The Virginia enterprise., 1912-09-13
VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL
Entertainment COURSE
Seven Splendid Numbers Booked for
this Winters Entertainment
Course, the First of Which Will
BE Given October -Four.

course in our public schools, lAis line
o1 entertainment has been looked
upon as one OF the pleasing ana in
s.ructive events OF the season, each
Number drawing large crowds and
each time the crowds going away
Well satisfied with the evenings en-
terta4ument. This season the num-
Ders booked promise to be even more
entertaining than IN previous years.
seven numbers have been booked for
the season of 1928, and they are
considered the best that the Lyceum
bureau can produce. Tickets for the
entire course will be sold at one
dollar each, while the admission to
single entertainments will be fifty
cents. The first number of the
course will be the Schubert Sympho-
ny Club and Lady Quartette, which
will appear at the Roosevelt auditor
ium on the evening of October 4th.
Following this number will be the
University Girls on October Is. The
Cambridge Players will be here on
November 6, James H. Batten on
November 2S, the Orphean Musical
Club on December Il, the Cosmopol-
itan Four on February 20 and Cap
tain Richmond P. HoDson on April 2.
The Schubert company is not new
to Virginia music lovers, it having
appeared in this city last winter
under the auspices Of the Elks lodge
Of this 'city, and gave the best of
satisfaction. Their new program is
said to be the best they have ever
produced.
The University Girls meet the gen.
eral demand of the Lyceum for a
high class playing and singing COM
pany. 1t is not.alone as an orches-
ira that they excel, though their
work in this line is equal to that
Of the best organizations in the field.
Nor is it only a singing company that
they win popular favor. Their solos,
quartets and choruses, together with
other novelty features of their pro-
grams are of sufficient merit to hold
and interest cultured audiences,
while with their superb instrumental
effects they present an entertain
ment of many pleasant surprises and
splendid features.
The Cambridge Players is an or
ganization that marks the beginning
OF new epoch in the Lyceum enter
tainment. -Four good artists brought
together by the same ambitions and
all peculiarly fitted for the positions
they occupy. The scenes from the
most famous plays will be the most
famous and vital; the humor clean
and wholesome and the singing
above reproach. The original
sketches will be clever enough to
interest any audience, and the per-
sonnel of the company is socially
beyond criticism.
James Hoffman Batten has been
characterized as the Little Giant
of the Lyceum Platform" He is
unique in his individuality, intense
in his purpose, positive in his mess
age, eloquent in his presentation
Mr.. Batten has a wonderfully rich,
full, clear voice, a remarkable COM
mand of Language, and a genius for
pouring the water of life through
the clay jugs of Saxon speech"
The Orphean Musical Club have
had phenomenal success in their
past seasons and are more generous
ly equipped than ever to please the
public the coming season. They are
versatile, artistic, capable of giving
a widely diversified program, con-
sisting Of vocal quartets, horn quar-
tets, solos, illustrated songs and i'm
presentations. They have an ex-
tensive repertoire of vocal music
and in the classic, humorous and
comic selections are equally at
home, their voices blending in per-
feet harmony, giving the effect of
a deep-toned organ.
With the Introduction of the Co.'S
mopolitan -Four the committee will
offer four finished musical artists,
but the most versatile company in
the world, with five grand musical
combinations string, brass,
orchestra and Mexo-Spanish- pro-
ducing grand and light opera, musi-
cal comedy and minstrelsy. They
will appear in solos, duos, trios and
ensemble; do monologues, dialogues
and enact brilliant comedy sketches.
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