The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-23

Lecture-"Popular Science Demon
STATIONS Montraville Wood.
Admission soc, children 25c.
With the big chautauqua tent pack
ed to capacity yesterday afternoon a
little after o'clock the first note of
the week of chautauqua was sounded
when the Killarney Girls began their
program of Irish songs and stories.
The name Killarney is no more sug.
gestive of old Erin than were the
strains of Irish music, the Irish brogue
and the bright green costume so pop
ular in the hills of Killarney that has
stamped Ireland as the Isle of Green.
There was ginger and snap in every
expressed in everything except the
clever graces of the splendid stage
seasoned artists. The rare personal
lty expressed in the readings of Miss
Rita Rich, head of the company, and
her ability to carry the audience with
her, is seldom equalled. The ladies
who are promoting the chautauqua
here this year were highly pleased
with the initial number rendered by
the Redpath company.
The Introductory exercises were
conducted by Rev, c. e. Weltner and
the children's 5, hour by Miss Grace Gal
not, on american " Birds - N Story
Land" added splendid finishing
touches to the program OF the after
noon
The evening entertainment was
opened with concert by these same
lrish-looking. lrish-dressed and Irish
talking Killarney Girls, in all the
crispness of costume and grace of rem
'dition that. characterized their after
noon performance which was splendid
ly adapted to preparing the audience
for the lecture of the evening, which
ture OF the day
William Rainey Bennett was herald
ed in the city as "The Man Who Can"
His pictures were characterized with
firm expression, but the main thing
he can do is enthuse and inspire his
audience. He can do that in ordinary
conversation with an individual. Mr..
Bennett halls from Chicago but his an
cestors came from the aristocracy of
Virginia and South Carolina, having
emigrated to Indiana in an early day.
The Redpath company has several
men on their sales force whose ex-
penses it pays to wherever Mr.. Ben
nett happens to be lecturing in order
that they may quaff new pep for their
work. His lecture is a thriller and
calculated to make a man see life in
a different light when the world looks
blue.
Unlike most of the blue devil chas-
.ers, Mr.. Bennett reasons logically and
the impressions he gives are filled
with a depth of truth that sticks long
er than the waves of his voice lasts.
One of his particularly pungent ex-
pressions that characterizes the tenor
of his lecture is mo one kicks a bull
dog"
There will be no morning lecture to-
morrow and the chidren's hour by
The afternoon will be devoted to the
new program of songs and readings
by the Weatheraux brothers who will
render concert in the evening as an
introduction to the lecture of the eve
ming by Montraville Wood, who will
be assisted by his little daughter, AL
lene in popular science demonstra-
tons. Mr.. Woods particularly good in
ventions on torpedoes will be especial
ly interesting on account OF the pos
sible war between America and some
European country that may bring him
into the real limelight of America as
an important factor in combating the
enemy. His night in other places in
the past has always been popular
science night" on account of his espe-
cially interesting lecture.