Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-14
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
NEXT TUESDAY
Wonderful Array of High Class Tai
ent Will Entertain Our People
for Eight Days.
MIDLAND PROGRAM
A HIGH CLASS ONE
Fifteen Programs Will be Given
During the Eight Days. Season
Tickets Cost Only $500.

AS rule the size of the town in
which any Chautauqua appears is
good indication of the quality of the
program. Generally speaking the
smaller towns take the cheaper pro-
grams while the larger places get the
high priced stuff. Many will be inter-
ested in learning that the Midland
Chautauqua program which will ap-
pear in Decorah June 10th to 9th
will also appear in such places as
Faribault, Mimi, Northfield, Crooks
ton, Mankato and whole string of
the larger places through the Dako-
tas, western Iowa and the south
west, one of the most notable being
Lincoln, Nebr., the largest Chautau-
qua in that state, which has bought
the Midland program outright.
A special feature of this years
program will be the Junior Chau-
tauqua in charge of Miss Marjorie
Parmenter, who will conduct play
ground session each morning at $3.50
and story hour each afternoon at
4 O'Clock. All children holding a
childs season ticket (price $1.00)
will be admitted to all OF the Senior
IChautauqua programs in addition to
1.-THE Junior Chautauqua programs
held each morning and afternoon.
The Junior Chautauqua will be
known as Junior Town" The chill
Idren will elect their own Law and
Order League, their own Health
lComp' ssioner, Cleanup Officer and
other tosn offl9ials. During the
week they will also be drilled in and
present the new play entitled Uncle
Sans Experiment, and Uncle Sam
himself will be in it, New songs
written especially for this event will
be learned and sung. New games
will be played; new stories will be
told and special badges for the Com
missioner and members will be fur
nished in addition.
Junior Chautauqua will no doubt be
far reaching. If possible every mo-
ther should attend the sessions in or
der to gather ideas that will help her
throughout the remainder of the
year to make the childrens play,
hours Of development. Be sure and
urge the children to earn their own
money and remind them that the
Chautauqua will meet every day be-
ginning with Wednesday, June 21st,
at $3.50 and at o'clock in the af-
ternoon. Any child from 6 to Il
years of age may be member by pur-
chasing child's season ticket. "The
Children of Today Will be the Men
and Women of Tomorrow"
1t sometimes happens that Chau-
tauqua program includes few num-
bers which are light. This has hap
pened before now in programs pre-
sented in Decorah. This year the To-
cal committee has made special ef-
fort to prevent the appearance of any
numbers which were not known to
be strictly high class in every partic-
ular. AS result of their efforts the
program which will appear next
week has no light spots, but is heavy
weight stuff throughout.
This years program is unusually
we'll balanced, entertainment and
music being furnished in just the
right proportion to the lectures. Car
meliny's Old Colonial Band of ten
pieces which opens the program
Tuesday evening is high class or
ganization in which quality makes
up for quantity.
Sunday afternoon June %, the
Sibyl s-MacDermid Co. give a
short prelude, but Sunday evening
they will appear in Sacred Concert
which will no doubt be keenly ap-
preciated by Decorah music lovers.
Kachers Metropolitan Singers and
Miss Helen Smith who appear Mon
day afternoon in a short prelude and
again Monday evening in a Grand
Concert are highly satisfactory judg-
ing by their press reports.
No words Of praise need be spoken
for the Hugh Anderson operate Co.
which appeared last year under se-
we're difficulties. This numb& has
been secured as extra measure for
this years program and the organi-
zation consists Of the same people
who appeared here a year ago.
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