Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-06-21

up larger every Gay. III promises TO De
big feature of the summer in Ellsworth.
The event will begin Sunday, July 16,
and will close Ave days later. 1t will
bring great list OF musical artists, lee
turers and entertainers to town, and IL the
man who holds a season ticket can't get
bis moneys worth out OF the Chautauqua,
he is looking for something besides the
best.
The plan Is to make the Chautauqua so
low in cost as to include everybody. In
TACT, on the season. ticket plan, these
splendid programs can be heard for a few
cents number. The season tickets admit
to all sessions, and there are no extras OF
any sort.
Two programs will be given on each OF
the five days. The outstanding feature OF
the five days will be music, OF W hich there
will be q great abundance. An entirely
different and distinct set OF artists and
lecturers will come for each OF the five
days. These Chautauqua talent folks will
move direct from this place to some other
Chautauqua, where they will hold forth
on the following day. They travel in
complete circuit, and appear in as many
as seventy towns and cities in seventy
days time, making town day.
A large waterproof tent will be pitched
in the early morning OF the day Of the
Chautauqua, or the evening previous, and
all the sessions will be held in the cool,
shady out oi-doors. Many patrons will
find it pleasant to combine the Chautau-
qua with a picnic or outing on one or
more OF the days Of the week, providing a
picnic luncheon to be eaten in some shady
spot in the two or three hour interval be-
tween the afternoon and evening pro-
grams.
A most cordial and hearty invitation is
extended by the committee in charge to
the folks who live in the country and in
the neigh boring towns. Their hope is to
make the Chautauqua a community affair
pure and simple. They are emphasizing
the fact that it is not just for this town
alone. but is Tor all the people OF the sur
rounding country.
There has been some talk OF an auto
mobile excursion into the country and
neigh boring towns, inviting every body
into the Chautauqua. 1t is said that more
than two-thirds Of the Chautauquas on
the Community list last year took trips OF
this kind last season, and are planning
more extensively for sociability runs this
year.
The program is all that could be desired.
The management has spared no expense
in making it grand week from musical,
an artistic and an inspirational stand
point.
The coming OF Frederick Warde is in
itself an event Of extraordinary interest,
ESPECIALLY in this Shakesperean tercen-
tenary year. Mr.. warde will appear on
the third day in a lecture-recital on
shakespeare and His Plays.
Other notable features are victor's
Florentine band and Neapolitan Trooba-
dours on the fourth day. The band is
headed by Signor de Carlo, one OF the
greatest OF the younger Italian bandmas-
tiers in this country, and has achieved big
successes in many large engagements.
Other numbers Of special interest are
Lee Francis Ly barger, OF the Philadelphia
bar, who will make the keynote speech
OF the Chautauqus, appearing on he OPEN
ing evening. His subject is 1.-THE Com
munity Conscience"
Besides these are Ole Theobsldi, the ia
nous Norwegian violinist, and his two
assisting artists, Mime. Alice Florence
Stitzel, operstic soprano, and Nine. Helen
Kelere, pianist; Andre vidon, Mexican
war correspondent and writer and
scholar OF note, who will lecture on San
Inside View OF Mexico; the American
quartet and Clayton Conrad, cartoonist;
O'Hara and Wetmore, entertainers; the
Dunbar Southern Singers; DIR. Euclid B.
Rogers, a noted lecturer from the middle
West, and special features to be added.
Among these latter is the Junior Chsu-
tauqua for the boys and girls, which will
70 under the direction Of an expert play
d.. ector.
Th,. Chautauqua will afford grand va
cation s..or you right here amid the COM
forts OF your home. Plan to get season
tickets for the entire family and give
them and yo1rself a chance to enjoy every
one Of the ten, great sessions. 1t is up to
the people of Ellsworth and vicinity to
make this Chsuta qua big success and an
annual feature OF ne summer which will
bring many people rere.