Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-21
: ABOUT OUR cHAUTAUQUA
Continued from Page one)
sparkling, bright, happy and beauti-

money is Doing pdlu DIS Is usually
paid for an entire week of music
This will be perhaps the most talked
of band in America this year, and
| there is no better band in the world.
Thaviu and his band were selected to
open the Exposition at San Francis
co, next they will open the famous
Electric Park at Kansas City, then
make our Chautauqua tour, fill two or
| three state fair engagements (many
more have been offered but the band
could not accepO and then this great
musical aggregation will return to
San Francisco for the close of the
Exposition The San Francisco pa
pers are right now extravagant and
are devoting much space to the
praise of this great little Russian
band master and his splendid band
The European Grand Opera Sing
ers are distinctly different from 9th
| er features of the program, and alone
are well worth the time and expense
of attending the program.
There are two companies. the chief
purpose of which is to make people
laugh. These are the Rincr Sisters
and the Bonnie Brooke-Fay Ingram
combination, known as the Chautau-
qua Entertainers. Their work is en-
tirely different, although there is a
laugh in almost every line of the pro-
gram of each.
Probably the company that will
stand out biggest and strongest, next
to the band, will be the Killarney
Girls with Rita Rich. Here is q
company beautifully costumed, made
up of splendid type of lady enter
tainers and musicians, any one OF
whom is capable of furnishing the
evening of entertainment herself. The
program has been prepared especial
ly for them. This is their fourth sue.
cessful tour. Already they have mad,
two trans-continental tours. covering
the entire United States from San
Francisco to New York. There is
much pathos. much humor, much that
is bright and airy, but more than any
thing else there is deep, fine, splen-
did note of heart-interest running
through their work.
| One other company of decided
hcart-interest, but entirely different
is the American Girls. 1t is well nam
ed, the program is built around a
beautiful idea and depicts the opic OF
the American Girl. and she is intro
duccd in appropriate costumes of the
original Indian girl. the Puritan girl
the Colonial girl, the first D. A. r..
the girl of our grandmother's time,
and the modern girl. They all sing:
they all play instruments, how many
instruments ! can't say. there are SO
many. Not before in years has so
popular an attraction appeared. This
is their third tour without change OF
personnel.
| The highest mark OF artistic merit
is reached in the Van Clostcr recitals
This truly remarkable singer, Mrs
| Van Closter, has had wide experience
in concert and grand opera work. and
she will be ably supported by How
ard Hanson. a brilliant young west
ern pianist, ceilist. and composer. To
add distinction and variety to the
work. Mr.. Ned Woodman. himself
one of the best known entertainers
on the platform, will appear both af-
tcrnoon and night.
Another attraction of decided mer-
it is the Schulz Robbins Company,
headed by Professor Forrest Schulz
head of the violin department OF the
| Horner Institute of Fine Arts: Floyd
Robbins, head teacher in the piano
department of the same institution
and featuring Miss Enid Tillotson Of
New York. one of the coming young
singers of the country.
The truly entertainment features
are as thoroughly varied and novel
as the musical numbers.
| Heading the list, OF course. is Mr.
Adrian NJ. Newens, probably the best
known entertainer in America, tho
man who became famous in his
Message From Mars" whose visit
to many towns is made an annual
event, and who perhaps has done
more to inspire young folks and old
folks to better life through the
medium of entertainment than any
other man whom the platform af-
fords.
In many of the towns of the circuit
Mr.. Newens has appeared twice or
three times, or more. All such places
will be happy to know of Mr.. New
ems returning, particularly since he
comes WITH splendid new master
piece an entertainment which will be
given for the first time this year. en-
titled "To Him That Hath" This is
a story of thrilling heart interest. car
rying with it great deal of humor
as well.
Then we have Mr.. Sidney Landon,
who was over this circuit four or five
years ago. have been trying to get
him ever since. / finally succeeded
in getting him to come back by offer
ing to add 25 per cent to the biggest
salary he could get anywhere else.
Landon is better than ever before.
as he has brand new program, in.
Producing great literary characters.
There is something almost uncanny
in Landon's art, that is truly remark
able, to see what appears to be the
living breathing persons of Tolstoi.
Mark Twain. Edgar Allen Poe, Long
fellow and many other we'll known
literary characters.
Jess Pugh is going to be saved un-
til the last night. That is fortunate
because people will laugh so much
they will scarcely be able to attend