital style but sing unusual
" we'll, present costume sketches,
songs with action and other novel
features, besides number of SOLO
lists The company includes several
European graduates in music and is
headed by Mrs. Ralph Dunbar, who
has won a national reputation. as
reader and character sketch artist.
The closing number, in March, will
be given by the celebrated Kellogg
Haines Singing Party, a company
which in the last nine years has APP
peared in every part of the Union
and Canada with remarkable success.
7 hey produce not only splendid en-
sem bles. but opera scenes and sketches
in costume, solos and monologues.
This is acknowledged to be the best
concert company in lyceum-the
standard by which others are judged.
Altogether. it is one of the strong
est courses ever offered in the east.
TIE lyecum movement is the twenti-
eth century university for busy men and
women, and brings to them the best
thee is in music literature and the
arts, from the forum, the theatre
the pulpit. the legislative hall, the art
ST. do and the workshop of science.
1t draws from every realm of human
thought and entertainment for that
whioh is worth while. 1t brings good
cheer and welcome smiles to the
tired worker, new inspiration to the
puzzled thinker, high and clean ideals
to the young, splendid entertainment
and a message of joy and optimism to
all. 1t knows no creed or code of
ethics, and no platform except that
it stands for that which is clean and
helpful and will make men and wo-
men happier and better.