Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-07-20
THE SATURDAY AND sun
DAY ASSEMBLY SESSIONS

er's Festival Overture, the secont
Hungarian Rhapsodie and the spec
tacular finale of the evening pro
gram, Michaelis' The Village Black
smith-these stand out as mountain
peaks in two programs rich with th'
best classical music. Many in thu
two huge audiences compared Kry
with last years Quintano. Boil
bands are superb. Kryl's corne
places him in a class by himself
Quintano's band is the larger, but
critics note in Kryl certain finel
touches which they appreciate
Quintano often forces his brasses in.
to a tornado of harmonious sound
Kryl never. Kryl's cornet solos
charmed all who heard, and his band
will be more than welcome should it
ever come this way again.
Sunday the Cambridge Players in
troduced to the Webster City Chau-
tauqua still another type of prelude.
The company is made up of the fol-
lowing persons. Miss Laura Bitter,
(who gloriously bellies her name!)
soprano; Mr.. William Hamesworth,
pianologist; Miss Martha Miller,
reader and Mr.. Jesse Golfer, quick
observation-disclosures
impersonator. On week days this
company puts on delightful and
artistic play, but it being Sunday
yesterday they gave program the
spirit of which was in harmony with
the day. Miss Miller's reading, The
Littlest Rebel, and, Gin the evening"
The Convict Who Came Back, were
a fine portrayal of Sunday sentiment.
Mr.. Golfers representations and
quick-change monologues were
among the best the Freeman-Tribune
has ever seen. His, The Song of the
Red Cardinal, was a most forceful
sermon. In it an old Thoreau sort of
woodsman philosopher and lover of
natures charms lectures a scapegrace
of a Nimrod for trying to shoot a
poor little innocent gay dash of col
or and riot of song, happy, inno-
cent, triumphant red cardinal of
summertime. 1t is safe to say that
no boy in that audience will ever
again shoot an innocent bird with
out a lively twinge of conscience.
The Cambridge Players are among
the strongest that have appeared on
this years Chautauqua platform.
But the event of yesterday in the
big tent was the address in the af-
ternoon by Ng Poon Chew on the
new Chinese Republic. 1t will be Of
interest to the public to know that
the "Ng" in the lecturers name does
not stand for "no good" but is the
family name of the lecturer, and that
the other two syllables correspond to
our Christian names. Poon Chew
Ng, to put the name in western style,
is a scholar, philosopher, an edi-
tor, statesman, Presbyterian min
lister and man of affairs. Togeth-
er with DR.. Sun Vat Sen, Ng Poon
Chew had a good deal to do with
the agitation and organization which
resulted in the present Chinese Re-
public. This gives weight to all the
lecturer has to say. He is an able
speaker in English, and he uses the
correct English idiom with a delight
full foreign accent.
DR.. Ng thinks that the Chinese
revolution is the greatest event that
has ever occurred in history. In four
months a government had been over
thrown whose roots were more an
cient than any other government or
dynasty in the world. The United
States were the inspiration of the
revolution and American missionar-
les laid the foundations of the new
republic. For forty years the best of
China's youths had been educated in
our institutions of higher learning.
Going home, these American gradu-
ates, CDR. Ng is one of them) had
been the loaven of occidental civili-
zation in the old lump of pagan meal.
These new conditions forced the rev.
olution. Tears came to many eyes as
DR.. Ng recited the poem, Awake my
country, sweet Cathay, for there was
in his impassioned oratory the note
that has immortalized Patrick
Henry's famous speech during the
American revolution.
Ng Poon Chew acknowledged that
China has at present only a republic
in name, but, given time and most
urgently needed of all, freedom from
the brigand nations of Europe, he
says that China can surely work out