The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-05-31
ChAUTAUQUA
AT ELKTON


everlastingly for people who are naturally
prosperous already. 1t is not new. 1t Is
a revised and condensed edition or the OLD
Lyceum that hourished in New England
when Emerson demanded as Il lecture fee
In addition to the regular five dollars
four quarts of oats for his horse. Then
favored town not too far from the man
trave ed road was treated to a dozen
Lectures in as many weeks. The audi
ences were crowded in draughty halls in
the winters and suffered the well under
stood consequences of being frozen and
toasted by turns by the heat or the old
fashioned wood stove Still the ambition
of few was satisfied, and the Lyceum
has prospered
The Chautauqua that has come to our
city has stolen its name and it's out-of-
doors habit from the great summer school
that has sprung up on the shores of Lake
Chautauqua in New York In its aims
and its running scheme it is entirely orr
ginal. Sam Jones said I'VE are not reli-
gioLs enough to run a camp meeting and
County Fairs have gone out of date, so
we organize Chautauqua." He was Jest
ing, but he gives one the idea. CHAU-
TAUQUA is A SOLID WEEK OF SNAPPY
LECTURES, TART ENTERTAINMENTS
AND TAKING" MUSIC, PUNCHED UN-
DER A TENT SPREAD AMONG THE
TREES OF A VACANT LOT OR PARK IN
THE TOWN. There IS a fence about the
grounds to keep out troublesome hangers
on. Inside the enclosure are a splendid
lot of college students from Swarthmore
who act as roustabouts. A local commit
tee takes care of the tickets at the gate.
The Platform Superintendent is in charge
of the whole.
First day here and at ninety other
towns which pass their entertainers
along in progressive party style is
Band Day" The twenty three dark
faced Florentines that make up the 1918
Chautauqua Banda branch of the fam
Gus Victor Band,-'play classical music
and make it irreslstibly appealing. The
crowds go home humming snatches OF
Peer Gynt, II Trovatore, ana Lucia d.
Lammermoor! Last year in certain
Chautauqua town, for months after the
tent was down, the music store was rush
ed for different sort of record and
piano roll than ever had been popular
before The newest Broadway hit was
neglected. Music is 50 generally popu-
lar that second concert has been ar
ranged for the second day Tyrolean
Mountain Singers keep everyone in the
audience shouting at the vocal antics
they perform. Amateur attempts at
yodeltng are uspeakably bad, but the in
herlted twist of tone that these singers
give Us IS Is thrilling as birdmuslc
FOR another afternoon during the week
Mr.. Henry Such, who has played before
half the crowned heads of Europe, is bill
ed to give the violinists half of the pro-
gram. The Bradbcrk Such Company 20
operate with the Florentine in tempting
people to cast the popular rag from The
music rack into the garbage The music
OF the fourth day comes in along with
the other stunts of the joyous Deitrics
who employ tn epowers OF magic to help
the mentertain the crowd. The Com
monwealh Male Quartet billed for the
fifth Chautauqua Day, give great num-
Der of stirring selections, of course; but
they, too, have quite a repertoire of med
leys and banjo lula5ies, when c.uctly
SUIT the mood of summer afternoon.
To wind up the week $ musical program
the National Grand Opera Company fur
nish bit of sort of thing that one
sees on the stage of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York
CHAUTAuQUA LECTURES
In the days of the tortiCs WHOM the fever
TO keep on learning ragged in toHus Ike
Salem and Com. ord, Massachusetts, the
Lyteum attractions were almost entirely
Lectures Geology, Astronomy, and Greek
antiquities wcr subject none too rugged
Tor the strenuous tastes of the times
sun, (and it is comforting to know Ihis),
the evening audiences in the New Eng
land Town Halls did not turn up Iheir
ntses at the speaker who dared offer to
discuss such homely themes as Popular
Supersttions," The Model Wife" Rails
ing Vegetables under Glass" Chautau-
OUT since it's platform speakers through
the week numIer out six, keeps it's themes |
above the surface of the ground this |
side OF the moon, and within the A. d.
TIM" limit. The present problems of so |
clety, politics, government. of practical |
science, of morals and education, demand |
attention first. Mr.. Frank Dixon will |
lecture in this town on An Outgrown |
Constitution. Mr.. Dixon is fearfully in |
considerate of comfortably contented peo-
PIE. His eloquence is like a sharp ell |
bow. Since Chautauqua puts no censor
ship on the honest expression of any set
OF convictions, the second evening of The
session promises to be a lively one.
Mr.. Reno b. Welbourn, now lecturing
before extension classes at Yale, will use
the afternoon of the third day to explain
the mechanism of inventions like the
Electric Echo, sensitive little device
which could have saved the Titanic from
the collision last spring. Perhaps he will
go into the details of the master-cl ork
on Eiffel Tower which sends out electric |
time signals to every ship on the seas
Fortunately, Mr., Welbourn has wit and
enthusiasm and Imagination besides his
genius with experiments. In no other way
could his Wonders of Science" de
monstarted with apparatus, have such
popular fascination.
Elk Governor Robert b. Glenn. essen
tally plain, big-hearted, old-school |
southern gentleman, will speak on THE
Conservation Of Our Youth" at the fifth
lecture of the week.
DR.. Robert w. Mclaughlin a conspicu-
Gus success as pastor of the Park Con-
grcgational Church. Brooklyn gives the |