Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-28
cHAuTAuQUA WILL
OPEN IN BELDING
TUESDAY, AUGUST |
OPENING PROGRAM WILL BE
GIVEN BY KILLARNEY GIRLS
AND RITA RICH

The date set for the Chautauqua in
Belding is August /. The program
is of the usual high order and is
meeting with big success all along
the course.
Julia Claussen, eminent contralto
of the Chicago Grand Opera Com
pany, will appear on the seasons pro-
gram. Pierre Henrotte, concert meis-
ter, and Marcel 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 Chautauqua circuit in private
car.
A striking new note is seen in this
years program in the production OF
Percy Mackeye's Sanctuary"
Bird Masuue and Pageant with spec
setting secured through a newly in
vented process for throwing pictures
directly on the air without the aid of
a screen. Ernest Harold Baynes, the
well-known naturalist, in this masque
in the evening, and in the afternoon
will give lecture on birds and ami
mails.
The White Hussars, thirteen in all,
scheduled for two performances with
Alfred Sweet, director, have develop
ed a high standard in band music and
they also appear as vocal choir of
equal merit. They have appeared for
four years in ans-continental tours
in which they have played in nearly
all the large cities.
On the third night of the Cbau-
tauqua, a half-hour's address will be
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 strong
and timely one-act drama, known as
sThe War Zone" "The Lady Teazle"
scene from "The School for Scandal"
will next be presented, then a ro-
mantle play and lastly pleasing
one-act comedy.
The Schumann Quintet, also on the
Chautauqua week program, CLASH
cal chamber music organization, with
an established place in the musical
world, in addition to their orchestral
instruments, carry with them a real
pipe organ-a novelty indeed for
travelling organization.
In the opening program the Kiliar
ney Girls and Rita Rich, company of
six. attired in Irish costumes and
present a program of Irish music
from the simple folk lore to the clas-
sic.
Among the lecturers, Ny Poon
Chew, former consul of the Chinese
government to San Francisco, editor
of the first Chinese paper in America,
and long known as the Chinese
Mark Twain" will lecture on "The
New China and Her Relations to the
Western World"
Allen ID. Albert, president of the
International Association of Rotary
Clubs. chairman of the Civic Fedora
ton of Minnesota, president of the
Minnesota Academy of Social
Sciences, and former editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune, will deliver an
evening lecture on this great pro-
gram on phases of social welfare and
community problems.
William Rainey Bennett will APP
pear on the opening night in an in
spirational lecture having to do with
the elements of success and entitled
"The Man Who Can" Mr.. Bennett
has had the experience which enables
him to talk on this subject. He
started his college course with SO
and graduated With money in his
pocket, having paid his way by sing
ing.
DR.. z. T. Hagerman who has oc-
cupied the six leading pulpits of his
denomination in six cities, genius
in word painting, and his thoughts
emphasized by natural wholesome
wit, has the gift of putting funda-
mental truths very simply. He will be
heard on the closing afternoon.
The usual attention will be given
to morning hour and the children's
playground work; in fact, the story
tellers or playground workers will re-
main one day longer in each city than
they did a year ago.