Smyrna times., 1913-04-09
CHAUTAUQUA TO MEET IN
SMYRNA WEEK OF JUNE 7TH
FINE TALENT TO BE BROUGHT
HERE BY THE ASSOCIATION
Music. the Best From the Composers;
Lecturers the Best Procurable and
Many Other Big Events.

Lecturers the Best Procurable and
Many Other Big Events.
The Chautauqua which will be held
on the school green Of June seventh
will be a solid week of snappy lee
lures, tart entertainments and "tak-
ing music. punched under a tent
spread among the trees, of a vacant
lot or park in the town. There will
be fence about the grounds to keep
out troublesome hangers-on. A local
committee takes care of the tickets
at the gate. The platform Superin-
tendent is in charge of the whole.
First day at Smyrna and at ninety
other towns which pass their enter
tainers along in a progressive party
style, is Band Day. Band Day..
The twenty dark faced FlOrentines that
make up the 1913 Chautauqua Band,
a bunch of the famous Victor Band,
play really classical music and make
it irresistably appealing. For another
afternoon during the week, Mr.
Henry Such who has played before
the crowned heads of Europe, is bill
ed to give the violinist's half of the
program. The Brodbeck- Such Com
pany cooperate with the Florentines
in tempting the people to cast the
popular rag from the music rack into
the garbage. The music of the four
tn day comes in along with the other
stunts" of the joyous Deitrics who
employ the weird powers of magic to
help them entertain the crowd. The
Commonwealth Male Quartet billed
for the fifth Chautauqua Day give a
great number of stirring selections,
of course, but they too. have quite a
repertoire of medleys. and banjo lull-
abies which exactly suit the mood of
a summer day. To finish the weeks
musical program the National Grand
Opera Company furnish a bit of the
sort of thing that one sees on the
stage Of the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York. So much for
what Chautauqua brings in the way of
music.
Chautauqua Lectures Are Famous.
In the days of the forties when the
fever to keep on farming ragged in towns
like Salem and Concord Massachusetts,,
the Lyceum attractions were almost
entirly lectures. Geology, astronomy.
and Greek antiquities were subjects
none too rugged for the strenuous
tastes Of the times. Still land it is
comforting to know this) the evening
audiences in the New England Town
Halls did not turn up their noses at
the speaker who dared offer to dis
cuss such homely themes as. Popular
SuperstitiOns, 3" 1.-The Model Wife. -
Raising Vegetables under Glass. f."
Chautauqua, since it's platform
speakers through the week number
but six, keeps its themes above the
surface of the ground, this side of the
moon, and within the A. d. time lin
it. The present problems of society,
politics, government, Of practical
science, Of morals and education, de-
mand attention first. Mr.. Frank Dix
on will lecture in Smyrna on IAN
Outgrown Constitution. A" Mr.. Dixon
Is tearfully incOnsiderate of comfort
ably cOntented people. "His elo-
quence is like a sharp elbow. Since
Chautauqua puts no censorship on the
honest expression Of any set of con-
vietiOns, the second evening of the
session promises to be a lively one.
Mr.. Reno B. Welbourn, now lectur-
ing before extension classes Of Yale
will occupy the third day to explain
the mechanism Of inventions like the
Electric Echo. sensitive little de-
vice which could have saved the Ti-
tanic from that dire collision last
spring. Perhaps he may go into the
details Of the master-clock on Eiffel
Tower which sends out electric time
signals to every ship on the seas.
Fortunately, Mr.. Welborn has wit
and enthusiasm and imagination be-
sides his genius with experiments.
In no other way could his Wonders
Of Science" demonstrated with ap-
paratus. have the popular fascination
which it does. Judge Ben. B. Lind
say, keen-eyed and merry faced will
tell Of his" boys" in the fifth lecture
Of the week and DIR. Newell Dwight
Hillie on the afternoon of the last
day will deliver "The American of
Today and Tomorrow" an address
that touches on the conservation Of our
resources, our quarrelsome little
neighbors to the South. the signals Of
racial degeneraey and racial sound
ness evident about us and the newt
able question Of the immigrant. Miss
Meddie o. Hamilton. Platform Sup
erintendent and Series Lecturer. en-
livens two afternoons with discussions