Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-08
FIRST NUMBER
ON LECTURE COURSE
Will Appear In Audubon ON The
Night of Tuesday, October Goth
Some Splendid Talent

Some Splendid Talent
A six piece ladies orchestra, a
ladies vocal sextette, "a ladies drill
team with six members, vocal and in
strumental soloists and readers make
up the Musical Maids who are to ap-
pear at the first number of the Aud
ubon Commercial Club Lyceum course
at the opera house, Tuesday evening,
October goth.
A full evening of orchestral music
grows dull to people who prefer vocal
numbers, and vica versa. But where
you combine the two in proper pro-
portions and give it spice by adding
some attractive drills in beautiful cos
tunes. with the performers cultured
and charming young women, then
the program is delightful to all.
Some fourteen weeks of daily
Chautauqua work combined with
splendid private individual training
makes this company of experienced
artists capable of giving the best in
music in a way that popularizes it
with the average lyceum audience.
We predict this will prove one of
the most attractive and pleasing en-
tertainments ever given in Audubon.
Judge George ID. Alden
Judge Alden who comes on No
vember goth as the second number
of our course, is from Massachusetts,.
He is a son of the Mayflower Pill
grims and the Puritans-a defendant
of John Alden the scribe, and Priscil-
la the fair spinner, and his great
great grandmother would never have
had to urge him very strongly to
speak for himself, George. He is
clean and clear cut; has Yankee wit
coupled with Yankee practical sense;
has courage and conviction, is the
typical man with a message. He
started out in life to be a reformer,
and we fancy he has kept 1t up ever
since, but has learned to tone down
his satire and invective. A good
many of the people here i'm town have
heard Judge Alden lecture. and they
remember him as fearless and
forceful speaker.
Opie Read Coming
Opie Reed is coming. He will fill
a date on our Lyceum Course. Such
an announcement ought to create a
great deal of interest for Opie is one
of the best known American authors
and a delightful entertainer
On his visit here he will imperson-
ate some of the great characters APP
peal ing in his books and will give a
touch of southern life in the style
that has made him famous. He Is
one of the finest humorists in the
world and keeps his audiences keyed
up to high pitch of interest. Opie
Reed is great character and de-
serves a large hearing.
He appears on our course Deem
Der 18th.
Chambers ImpersonatOr
A great reader and impersonator
is John F. Chambers. His presenta-
ton of the play entitled "A Grand
Army Man" is work of art and calls
forth bursts of applause and rounds
of laughter. For Chambers is full
of sparkling humor and carries his
audiences with him from his first
sentence.
Chambers uses no make-ups. He
depends solely upon his voice and
facial expression and the effects pro-
duced are truly wonderful. The
audience forgets that one man is
doing it all and imagines a dozen
actors are occupying the platform.
Chambers appears on our Lyceum
Course January 18th and should have
packed house.
To Revive Old Songs
Our Old Home Singers who are to
appear on the Lyceum Course March
18th will fill the demand that has
been made of Lyceum managers for
years. namely to supply a company
that would sing the songs of the peo-
pie, so full of the heart-call that their
memory clings to us through the pass
ing years. Songs that will live thru
all the years and come back into pop
ularity with each generation because
they deserve to live. Such songs as
Sweet Genevieve, Ben Bolt, When
You and l were Young Maggie. Come
Back to Erin, Annie Laurie, etc.
After hearing some sweet voiced
singer sing number that was notice
able for its musical gymnastics rather
than the words, we have all wished
that the beautiful voice might be
heard in something the tune of which
we knew. This company will fill just
this demand
Every member of Our Old Home
Singers is an excellent singer, and
during the present Chautauqua sea.
son, has won an unbounded success
in the Kansas City territory of the
Redpath Office; and this winter they
are going to bring back to this terri
tOry the old SON pa of awaat mamnry