The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-06-04
The Chautauqua.

Union City is to have this year the
fourth annual meeting of the Redpath
Chautauqua, seven days of the best en-
tertainment and the best talent that
that platform affords.
The program is complete with every
branch of literature, art, science and
music. The drama is also represented
with the very best opponents, and we
want to emphasize the fact that no city
outside of Jackson in West Tennessee
is undertaking to furnish its people with
the big Redpath show, the biggest and
the best on the road. Quite number
of places are using the Redpath, but in
limited form, with five days and only
portion of the program.
Now, we are not undertaking to dis
credit any other chautauqua, but to call
the attention of our people to the fact
that Union City is paying for bigger
talent and more of it in order that we
may have the benefit of an educational
work of the largest scope obtainable
and entertainment of the best charac-
ter to be found.
Conspicuous among these features of
the work may be mentioned the big
concert band of thirty or more pieces,
with Signor Pallara as conductor. This
band appears on Thursday, the fifth
day of the chautauqua. Pallaria is said
to be a second edition of Creatore in
action. Whether he sings or not to the
players, we dom know, but he does the
acrobatic turns in tragic style. The
band is made up principally of Italians,
who are natural born musicians, the
disciples of the immortal Verdi, who
was greater in his own country than all
the kings and princes.
Then comes our own Alice Nielsen,
one Of the great prima donna sopranos
of the world Miss Nielsen is a native
of Tennessee, and she comes back to
her State, like Rev. Bert Hampton
boy, a cosmopolitan. She has discard
ed provincialism. She is one of the
great artists, and she comes back to us
an her own private car to sing to the
people of the rural communities who
have seldom been favored with voices
of her rank. Miss Nielsen has career
which ranges all the way from an OBJ
scure beginning to the highest position
in music and drama. Her first notable
success was in Maid Marion in Robin
Hood then again at the head of her
own company which rivaled all the 9TH
ers at the time. Then her ambition
took her to Paris under the celebrated
vocal teachers and she became grand
opera star of the first magnitude, sing
ing with Caruso and many other nota
bles in the leading European and Amer
lean cities. She comes back to Tonnes
ste dllu W YOU duO GlIdb We may ChJOS
the great works OF the music world.
One of the features of the present
Redpath Chautauqua season is the en-
gagement of William Owen and his
company in Chas. Ram Kennedy's
drama, The Servant in the House,"
one of the strongest character works in
all the modern drama. Mr.. Owen, it |
is said, since the opening of the chau-
tauqua season, has not only sustained
his former reputation on the stage, but
he and his company are scoring at all
the meetings as one of the popular at
fractions of the week, rivaling in the
honors of the entire program.
Then comes, not next in importance,
but first in all probability in the hearts of
our people, the platform orator, Frank
Dixon, who will appear this year in the
Local Survey, or Taking Stock of
Town" Frank Dixon is peer of any
of the platform speakers. This state
ment cannot be successfully challenged.
We do not believe the great commoner
himself has more of the Grecian cult |
than Frank Dixon, and we are sure