The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-26
FINE PROGRAM
IS ANNOUNCED
FOR THIS YEAR
THE REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA
PROMISE MANY TREATS
FOR LOCAL PEOPLE ON
ANNUAL VISIT TO THE CITY

ANNUAL VISll IL f1E vi Y
Announcement has just been made
by the Redpath Chautauqua manage
ment that Julia Claussen, eminent
cOntralto of the Chicago Grand Opera
company, is to appear here on this
seasons chautauqua program. Pierre
Henrotte, concert meister, and Mar
eel Charlier, director of French operas
of the Chicago Opera company, are
the assisting artists. Nine, Claussen
and her family, also the assisting
artists, will travel over the chautau-
qua circuit in a private car
julius Claussen comes from the
! land long ago made famous by Jenny
Lind. Her versatility is apparent
when one stops to think that during
the Chicago grand opera season just
closed she sang in German, Italian
and French roles. On her chautauqua
tour she will sing a goodly portion
of her program in English. 1t is said
of Julia Claussen that she has never
had an adverse criticism.
A strikingly new note is seen in
this years program in the produc-
zion Of Percy Mackaye's Sane
tuary"-a Bird Masque and Pageant
with special costumes, and with a
woodlnd setting secured through a
newly invented process for throwing
pictures directly on the air without
the aid of screen. Ernest Harold
Baynes, the well known naturalist, is
to play the part of Shy, the natural
list, in this masque in the evening
and in the afternoon will give a
lecture on birds and animals.
The White Hussars. thirteen in all,
scheduled for two performances with
Alfred Sweet director. have developed
a high standard in band music and
they also appear as vocal choir OF
equal merit They have appeared for
four years in transcontinental tours
in which they have played in nearly
all the large cities.
| On the third night OF the cha,i-
tauqua, a half-hour's address will be
I given by an authority on the place
of the drama in community life, and
! this will be followed by The Parish
! Players in a presentation of q strong
and timely one-act drama, known as
I"The War Zone" "The Lady Teazfe"
scene from "The School for Scandal" !"
will next be presented, then a ro'
mantle play and lastly pleasing
one-act comedy.
The WeatherwaX Brothers, vocal
and trumpet quartet, who appear
early in the week, first appeared in
Iowa during the initial campaign OF
President Mckinley and have been
upon the platform ever since, delight
ing great audiences in all parts OF
the United States.
The Schumann quintet, also on the
chautauqua week program, a classical
chamber music organization, with an
established place in the musical
world, in addition to their orchestral
instruments, carry with them real
pipe organ--a novelty indeed for a
travelling organization.
On another evening the Killarney
girls and Rita Rich, a company of six
attired in Irish costumes and with ap
propriate stage setting, will present q
program of Irish music from the sim
pie folk lore to the classic.
Among the lecturers, Ng Poon Chew
former consul of the Chinese govern
ment to San Francisco, editor of tht
first Chinese paper in America. anc
long known as the Chinese MARI
Twain will lecture on "The New Chi
ma and Her Relations to the Western
: World"
Allen d. Albert, president Of thu
International Association of Rotary
clubs, chairman Of the Civic Fedora
tion of Minnesota, president of thu
Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences
and former editor Of the Minneapolis
Tribune, will deliver an evening lee
! ture on thi great program ION phases
of social welfare and community prob
lens.
William Rainey Bennett will ap
pear on the opening night in an in
oDII dtlOlldl lCtbuit having w dO Will
the elements of success and entitled
"The Man Who Can" Mr.. Bennet
has had the experience which enable
him to talk on this subject. II
started his college course with 81
and graduated with money in hi'
pocket, having paid his way by sing
ing.
DR. e. r. Hagerman who has oc
cupied the six leading pulpits of hi
denomination in six cities, geniu
in word painting. and his thought
: emphasized by natural wholesome, vii
t has the gift Of putting Fundamental
d, truths very simply. He will be hear
}. on the closing afternoon.
e A few other important features o.
the program will be announced latel