Milford chronicle., 1912-02-16
CHAUTAQUA PROPOSED FOR MILFORD
Meeting to be held in New Century Club Room This Friday
Evening to Consider Proposition.
IMPORTANT THAT ALL CITIZENS SHOULD ATTEND.

I. Ellis, the widely-known journalist anc
traveller, whose articles on the worlds I'M
rest are attracting much attention Dr. P.
M. Pearson, in his charming masterpiece,
The Poetry of Life" and Mrs. George
c. Pickett, the widow of the famous Con
federate general, who will lecture on
"Picketts Charge at Gettysburg" In ad-
dition to these there will be a great debate
on, the Aldrich Currency Plan, in which
Hon. VIM. Fl. Berry, late Keystone Party
candidate for governor of Pennsylvania,
and who is an effective speaker will at
tack the Plan and some speaker of ma
tional prominence, probably Robert +. Ire
ton. the editor of Financial AmericG will
defend it. Furthermore the platform man
ager, who will be one of half-a-dozen
talented speakers who are under engage
ment for such service, will deliver a series
of lectures on literary. religious or econ
omic theme. Then there will be an il
lustrated lecture on Seeing America -
for Chautauqua is intensely patriotic and
believes that our own country contains
treasures of scenery as worthy of vista
tion as the beauties of the old world.
SUPERIOR MUSICAL FEATURES.
II the lecture program is incomparably
fine. the musical offerings are at least of
equal merit The opening day will bring
Ciricillo's great italian Band of twenty
five unusually s1ilful musicians. An in
teresting feature of this band is the nine
year-old director. Angelo Vitale, who
shares the direction of each concert with
Maestro Salvatore Ciricillo. This band
will give two great concerts. The next
day the Walter Bentley Ball Concert Com
pany Will render two programs. Walter
Bentley Ball is a very fine baritone soloist
who has made special study of American
folk songs. One of their programs will
consist of a popular interpretative recital
of these folk songs, and will constitute a
distinguishing feature of the Chautauqua.
The next day will come the Lyric Glee
Club, male quartette and a horn quar-
tette, which has years of professional sue
cess to its credit. 1t is easily one of the
most popular musical organizations on the
Chautauqua platform. Later, the Austro-
Hungarian Orchestra will appear in two
programs. This is an organization of
seven instrumentalists of European birth
or training, whose musicianship is excep-
tIonal. The last of the musical features
will be two concerts by the Earnest Gam
BILE Concert Party, which. after a career
of thirteen consecutive years of success
stands fdciie PriHcePS among musical or
ganizations. This party is Small numeri-
cally. but big artisticallv" being composed
Of three individual artists, each the pro
duct of the greatest European masters.
share equally in their programs, and whose
concerts have been described as ''the acute
accentuation of merit"
Time and space fail to describe all the
other features. There will be readings by
Paul NJ. Pearson, whose reputation as a
reader is nationwide and by Francis I.
Hendry, of the Lyric Glee Club. There
will be moving pictures each night Above
all, there will be the indescribabie Chau-
tauqua spirit, which will leave you longing
for the return of Chautauqua next year.
SHALL WE HAVE IT?
Surely a Chautauqua like this would he
of such worth that we cannot afford. rs
a town, to miss it, now that the opportunity
is presented. We are told that the Dropo-
sifion TO be presented will put the Ch1u
tauqua easily within our reach. At m
rate. the opportunity is one we cam
afford to treat with Indifference. TIL,
Chautauqua Association means business
and is going to conduct these great festi
walls in number of Delaware towns
Undoubtedly, they will confer an uriqus
distinction upon the towns where thev ar,
held. Let everybody who is interested ir
the welfare and standing of our town at
'end the meeting announced above.