The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-08-28
THE CHAUTAUQUA

success. II was a wonderful program
from beginning to end. 1t was full of
thought, sentiment. musical entertain
mcnt and inspiration.
Last Friday afternoon Miss Hazel
kcpford, the popular entertainer, gave
Polly Of the Circus" Miss kepford
has a very charming personality and
is a reader Of remarkable capabilities.
Her voice, manner, inclinations and
training equip her for high grade ac-
complishments. She is young wo-
man Of keen insight and enters with
ease and grace into the very spirit of
the character she portrays. In "Polly
of the Circus" she uses with masterful
force, the bird-like voice of little Pol
ly and gives free vent to all the come
dy and pathos of that interesting part.
The ReGniers also appeared Friday
afternoon and evening. Mr. Regnier
is an artist at character intcrprcta-
tiou, With the aid Of greascs, paint,
wigs and various devices, he appears
as German, Swcdc, jew, Old Man,
Dude and what not He is humorous
and sentimental as well as master Of
a very sweet pathos. His wife is al
so very clever, and both are musicians
Of fine entertaining powers, and to-
gethcr they have worked out some
keen stunts for the stage
All who had the pleasure Of hearing
Saturdays program will readily
agree that after all the good things
they had heard the best, as usual,
come last
Jr. Homer W. Cook delivered
great lecture Friday afternoon on
"Thc Real Thing" Mr.. Cook is one
Of those characters who never take the
problems Of life too seriously. He
believes that while there are many ills
that flesh is heir to, there are many
move joys if we only look for them.
He has very brilliant mind He
served as President of the Missouri
state Normal School and has always
been n student of education. lie is
very literary in his tastes and through
his nature there runs n we'll defined
poetic colorinE His platform work
is thoroughly tinctured with these ell
ements and his lectures are of high
ly popular character. One gets much
JOY out Of his lectures as well rs
many good substantial lessons
Probably the best musical enter
tainers that the people Of Pennington
will have the honor to listen to for
some time furnished the music Satur-
day afternoon and furnished the pro-
gram complete in the evening. The
audience proved their delight by their
many cncorcs. The Instrumentation
of Ferrantcs Orchestra was cornct,
violin, clarinet, viola, Xylophonc, .vio-
iincello, piano, drum, and traps, and
from these they developed many beau
tful combinations and fine musical
effects.
Under the spell Of an artistic leader
the musicians pour their very spir-
its into their music, and. true to the
traditions Of their native land, pro
duce harmonics Of the sweetest and
choicest quality
Two noted singers, Mr.. Rollin NJ.
Pease and Dorothy NJ. Huston, Of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, who are with
the orchestra, rendered a delightful
variety of beautiful songs and were
accompanied by the entire orchestra
which proved the wonderful volume
Of their rich clear voices. Mr. Pcasc
has wonderful baritone voice of
great range and power. Mrs. Hus-
ton has a soprano voice and uttcrs
the extremely high notes with ease
and clearness.