Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-11-05


liberal patronage maintained the lead
ing lyceum course in New England
This year the city can safely challenge
any place of many times its size in
the United States to produce one equal
to the series offered.
Saturdays announcements of the At
fractions engaged for this seasons Au-
Susta Entertainment Course not only
set the public talking, but started a
record breaking first days season
ticket Sale-one which indicates that
this years allotment of tickets will be
taken long before the advertised clos
ing day of the sale. The management s
adNlce TO avoid regrets by buying early
is being taken. Last year many who
waited too long were unable to secure
season tickets
How can YOU afford for 81 90 to
offer seven such high Grade attrac-
tions?" asked the Journals represen
tatlNe of one of the managers. That s
Vhat everybody is asking" was the
reply. 1t is made possible only by
our cooperative subscription season
ticket plan and by filing big City Hall
to its capacity at every entertainment
Frarkly. we may have this season Of
fereG more value than we ought, bu.
If true, it will be the public's gain and
our less. AS is now we'll known, oui
special aim and purpose is to provide
the people of Augusta with the best and
cleaneSt entertainments at the smallest
possible price
IS mot
stronger than that of any former
year asked the reporter 'Unques-
tionably," replied the committee man
for every attraction we have engaged
IS the very highest of its class-the
rest that money can obtain"
Take for example. William Jennings
Bryan or Alice Nielsen, the famous
prima donna who both command q
hlShfr price than is paid for the com
bined attractions Of any lyceum else
where in Maine this season"
BRYAN is not only the biggest ~
ccum attraction in America TODAY, b,it
The highest paid lecturer before tho
pubic So great is he in demand that
we had to wait nearly two years after
the signing Of the contract before 3
date could be secured"
Ihcre IS no other lyCeum coursr
cast OF Boston with patronage suffi.
cient TO pay Alice Niclscn's price which
IS larger than ever before given tc
any singer heard in Central Maine
All last week Miss Nielsen sang tc
record breaking audiences at the Ma.
Jestic in Boston, and the press WAS
unanimous in pronouncing her appear.
event Boston will have this season
But the local management believes
that there is nothing too good or too
Zig for Augusta"
Ihroe OF the other attractions are
especially unique from the fact that
1t is believed to be the first time OF
record in American lyceum where two
or more of the highest grade enter
tainers, accustomed to giving a full
evenings entertainment alone. have
been combined in making a one night !.
Program
strickland Gillian, America $ best
known humorist, and Alton Packard
the world famous cartoonist, have
never before appeared together. OF. as
far as is known, with any other en-
tcrtainer, each being capable alone OF
ucnshtinS for an entire evening thi
largest and most critical audiences in
America"
The same is true of Katherine
Ridgeway. one of the worlds grcatrs;
entertainers, who cannot begin to iii
"ne-half of her applications for dates.
We have. however engaged for the
same evening to assist her, four OF
the leading artists of the Boston Sym
l'hony Orchestra. including the wonder
full Earpist whose playing created such
Il sensation in Augusta last season
This ought to make one of the most
rema kable entertainments ever know
in lyCeum'
For real novelty, however, there
has never been offered on any New
England course, at least, anything
similar or equal to our this years in
novaticn Popular Night TO find
something out of the ordinary and
absolutely different than has ever been
presented here, the local management
has contracted with five high grade
lyCcum entertainers who will give the
cream Of their usual full evening $
entertainment in one evening. If il
proves as popular as the mana cement
predicts this plan Will be made a
ornament feature of Che course"
In the selection of the famous cdi-
tor and author, Joe Mitchell Chapple,
the direc tors have recently heard him
give his Patriotic Flashlights know
that the hishwater mark i'll the lee
ture ficlG has been reached. There is
nc one in his class. and the public has
a great treat in store"
ITO make well balanced course,
some dramatic production seemed nee
essary. and the mana cement was es-
pccially fortunate in securing the IA
nous Ben Greet Players, now on their
seventh annual ns-continental tour.
Fourteen players of renown, and ac-
Lnowledeed to be Americas leading
dramatic company.
You ask" said the committee man,
"why we include on our course such
attractions as Bryan and Nielsen. with
which city hall could undoubtedly be
filled to capacity at high prices, when
we already have much stronger than
the average course elsewhere without
them? Our answer is that we want
our patronS. who by standing by us
have made it possible for the Augusta
course from small beginning to grow
to its present size and quality. TO share
with US in the profits and pleasures
The Journal not only congratulates
the public on having the opportunity
Of enjoying these high grade entertain