South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-24
F NAL PROGRAM
IS DELIGHT To
OPERA LOVERS
Nine. CIauSSen, VioliniSt Hen
rOtte and Pianist Charlier
Bring Chautauqua to
Successful Close.

brought South Bends chautauqua
season TO a close in Almost delightful
manner Wednesday evening. Her
recital alone would have been suf-
hcient 10 make the season a MEM
orable one. Her beautiful voice and
happily selected numbers were made
doubly enjoyable 10y the warmth
and intensity OF the feeling which
put into each song And of the
mIsic of Pierre Henrotte too much
cannot be said. Seldom has South
Bend had the pleasure of hearing so
finished a violinist
Contributes Three Groups.
Mime. Claussen contributed three
groups 10 the program and Mr. Hen
rottee two. Both responded grac-
icusly 10 repeated encores. The
power and dramatic possibilities OF
the singers voice were perhaps
brought out 20 best advantage i'm the
Aria from La Refine de Saba"
(Gounod). though the numbers
which proved more popular with her
audience were those i'm which the
sweetness and sympathy which she
was so capable of expressing were
most effectively brought out. Among
these were "Schmerzen" (Wagner),
Bid Me Live" OLuck). Cradle
Song" CMacFayden). What's in the
Air Today" CRobert Eden. and her
three encores. From the Land OF
the Sky-B Blue Water (Cadman). "A
Perfect Day tBond). and My old
Kentucky Home"
shading Is Exquisite.
With exquisite shading and tonal
perfection Mr. Henrotte rendered
among other numbers. Concert in
r Minor (Mendelssohn), "Minuet''
beethoven. Caprice Niennois''
CKreisler). and Souvenir" CDrdla).
Mr.. Henrotte is concert meister of
the Chicago Grand opera company.
Marcel Charlier, conductor Of the
Chicago Grand Opera company. ac-
companied Nine. Claussen in fin
ished and sympathetic manner.
Following the concert an informal
reception was held for Nine Claus
sen on the stage by the members Of
the Progress club, who also decOrat-
ed the stage very attractively as
courtesy 10 the singer
World We Live In.
The World We Live IN" was the
theme of she final lecture on the
chautauqua program given Wednes-
day afternoon by DR.. +. r. Hager-
man Dr. Hagerman is Methodist
minister and has occupied pulpits
in DesMoines. Milwaukee and other
places. As lecturer. DR. Hager-
man II not of the dramatic. eNplo-
sive style, but a speaker who grows
on his audience the longer he talks.
In part he spoke as follows.
The size of the world we live i'm
depends entirely upon our view
point. The boy standing on mis-
fathers doorstep concludes that the
world he lives in is just as large as
the circle formed 10y the horizon.
His conclusion. based upon his
knowledge. is correct and were he
to remain always the boy on the
doorstep. his world would never en-
large.
with an increase of knowledge
comes an enlargement of world and
a multiplicity of problems new and
difficult to solve When we as indi-
viduals and as a nation cease to
have problems that demand our
closest attention We may write the
word over our archways that indi-
Gates our Glory Has Departed
An absence of problems means
stagnation.
World ON Inside.
our world is on the inside and
not on the outside We are equipped
with machinery built 10 do certain
work and unless that machinery is
used it viii not perform its mission.
The eye and the ear are wonderful
in their construction. but the some
thing back of the eve and ear must
use those instruments if they are to
be brought TO highest usefulness
Ills not enough that we have brain
in our skulls other animals have
as perfect brain in formation and
color as ours No brain viii think
without a thinker our world de-
ponds wholly on the use the thinker
makes of the machine
This is true in every line OF our
development. our tastes are varied
and many We are responsible TO
a very marked desree for what we
like and dislike we are wont TO
declare that certain things have no
merit Frequently our opinion il
based not upon "a careful analysis of
the question but upon the fact that
we do not agree OF that we do not
enjoy and ON account OF this we
declare with strong emphasis
There's nothing 10 it,
short on Judgment.
For the most part we are hong
on opinion and short ou Judgment
which demands careful discrimina-
tion The man OF pure opinion Is
apt 10 DE bigoted self-satished.
bOorish The man who says. ] do
not agree with YOU. DO not think
YOU are correct. but ] shall think il
II over. that man VIII grow. There
Il little hope for development I'm the
man who SAYS, Q DO not agree ana
drops the matter without further
consideration Change OF mind 's