Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-02
CHAUTAUQUA
PROGRAM GOOD
Week of Varied Amusement, Enter
teinment and Education Coming
This Month When the Redpath
HOrner Folks Put On Their An
nual Show.

You are already beginning to plan
for the summer. probably wondering
what the Chautauqua will be like this
year.
If you like music, Pol Plancon. the
baritone, supplies that like If you
like a company of finely trained vo-
calists. some instrumental music with
the novelty appeal, FiechtIs Alpine
Yodlers from the Tyrol. the Austrian
side of the Alps, the first company of
its kind over in this country, have ap-
peared before practically every pres
ident, as well as every kind of audi
ence imaginable, in the twenty-eight
years since the company first appear
ed here.
These people have cultured voices
of high artistic merit and will give
you great program of folk songs,
the best of native music, using the
love call of the mountains. the yodle.
You will never forget their Echo
Song"
The Hawaiians, Ellis in command,
better company than last year, an
all-star company, gives you any
brand of music from grand opera to
ragtime, but they will plan mostly
for Hawaiian music.
Columbia Singing Orchestra - six
young ladies, singing, ylaying, anus
ing. diverting, will delight you as
much by their clean, wholecome
ideals, as brought out in their pro-
gram, as by their musicianship.
The McCords will furnish one days
preludes. Sometimes Ms. McCord
uses makeup, sometimes he appears
without it, sometimes Mrs. McCord
plays the violin or piano, but all the
time attention is centered upon the
platform.
Wells Watson CHM appeared for
full program upon the same Chau-
tauqua last summer which featured
Alise Nielsen. He delighted his au-
diences.
Miss Guila Adams Reade is a most
clever, versatile, out-of-the-ordinary
entertainer and will "fill the bill' to
your entire satisfaction.
Then there is the big entertain
ment of the Proctor-W Watkins Sketch
Artists, featuring Miss 10 Proctor
and Mr.. v. S. Watkins of st. Louis,
something new in Chautauqua pro-
gram. Every member of this COM
pany is experienced in pleasing peo-
pie, each one could fill a full evening
Do you want big speaker, a noted
orator? Mrs. La Sale Corbell Pick
EFT, wifi of General Pickett of Gettys-
burg fame. The "child bride of the
Confederacy" has an intimate, per.
sonal knowledge of the great men oi
that day and tells thrilling story oi
civil war times.
If you are thinker, Orrin Cliff
ford Lester will interest you with hi
Limitations of Liberty" an analyti
cal, constructive discussion of Ques
tions of vital interest right at thei
time.
If oratOry appeals, DR.. F. e. Cor
don, of true Southern type, in an in
spirationtl, ideal making speoker. H,
has proved his ability in Chautauqui
work over and over again.
If you are a reader, traveller,
student, or even mildly interested il
your neighbors, Chas. A.Payne will
hold your attention. Payne ! is
world traveller. always at it, Away
bringing back photographs, snapshot
and pictures of places and peopI,
seen and studied in his wanderings.
So her is the 1916 program,
many-sided program, one to appea
to you from every angle: Chas. A
Payne, Mrs. La Sale Corbell Pickett
Wells Watson CHM, Mrs. Fiechtl'
Tyrolean Alpine Yodlers, Pol Plan
con, the Proctor Watkins Sketch Art
lists.