Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-05-08
Big Chautauqua
For Beach
Five-Day Attraction Will Be
Held in Beach Sometime Dur
ing July-Will Be a Big Enter
tainment Feature for Golden
Valley People.

concerned. on the evening be-
fore the date to be advertised,
and the entire evening will be
turned over to "Play:Festival'
for the children of the neighbor-
hood. his play festival will be
under the direction of compe-
tent supervisor.
The chautauqua will open with
a concert by the Merry Makers
Sextette, a jolly bunch of win
some girls, six in number. who
have a program of unusual merit
and variety. and this is to be fol-
lowed by lecture by Albert L.
Blair, the famous Boston journal
ist, on The Whirl of the News
paper Press.
In the evening these same girls
will furnish the full musical pro-
gran, and will consist of singing,
playing and doing various rnusi-
cal skltS.
The second day, Ruthrven Nc
Donald, the great Canadian bar
iton, will furnish the music ac-
companied by his talented wife.
After a prelude by this company,
Chaplain Louchir will deliver his
lecture on "A Thousand Million
Men," Chaplain Loucher was the
greatest success on our Chautau-
qua platform last year.
In the evening, after a prelude
by the Mcdonald company last
ing about forty-6ve minutes,
Walter r. Smith of Honolulu will
give his lecture on the Panama
canal. Mr.. Smith will throw up
on a screen steropticon views OF
the Panama ditch and also ex-
hibit some motion pictures show
ing some of the construction work
in actual progress. Next to a
trip to Panama. this is going to
be the best thing going for ac-
curate information on the sub
ject.
On the third dav, the after
noon program will be opened by
the Meister Singers Male Quar-
tet, followed by literary treat
from Opie Read, the great Amer
lean novelist.
In the evening of the third the
Meister Singers Quartet will put
on full evenings program.
On the fourth day. the prelude
number is given by The Boyds. a
versatile little company made up
of a man and his wife who have
spent years on the platform and
who are capable of giving a
; great variety of literary and mus
ical entertainment. They will be
followed in the afternoon by a
lecture by Lucia A. Stevenson. a
woman who has spent much Of
her life in the Canadian north
west and who will lecture on the
ways and customs of that people.
In the evening after a prelude
by the Boyds, the Hon. Arthur
K. Peck of Boston will deliver an
illustrated lecture on the Live
Saving Service" that will be full
of thrills and realistic scenes illus
trated by the use of a powerful
stereoptican.
On the closing day. Fehrante 8
Hungarian Orchestra will furnish
the music. giving a prelude oi
forty-6ve minutes in the after
noon. followed by a lecture By
Dr.. Isaac Wood. Of Trenton. N.
j.. one Of the strongest lecturers
of the entire country.
In the evening, the orchestra
will put on a full musical program
assisted by two Grand Opera
singers, MIR. Donald Bourhiel
who is famous in musical circles
in Chicago. and Miss Isabelle
Courtney, who has a beautiful
soprano voice and is fully cap.
able of sustaining part in the best
musical company.
All in all. it is a wonderful
program-every day being cram.
med full of the best there is OBJ
tainable and coming at time
when the people will need some
recreation of this sort.
The children's work will be
carried out in the forenoon as
heretofore.
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The Misses Stasia McKeeve,
and Vera Hartung left for Beach
SATURDAY. afternoon. wheve thex