The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-09-26

NORMAL SCHOOL WILL PRESENT
SOME FINE fATTRACTI0NS
va: - THIS SEASON. Il Sss - Il
HIGH GRkDEsTAIENT HAS BEEN
SECURED-GO0D MUSI-
CLANS COMING.
B

CLANS CUmlNG.
The Normal Lyceum course this
season, consisting OF ten numbers, is
he best ever offered, The majority
Of the entertainments will be played
At the Grand. Maude Powell, great
vt American vfoltnist, will appear
is the last number on the course. her
music. making the programs slightly
nore expensive than formerly. The
ltgh grade of the other musical num3
,crs and the lectures. also add value
the tickets purchased.
No advance will be made in the
rice of adult season tickets. Tho
ocular $500 will be charged for
,rown-ups and students, admitting
hem TO all entertainments. On ac-
count Of tile higher class of the tai
mt offered, the students price, $1.50,
II last year. will not be possible.
such a vaudeville price for opera as
en- cents an evening, should be cheap
.nough for anybody
The course costing $3.50. is the
best and largest offered in West Viz
| sinia. The first program on Tues
DAY, October 20, will be in lecture
form. Robert Parker Miles, the re-
aowned Lyceum speaker, will talk,
the subject not being known. Two
If his favorite deliveries are "Tallow
| Dips" and Sparks" each chnrae-
,erized by the wonderful dramatic
Utility of the man. He has deliver
| d $500 lectures between the oceans.
The single admission would be 30
cents. The lecture will be deliverd
in the Normal auditorium.
Montaville Flowers will appearra at
tile Grand. one week after Robert P.
Miles, on Tuesday. October 81. For
o number Of years Mr.. Flowers has
been recognized as the greatest read
Ter on the Lyceum platform. He has
ialso given much time to popular lee
turing. Color-Guard and Picket
Line" will be his subject. 1t will be
la mastery Interpretation of the Jap
anese question. The situation with
the monaghan nation at the present
time is in somewhat the form of the
Interrogation mark. This American
lecture will be right on the present
line of current events.
Now for the big popular event.
The Romancers," the comedy mas
terpiece of the celebrated Rostand,
author of "Chanteclar," will be pre-
sented by the Frank Lea Short COM
Ipany.. Mr.. Short has seen service with
the companies OF Daniel and Charles
Frohman, Messrs. Shubert, Nine. Ma
zimova, Louis Mann, John Drew anu
others. The single admission will
be $3.50. The date, Friday. Novem-
Der 9, the place. Normal stage.
The first purely musical number
of the course will perform on the
Grand stage on Friday, December A..
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. company
will fnaugurate first class line OF
array in music for the winter season.
Nine. Riheldaffer appeared at Vino
ma Lake over four years ago, and has
been an object of comment among
American lyceum managers ever
since. Alexander Won Skihinsky, the
celebrated Russian virtuoso, will be
there with some delicate work on the
violin, IL lie is able to keep out OF the
war. Both performers have appeared
alone in recitals previously. sim
gle admission OF S1.00 will be taken
for this splendid combination OF har-
mony.
The next thing on the program is
more music. The Zolliner quartette,
of Brussels, one Of the three leading
on earth, will stop in Fairmont on a
coast to coast tour. They played in
Europe as much as possible during
the summer. Musical critics rank
the world quartettes as follows, The
| Fionzaleys, the zolliners, and the
KneiseIs. Consisting of father,
two sons and a daughter, every men,
Der of the.company is brilliant solo
ist. Date, Friday, December IL. Ad-
mission, $1.00.
The last number before Christmas
will be on Wednesday, December 10,
when Edward Amherst OFT delivers
"The Haunted House," lecture OF
modern setting. 1t is study of the
secret mental power.
The midwinter season begins on
Tuesday, January 10, when the popu'
lar lecture OF the course will be pre-.
scented by Frank Dixon. He is or.
iginal, earnest, and uses funny illus
Itrations. He paints his words with
4 the truest colors OF oratory. s.
4 Glenn Frank has a brilliant. train.
cd mind, and fine personality He
will speak on social and industrial
problems on the evening of Monday
January IS. He is Of the, younger
set Of platformers, and presents his
topics in a correct and forceful man
ner. aset
| The final musical company pro
gram, will be purely American. The
Marcus A. Kellerman and company
players are artists In the true sense
Kellerman was born in the Queen
u City, but, contrived his greatest sue