Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-08-07
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ANOTHER PROGRAM ASSURED HxFoRz
TIE CLOSE OF THE SESSION.
Our Community Chautanqua for 1917
closed very successful series OF enter.
tainmeuts Wednesday evening, and action
was taken which ensures another visit
here during 1918. Tuesday evening
pledges we're taken for purchase Of sea
son tickets for next year, Of which It 10
necessary to guarantee 500. That even-
Ing 421 were pledged, and during the
next day and evening The number was
Increased to 626. A contract for next
year has been signed. with well towards
. hundred names OF members OF tho
local association.
The attendance throughout has been
better than last year, especially for the
last two days Of the Chautauqus. Tues.
day evening at the band concert every
scat was filled and numbers stood around
the rear OF the tent, while others sat In
the automobiles parked near BY. It 10
estimated that there were about 800
people present. Wednesday svening the
tent was we'll filled, and but for showers
which were here and oil about us, the
audience would have been much larger.
In spite Of all possible ventilation, It
was pretty hot under the tent ct some Of
the afternoon sessions, but the evenings
have been very comfortable.
It was not found convenient 10 have .
meeting of the local association at the
close, 90 the meeting will be held on
Wednesday evening OF this week ut the
store of Eastman & Andrews, when
organization for the coming year will be
effected.
Mondays musical program WAS given
by the Tschaikowsky Quartet, directed
by Leon Weltman, famous Russian
violinist, who has had the honor of play
ing before the (once was) Gear of All the
Russias. This quartet 10 composed Of
two vIolins. cello and piano. They
affect no versatility, playing each only
his own one instrument, and they give .
high grade Of music-so classical a. to
20 over the heads OF some not cultured
in musical lines. Butthey are certainly
all artists, and some OF their selections
were of the more popular music. Some
violin solos by the director, his OVID
compositions, were received with especial
favor.
In the afternoon Josephine Chiffon
gave southern readings. with varying
reception, some not being particularly
pleased, while others enjoyed her work
immensely.
DR.. E. L. Williams, who gave the
lecture Monday evening, WAS advertised
as Chicago's fighting parson. There is
no doubt, after hearing him talk few
mipu' es, that he deserves the title. DR..
Williams is the pastor of Grace Meth
odist church In Chicago. After going to
that place he started to clean things up
. little In the line of vice and political
graft. He didn't fight with sermons and
resolutions, but he took off bis coat, and
II necessary put on . tramp's coat In
place of It, and went after the vice where
It exists. His lecture Was . rapid
description of some OF his work, such az
he could give In an hour and . quarter.
In addition to the interest Of bis subject,
DR.. Williams 10 man Of tremendous
vitality, of much human sympathy,
intellectually keen as brier and with =
ready wit, and his lecture was one OF tho
most directly entertaining things on the
whole program.
Tuesday was band day, and the enter
tsiners were the Royal Blue Hussars
Band. II you don't know land It wasn't
stated In the advertisipg) they are italian,
as was quickly apparent. To be per-
fectly frank, this band did not get quite
the same enthusiastic reception that was
given the band which was here last year,
but it gave . delightful and enjoyable
program. Besides the regular band
selections, the program was varied With
xvlophone and ocarina selections.
In place of the American singer who
was billed to appear with tho band,
Signor Monetti lat least that Is the way
It sounded was the soloist both after
noon and evening, and apparently We
lost nothing by the substitution. Signor
Monetti sang entirely operatic selections,
and naturally In Italian, and while some
would have preferred to understand
what he was singing about, all were
delighted with bis singing even IN .
foreign tongue, and he was recalled
again and again.
A treat such 10 rarely affosded q
country audience was the lecture Of
John Kendrick Bangs, "Salubrities, "
which comprised the program OF Wed
nesday afternoon. From strictly
literary point of view, 1t is seldom We
hear DO much expressive English, pure
and undefiled, In the course OF eighty
minutes. And then 1t sparkles with
that wit which John Kendriak Bangs
makes part OF oil bis writings. And
more than oil, there 10 manifest al tho
time the man John Kendrick Bangs,
with that rare human sympathy and
feeling to the gloriioation of which In
other people bis lecture 10 largely de-
voted. When he IL through you are
are convinced of one of two things:
Either, II you had any business to tran
ssct with him, he would treat You like q
gentleman, or he is the biggest fraud on
earth. The only fault found with him
by the audience was that he didn't keep
on an hour or two longer.
AT tu0 IB0t oOooiOu W 0eoSJ 49,
Ing the entertainment was given BY j.
q. Balmer and bis Kafir singing boys.
Their program is Q demonstration In
story and song of life In Africa. While
| It gets varying criticism, to most OF the
large audience 1t was not only Instructive
but delightful, and . fitting close to tho
five days of entertainment and edidca'
ton.
Through the efforts Of Miss Fisher,
who was in charge of the Junior Chau.
tauoua work, . movement was started
to establish Fairgrounds here. It 10
proposed to have two grounds. ut South
Paris and Norway, the ono at South
Paris to be In charge OF Miss Florence
Leach and the Norway one In charge Of
Miss Mildred Holmes, both to be under
the general supervision of the local
Junior Chautauqua superintendent
About $25. 90 will be required In each
place for expenses. A portion OF this
INN was raised during the Chautauqua,
and Albert D. Park and Eugene n.
SWEET are . committee to raise the
Miss Fisher has been appointed physi'