Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-07-01
COMMITTEE SECURES SEVERAL
FINE NUMBERS FOR WINTER
COURSE OF ENTERTAINMENT
ARTISTS COURSE DROPPED
Fusion of Two Courses Factor in
Strengthening Lyceum
Program

be by far the most AMBITIOUS course
which has ever been undertaken not
only will it have an additional number
there being seven instead of six, but
the talent in musical, lecture and fea-
ture entertainment lines will be far
and away ahead of any previous win
ter courses. An arrangement of signal
Importance has been made whereby the
annual musical artists course of the
college will be abandoned and two
musical artist numbers will feature
the Alma Lyceum Course. The man.
agement of both courses decided by
mutual consent that by cooperating in
this way, much better results would
be obtained and no disadvantages
would accrue
The committee consisting of Hira c.
Moore, Chairman, Prof j. T. Ewing,
secretary; John Knoertzer Treasurer;
l.. A. Sharp, Francis King and Prof.
A. F. Schultz which has the course in
charge, has accomplished eXtraordi-
nary results. There will be the two
musical artist concerts already men
toned a concert by a quintet, three
lecturers and a dramatic reader. The
dates for these numbers have not
been definitely arranged as yet.
The Schuman Quintet consists of
Carl Lampert, organizer and first vio-
lin, Nicolai Zedeler, cello, Norman Wei
Ter, second violin; jeanette Phillips,
Lampert, Pianist; and Merriam Zede-
Ter, organist. This quintet brings to
the Lyceum Course, a genuinely new
idea, that of presenting symphonic
concerts" with a company of only fine
musicians-each an artist. To secure
this symphonic effect a specially con-
structed reed organ is carried. This
gives all the reed and wind effects of
a large orchestra and combined with
the piano and stringed instruments,
produces an effect as surprising as it
is unique.
Miss Gay Zenola McLaren is the
dramatic reader who has been uni
versally denominated a genius. At
ter she had given a private recital
for the benefit of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
the famous writer wrote of her Il con-
slider Miss Gay Zenola MacLaren one
of the marvels of TIE age. She pos
sesses unique genius combined with
womanly beauty. 1t is a delight to
see and hear her" The following are
some of the, plays from which she
gives readings, within The Law.
peg o. My Heart" Bought and Paid
For", Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm,
''The sign Of the Cross, "The Man Of
the Hour, Romeo and Juliet" and
Daddy Long Legs
Miss Frncis Ingram, American Con-
tralto for one year each with the Chi
cago- Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. and
the Montreal Grand Opera Co. will
give an artist concert. She enjoyed
several seasons of unqualified success
in concert work. Both in Canada and
in the United States she has been her
aided as one of the greatest American
contraltos.
Harper's Weekly says of Russell II.
Conwell who is TO give one of his fam
Gus lectures as one of the members Of
the course, "Conwell is the most pop
ular lecturer in the world which state
mont can be sustained by the statistics
of the lecture bureaus; and while his
prices are high, lecture committees
have found him to be one of>the cheap
est men on the platform. This test
imonial from that periodical is suffi-
cient recommendation to most patrons
of the Alma Lyceum course.
What will undoubtedly prove one of
the most interesting entertainments of
the whole course in view of the inter-
national situation in the Far East will
be the lecture by Ng Poon Chew, the
eminent Chinese journalist, statesman
and scholar who will treat one of the
following subjects, "The Birth of Ma
ton" China and Her Burdens, The
European War And The Orient. These
are attractive subjects and any one of
them will appeal to Alma people
strongly. The view of a Chinese
daily paper in the United States and
has been given the name, "The Chinese
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