The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-08-12
CHAUTAUQUA IS
IN FULL SWING
AUsPICiooS OPENING OF THE
1915 ASSEMBLY.
A SPLENDID CROWD PRESENT
The Tottens Make a Great Hit With
the Audience. Some Camp Notes
and An Outline of Pro-
gram for Tomorrow.

On the opening night of the 1916
Chautauqua, a typical Oskaloosa aud
fence was present and the entire aud
| itorium was full except the extreme
east and west portions of the reserved
seat section. 1t was little late when
President George w. Shockley, plat,
form manager DIR. u. NJ Edwards and
Rev. G. S. Farley, the pastor of the
Christian church came to the plat
form and after Rev. Farley had Of
fered the invocation the preliminary
exercises were also somewhat extend
ed, so that it was long after the hour
before The Tottens" began the work
of the evening
Mr.. Totten came to the platform
with all of the evidences of having a
severe cold and you could scarcely
hear him talk and then he was seized
with a severe coughing spelI-yOu
could almost see a wave Of sympathy
and disappointment pass over the aud
lience-when all of a sudden, he spoke
and the people realized that it was
d june. i IllO put VIC IiONO Ia SoOOh
humor and from this on Mr.. TOtten
had everything his own way.
| Some of his tricks Of magic were
those that have been done before but
always amuse and interest an aud
| fence, particularly when some one
else is the victim, such as taking dow
es' and chickens out OF mans peck
ct or from under his coat. A hat Dor
owed from the audience revealed quite
quantity of flowers "a pair of sus
| penders, handkerchiefs, etc, alto a
large quantity of paper ribbon OF var
! ious colors and finally from this mass
! two live doves were liberated.
Tricks are interesting.
A neat trick was that of the way
! they raise corn in Nebraska and fl
naIly changing it all to water. DR.. D
NJ. Edwards took part in the interest
ling trick OF shooting a ladies' ring
from a paper bag which was placed on
a chair TO a good sized box about fiji
teen feet away and the ring was fin
ally found inside of the second box
on the interior of a ball OF carpet
rags.
After various other novel tricks Of
magic, the work of Mr.. TOtten and his
daughter was brought together in the
trick of tying Miss TOtten in a large
sack and she making her escape with
out in any way injuring the sack OF
disturbing the knots. The CLOSING
tricks we're quick change impersona
tions of Mark Twain, General Grant
Theodore Roosevelt, the martyreC
President Mckinley, and lastly Miss
ITotten herself true to life.
AS a whole The Tottens" were
pleasing and interesting and thu
whole entertainment seemed to appea
Ito the amusement of the audience
They did not exhaust their supply
but seemed to hold large fund o
their talent in reserve. No card trickt
were displayed, no delusive display
from curtained cabinets but all was IL
the open where the whole audience
lcould see and enjoy The idea was t
AFFORD popular amusement to thos'
lpresent and in this The Tottens
were big success. The small boy wa
in his element and they had joyfu
time.
| At the close, three reels of movini
lpictures were shown and large sec
ton OF the audience stayed to Sc
them. Two reels from Poes Raven
and one of miscellaneous views. TIL
balcony contained the lantern and tn
Operator is located just in front c
the center post and is supported b
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