Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-10-14
Lyceum Course This Year
Promises to be the Best
Ever Here
AN ALL STAR ENTERTAINMENT
College Musical Department Will Co.
operate With Lecture Beureau
This Season

The Lyceumi Course Committee de-
sires to announce for the coming sea-
son the biggest and best course ever
presented in Alma. This statement
is made with the complete confidence
that the judgment of the public will
endorse it heartily when the Alma
/ Lyceum Course of 1915-16 has gone
down in the history of the local y
lift and enlightening entertainment
The Alma College Musical Course
and the Lyceum course have com
bined with result that an amalgam-
ated course of unusual merit can be
offered. Not only does the course
contain some of the very foremost
American lecturers and educators.
but it also contains musical artists of
national renown-artists whose names
are household words to the musical
public of our large cities.
There will be seven numbers i'm all.
%. James A. Burns, Burns of
the Mountains" founder and presi-
dent of Oneida Institute, Or aida, Ken
lucky, college founded to save his
own people from degeneracy and
feuds. President J. A. Burns is of
1.-The breed of Lincoln" prophet with
an honest heart and an upright pur-
pose. In all his life he attended
school but seventeen months, yet few
men have done more wonderful
work than that which he has done for
the ilfiterate Kentucky mountaineers.
His message is the story of his work,
simple, direct and absorbing.
(2). Ng Poon Chew, "the Chinese
Mark Twain" THE Father of Chinese
Journalism in America" a brilliant
speaker, a Chinese gentleman, states
man, scholar and editor DR.. Chew
presents a lecture with mastery mag
netism, logical argument and brist-
ling with Oriental wit, which. by the
way. is keen wit His English is per-
feet, his oratory eloquent. No lecture
on foreign theme can be more timely
than this vivid word picturing of the
unmaking and recasting of China.
(3). Gay Zenola MacLaren, "a
genius in initiative recitals of fam
Gus plays Miss MacLaren is un-
ique, according to Ella Wheeler Will
COX zone of the marvels of the age"
She attends metropolitan produc-
ticn Of a great modern play five times
and then without having read the or
iginal book or dramatization, can go
upon the Lyceum platform and give
an initiative recital of the entire pro
duction, initiating every character
She seems as if by magic to have
large company of players at her com
mand they enter, render their lines,
and exit with such distinctness as to
cause her hearers to mentally witness
the play enacted by full East.
(4). The Schumann Quintet. This
company of only five musicians brings
genuinely new idea. that of present
ing symphonic concerts" surprising
ly like those of large orchestra
This effect is produced by a specially
constructed reed organ giving all the
reed and wind tone quality combined
with the piano and stringed instru-
ments. The leader of this organizza-
NJ. A g..
years played first violin with the
Theodore Thomas Orchestra of Chi
cago, now known as the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra.
(5). Mr.. Burton Thatcher, Chica-
go Bass-B Baritone. His phenomenal
success in recital has been the musi-
cal sensation of the past few seasons.
Four years ago he was practically
unknown and i'm that short time he
has achieved success that has
placed him among the few greatest
artists in the concert field. Among
the important musical organizations
for which he has appeared as soloist
may be mentioned the Chicago North
Shore Festival, the Chicago Apollo
Club, Evanston Musical Club. Chica-
go Symphony Orchestra. Indianapolie
singverein and the Milwaukee Mus
ical Society. He is the possessor of |
a remarkably brilliant and resonant
voice, full Of great power to which
his enthusiasm and magnetism of
manner lend additional charm.
(G). Russell II. Conwell, "a self
made man." founder and president of
Temple University, a co-educational
institution which began
in 1854 with two students and since
has enrolled over 10000 young men
and women. Mr.. Conwell's preaching
at Temple Church, Philadelphia, draws
such crowds of listeners that for ten
years admission has been obtained by