The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-06-30
DRAMATIC TREAT
AT CHAUTAUQUA
MRS. DELLA CROWDER MILLER
PLEASED LARGE AUDIENCE
THIS AFTERNOON
Tonight Col. George w. Balm, Noted
Lecturer, VIII Make Address-TO-
morrow Last Day of ChautauQua

This afternoon at the chautauqua the
Gullotta trio entertained the audience
with the prelude to the feature ad-
dress by Mrs. Della Crowder Millc
in her dramatic Interpretation of Be
Hur. In her morning lecture she sroke
on the modern forms of literature. I'm
der this head she gives two periods
this morning illustrating the lives OF
famous authors and closing she was
called to give one of her own mono
logs Tonight Colonel George w
Balm will give one of his popular lee
lures "The Man Worth While" To
morrow marks the close of the 1871!
chautauqua and an excellent program
is promised in the Swiss Alpine Yod-
lers and Evelyn Bargelt, Toe cartoonist
No artist in any line yet appearing
here has held an audience in such
rapt attention as did Mrs. Miller when
she gave to our people her magnifi-
cent Interpretation of that great Am
erican classic, Ben Hur."
She gives spiritual significance to
her work that leaves a most decided
impression upon her hearers. Art is
only secondary to her personality and
in delineating the characters of this
story her strong, lovable, sympathetic
personality made an appealing back
orr which nD1U intnn cifin6 tho
dramatic scenes. No one can hear
her in this drama and not feel an
inspiration to higher ideals and real
izations The drama was interesting.
She left lasting impression upon her
auditors that will linger through the
years. So long as the chautaqua
brings such artists as Mrs. Miller to its
platform, the ideals of the founders Of
this great educational institution are
certainly in no danger of deteriorat-
ing.
At the Tuesday evening session OF
the chautauqua, the audience was
given something entirely new in the
way of entertainment. Father Mac
Cory, the speaker, is an orator of the
first rank The lecture, "The Story
Beautiful" was vivid description
Of the worlds best paintings, repre-
senting the life of Christ. The story
began with the annunciation to Mary,
and was carried through from infancy,
he visit of the wise men, the flight
nto Egypt, with the return, to Naz-
lreth, and the visit to Jerusalem at
welve years of age and then through |
he years of His ministry. The |
graphic and dramatic description by |
he speaker, excellent in themselves,
by the pictures, were even
more vivid. The lantern was of the
lind that permitted the throwing oil
wo pictures at one time. This made
possible the appearance of the tra-
itional child that accompanied the
tar in guiding the wise men to the
,hrist child; the lightning when
,hrist was on the cross, and suffering
f Christ and Mary The story closed
With the ascension of Christ. At GER
ain places in the life of Christ where
vents have inspired poets and hymn
,riters, Mr. Macdonald sang the
ymns, thus adding to the beauty or
athos of the scene.
In addition to the description of
he pictures being shown, Father
[acCorry gave an occasional lesson ,
ON the event painted; as when the
icture was shown wherein the wom-
n, taken in adultery, was brought
Christ, there was given to the 7
ldience a conception of the injus- :,
ce that will carve the woman's
anne in stone, and write that of the
an in dust" the one to be erased
a short while, the other to last :.
rough eternity He declared that
e great God did not have one law
r man and another for women,
at God was no respector of sex, but
at sin was sin. =
The scenes used are paintings made =
ON the originals for this lecture.
,ssibly such a collection of pictures =
ould be impossible after the close =
the carnage now raging in Europe.
.ther MacCorry expressed his salts
ction that he was the possessor OF
valuable a collection.
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