Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
DATE DRAWS NEAR
Chautauqua Will Open In Dallas
On Saturday of This Week.
PIONEERS FIRST ON PROGRAM.
Tents and Paraphernalia Will Arrive
Here in Special Baggage Car on
! Thursday-Free on Friday.

Beautiful souvenir programs OF the
chautauqua are being distributed
throughout the city. They unfold and
show on one side huge picture of
nearly all the talent who are to give
thirty entertainments here during the
six-day festival beginning this week
Saturday The schedule of events
shows that entertainments have been
arranged with some special idea fea-
tured on each day. For instance, the
fourth day is designated Music Day,
because there are no lectures either in
the afternoon or evening. Ciricillo,
with his great Italian band, gives the
entire entertainment in the afternoon
and joins the Thaviu Grand Opera
company in a joint program at the
evening concert. Big crowds are ex-
pected from surrounding towns for
Music Day.
Woman's Day is featured on the
fifth day, the chief attractions being
Mrs. William Calvin Chiffon of the
south, and Mrs. A. L. A. Robinson.
Mrs. Chiffon is an entertainer, while
Mrs. Robinson lectures on "What |
Saw in Japan" The last thing of
the sixth day is Joy night The man
agement gives nothing more than
promises about the nature of this
program, but will likely make good,
for plans are already practically set
tied to have the chautauqua here
another year.
The second day is one of the biggest
of the chautauqua, for it has two of
the greatest orators of the week. DIR.
+. w. Gunsaulus and Ng Poon Chew.
DR.. Thomas E. Green is the big draw
ing card on the third day.
Pioneer day is the initial event
Col. w. H. Miller, big booster for
community development, is the orator
of the day. Short addresses will al
so be made by several local citizens.
Music will be furnished by the Lyric
Glee Club, male quartet which was
sent to the Panama canal by the gov
ernment to entertain the thousands of
ditch diggers.
The chautauqua is evidently an in
stitution which has come to stay. 1t
begins to manifest the permanency of
the public school, public library, the
church and the newspaper. There are
1898 chautauquas in the United
States this summer. All but 600 of |
them are conducted on the system
plan, same as the local chautauqua
that is, managed by concern which
takes care of all the business manage
ment in consideration of a guarantee
furnished by local citizens. The other
600 chautauquas are called indepen-
dents. for they select their own talent,
hire their own superintendent and do
their own advertising.
Investigation revealed to several
Dallas enthusiasts that by joining the
system they are not only
relieved of work and worry incident
to arranging and directing the fes-
tival, but financial risk is considerably
reduced Fifteen hundred dollars was
by local boosters to bring
he chautauqua here Those informed
IN cost of talent, advertising, tents,
,tc., declare that if local organiza-
ion working independently were to
1ring the same talent, publicity and
'eatures which the Ellison-White Sys- s
EN- is furnishing, it would cost close
o $4,000, all of which must be paid
hould weather turn out good or bad
Jnder the arrangement with Ellison
White, all gate receipts go to that |
oncern, but only in this manner is the 5
inn able to make up the extra $1,000 t
which the chautauqua costs even under I
he circuit system. 1t gets no profits l
Inless gross receipts exceed $2500. I
On Friday night, known as tent |
light, for on this day the big chautau- 1
ua tent will be erected. there will t
e a free entertainment which in II
ludes movies of the Panama exposi- t
ion, and stereoptican views of the b
llent that will appear here during the .
The baggage car with |
he paraphernalia will arrive here on ;
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