The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-11
CHAUTAUQUA HAS
LARGER CROWDS
THAN BEFORE
Increased Interest Is Proved BY
the Attendance
TWO FINE PROGRAMS GIVEN
One More In Progress This Afternoon
While the Feature Tonight Will
Be coangeIa's Band

The third consecutive year OF Ben
nington Chautauqua began Thursday
afternoon at o'clock when the Chau-
tauqua parade started on Park street
near the graded school where the tent
has been erected this year The par
ade was hurriedly organized and CON
sisted of the Bennington City band,
automobiles containing the members
of the G. A. r.. decorated auto with
the Wohela campfire girls, the Fisk
Bicycle club, and professions of chill
dren carrying many colored Chautau-
qua banners The parade passed
down Main street and then returned
to the grounds for the opening Of the
first program.
The programs which were rendered
In the afternoon and evening to aud
fences which taxed the tent to its seat
ing capacity were pleasing to the local
supporters OF Chautauqua Or. Jesse
II. Holmes, the local superintendent
of the entertainment, took the plat
form with Rev. George S. Mills, John
r. McRoy and Phillip T. II. Pierson.
Mr.. McRoy, president OF the local
guarantors, spoke a few words vel
coming, the Chautauqua to Bennington
and then introduced Dr. Holmes who
gave a short address on the aims and
the value OF Chautauqua. He dealt
with it's organization and growth and
gave an account Of its arrangements
and financial management. The
Chautauqua is not a money making
organization, but one which brings to
a wide circuit of towns the best avail
able talent for entertainment and the
greatest orators of our national public
life. DR.. Holmes expressed his faith
| IN the business men OF the country
| whom he always finds willing to do
their best to support educational
causes and who unselishly sacrifice
their time in making such events pos
siblc,
The address of DR.. Holmes was fol
lowed by concert by the Folk Song
Quintet which is composed OF the
Misses Irma Phillips, Ruth Doria,
Ruth Garland and Warren Brown, and
Arthur A. Myers. Humorous recita-
! tions were given by Miss Garland and
solos, duets and quartettes by the com
| pany. Two features OF the concert
were the Bohemian and Russian dan
ces and folk songs in costume.
The concert in the evening was
opened with the quartette Good
Evening" and was followed by the
| quartette Bubbles with n solo by
Miss Doria. The folk songs, Little
Irish Girls" and Love Song were
rendered by Mr., Brown and the com
pany gave a medley Of nursery
rhymes. Exceptionally well rendered
were the tenor solos, Little pint
Rose" and when My Caravan Has
Rested. Miss Garland delighted the
audience with her reading OF "Wo
mans Wednesday Evening" which
included lectures on The Newes
Thought" and "Woman Suffrage"
The concluding sketch of the quinte
was impressive. Miss Garland In tn,
dress of n red cross nurse was writ
ing from the field to her brother. tell
ing him OF the horrors OF war TIL,
quartette sang softly from behind thl
curtain, "Tenting on the Old Cam
Ground" and Just Before the Battle
Mothe'"
Following the concert, Dr. Holme
made announcements concerning IN
programs fog the next few days an
told of the Junior Chatauqua which /
to be free to children each morning
/, He then introduced Ross Crane. pain
er. sculptor and humorist who appeal
, ed upon the stage with large sheets q
paper on an easel for painting an
, with a standard for his work as
clay sculptor.
Mr.. Cranes address entitled "Lool
9 ing Human Nature in the Face, wa
delivered MS he worked and was ilm
trated by his paintings. As he pain
q, ed. he gave large variety of ane
dotes containing humor and philo
ophy which the marked ability and 4
:, lent Of his painting portrayed IN a
- intimate manner. The most strikr
" picture was "Swanee River" show!-
= the candle light glimmerlns thfoug
:, the window and reneetel ipun u
" wato.
= With his brush he humorouslv rei
Ia onstrated the evolution OF tile hum,
,s race according to Darwin aud are
busts of three people whose ohare
90 ters could be ascertainod by the sty
,s OF their whiskors.
- In the clay he deity moulded !
- faces of General Robert r. Lee. Unr
6 Sam. and Abraham Lincoln 9th
caricaturos were also formed and {
plained by the sculptor
On OF the most interesting featur
of the evening were the photograp
rn of Bennington people which had be
ht snapped during the afternoon and We
shown upon the screen by the use ol