The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-06-18
FAVORABLE OPENING OF
UNION CITY CHAUTAUOUA
Fourth Annual Meeting of the
Seven-day Program.

II People of Union City and vicinit
seem to be much in love with the chau
III tauqua movement. The advance sale
II while not SO much a novelty as the first
met with the same success. The ad
vance in price caused a little comment
but the sale went right ahead just th,
same. AS Mr.. Long says, our people arr
| exhibiting greater love for knowledge
ii Superintendent Blackwood, who ar.
| rived here in the absence of Mr.. Cham.
bers, the latter being transferred to an
other place, and his assistants had the
tent pitched Friday, and on Saturday
they we're ready for business. Mr.. Black
wood, who by the way, promises to be-
come as popular as Mr.. Chambers, lays
great stress on the work here this year,
especially the leading numbers, Miss
Nielsen and the players. He says that
the company is paying Miss Nielsen
800, 900 for twenty weeks, and the ex-
pense of expressing concert grand
piano from place to place, besides the
expense of the Nielsen special car This
sets at rest the claim that the weeks
talent is not more expensive than usual,
and gives the people an idea of what
the undertaking really is. With the
band-thirty musicians at $40 per day
each-the regular union scale for two
concerts day, their hotel bills and rail
road fare, and Miss Nielsen something
like six or seven hundred dollars for the |
engagement here, the two items alone
will exceed one thousand dollars for the
week.
But Union City has decided that she
must have the chautauqua, the higher
the entertainment the better So lust
consider what we are getting for so. 50.
1t will cost 50 a seat in any first-class
theatre to hear Miss Nielsen in concert.
IS in grand opera. To hear William
Owen and company in the Servant in
the House" at the theatre will cost So
a seat. The band could be heard prob :
ably in summer concerts some cheaper,
but here you have three numbers which,
at the regular theatrical season stands.
will cost as much as our entire program.
There is no guess work in these figures.
We should consider ourselves fortunate
indeed that we can arrange with people
of this rank at the small admission price
Of $3.50 week. 1t should be appreci- {
ated as special privilege to get the 3
array of celebrities and their best work
1t the price. Miss Nielsen is compar-
atlvely a young woman, and her Won
ierful vocal gifts are at their zenith.
She was little more slender, slightly r
o, when she tripped on the stage as e
Maid Marion, but her vocal powers have
'een developed since then. There re-
Mains just as much of the native sweet
ess in tonal qualities, with the added z.
eauty of shadings, colorings and power
t control. To miss Miss Nielsen's con-
ert Saturday night will be to miss one
the opportunities of lifetime. II
But to get back, the Music Makers W
oenod the Saturday program, the first r,
umber of the chautauqua, four young ri
len who have been compared favorably TT
ith the Weatherwax Brothers, so pop LIZ
ar here before. They are vocal ki
Is and instrumentalists, and the pro- 20
am, afternoon and evening, was made II
} of heavy and popular works. They -,
e also entertainers with some pleasant On On
terlardings of humor. The opening NJ
tn the Music Makers was indeed G.,
propos. To
Sylvester Long appeared at the even -
9 entertainment. Mr.. Long is a Of
sdpath favorite. He is community con
ilder, and he quotes from the text, citi,
and Toothpicks. He lays sms
5 foundation on the fact that natures will,
exorable laws cannot be violated with sent
t the penalty. Men and women should eirl
Dire to the position and station in the Hor
rid for which nature has created them. INN
fight these elements is to invite ofte
uble and defeat. Community build NJ
, is done by people of character and rro0
diligence, men and women who find III.
re genuine happiness in the environ
nts of home, church, school than in
lure of the world. The effort to Oh
de the responsibilities of life, wheth- ons
hey be for home building, character Gu
community building, sends men and ",e ,
men out into the world battling c. c.
inst the forces of nature. and so Che
as the day follows the night the sides
d of retribution comes. As the does
on grows older the earning no1uer IJer