South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-12

With the arrival of the big tent"
and it's prompt erection by a band Of
husky college students final prepara-
tons have been made for South
Bends first chautauqua which starts
Tuesday afternoon.
The weeks program opens with a
recital and a production of the opera
The Lovers Quarrel. both by
the Redpatn Grand Opera company
and a lecture by George L. McNutt on
Culture and Democracy.
Following the first days program
com sea galaxy of speakers and en-
tertainers. including eX-Gov. Folk,
Dean Sumner of st. Paul's and St.
Peters cathedral at Chicago. the Ben
Greet players. Kryls band Isabel
Beecher. Emil ]. Seidel, Milwaukee's
former socialist mayor; Adam Beede.
the witty eX-cOngressman from Min
nesota; Judge Marcus Kavanaugh
and Frank ComerfOrd OF Chicago.
Special efforts have been made to
make the program a notable one so
as to establish the chautauqua move
ment in South Bend as a permanent
feature. Local people, headed by the
executive committee Of the Chamber
Of Commerce. have been cooperating
with the chautauqua managers to
make the week a success.
Arranging Reception.
Tentative arrangements have been
made for a reception for ex-Gov.
Folk. At Indianapolis where he
spoke recently under chautauQua
auspices a big reception was given
him with Gov. Ralston, all the state
house officials and democratic leaders
from over the state assisting in the
welcome.
At the eleventh hour a change was
made in the location Of the chau-
tauqua. 1t Will be neld on Keefer's
field on w. COlfaX av. instead of at
Michigan av and Scott St as planned
The Michigan av. field was found to
bc too small and arrangements were
hurriedly made for renting the
Keefer place.
Most Of the paraphernalia of the
company had been sent TO the field
before the change was decided on.
When the men started TO mark off the
ground for the tent ii was discovered
that there wasn't room for it,
One of the many ways that college
men earn money during the summer
vacation il seems is by working with
chautauquas. With the Redpath peo-
pie are a score or more men who do
nothing But the physical work.
When the tents and apparatus ar
rived in the city the college men were
on hand 10 unload the cars. One
thing the company lacks TO make It
just like q circus is the loads of
wagons
No Big Horses There.
There were nO big horses 20 be
taken out Of their cars and the small
boy Gid not have the opportunity OF
watching wagon after wagon running
down a plank TO the ground. Instead
OF all this the trucks Of a South Bend
dray line hauled the tents and poles
10 the field.
With the first wagons came the col
Iege men to help unload and unpack
the tents. There were three OF the
men whose duty IL was 10 mark of
the field. Here is where the training
Of a surveyor came IN handy. First
a center stick was put in the ground
and from this the positions OF the
other stakes were determined.
BY the time the field had been
marked off all Of the canvas and poles
had been unpacked and the tent was
ready for its raising. Unlike the cir
Gus there was no engine TO drive the
stages. II had to be done by muscle
alone and the college men supplied
the muscle.
After the stakes had been driven
the rest of the tent raising was just
like a circus. All OF the men had a
hand in it and soon II was ready.
One or two of the college boys had
the 'rah rah" appearance and had
their hats turned up in front. All
or the time they were working they
all held the regulation curved stem
pipes in their mouths.
Tuesdays Program.
The program for Tuesday opens
with the recital in the afternoon and
McNutt's address and in the even
ing ParellFs brilliant one act
opera will be given with Mabel Sher-
wood Cox as Rosaura, David Dunbar
as F1orindo. Esther AIuenstermann as
Donna Angelica, and Hugh Anderson
as Don Fulgenzio as the principal
roles. Isaac Van Grove is the piano
acCompanist
A synopsis Of the opera follows:
FlorindO and Rosaurs. son and
daughter, respectively. OF Don Full
genzio and his sister Donna An