The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-05-03
CHAUTAUQUA BRINGS P|NAFORE;
BRYAN, LITTLE WOMEN" AND
OTHER GREAT ATTRACTIONS

For season ticket purchasers, the
Chautauqua which comes to Tucum-
carl on May 81, %, %, "a, %, 26. and
u offers what might well be termed a
bargain in high class entertainment,
famous lecturers and popular and cias-
steal music. The admission price to
u movie" ticket to those who take ad-
vantage of the season-ticket.
Seven days programs are given, one
program in the afternoon and one in
the evening. Each morning the chill
dren have their games and supervised
play and prepare for the Children's
Circus which is given on the evening
of the last day. Approximately one
hundred people are engaged in giving
the programs, there being eighteen
different lecturers, companies and
groups of entertainers.
William Jennings Bryan is Of course
the most noted lecturer on the pro-
gram. Many people consider his lee
ture alone worth the price Of the sea-
son ticket. Regardless of whether or
not people agree with his policies he
is always heard by record-breaking
crowds. He could be secured to speak
in only few cities and this city is
fortunate enough to be one Of them.
Other lecturers include Governor
Malcolm X. Patterson of Tennessee,
an orator who upholds all the best
traditions of the South, and who comes
with message and plea for better
lives and higher ideals.
Brooks Fletcher gives you epigrams
which burn into your memory. HIS
pictures are more vivid than any car
toonist can d. w with crayon. His
utterance is full of flash and fire.
With voice sympathetic and power
full, he speaks with the compelling
mastery Of leader.
Lou Beauchamp brings to Chautau-
qua a lecture replete with new, witty,
stories. Along with his humor how
ever are lessons given in an unusual
but nevertheless effective, manner. He
is known as "The Humorous Philos-
opher" and has delivered his lecture
"Take The Sunny Side" over 5000
times. William Rainey Bennett is one
of the most impressive and striking
lecturers on the platform. or pleas
ing personality and with vigorous
vocabulary he holds his hearers from
his first minute and gives them thots
that mean better citizens and greater
cities.
For six months Charles F. Horner
was sending cablegrams and letters
to the last-known address of Alexan-
der Irvine, in an effort to secure this
great evangelist and orator, mission
worker and reformed pugilist and ad-
venturer, to deliver his thrilling lec-
ture on the Chautauqua platform. Just
as he had despaired of ever finding
him and as the Chautauqua pro-
grams were going to press without his
name, a cablegram was received say
ing he had arrived in London from the
trenches and had received the contract
and signed it and was leaving for
America. His talk will be both time
ly and thrilling and should be heard
by every person, young and old.
Edward Amherst OFT is true ora
tor, speaking with authority on ques-
tions of Importance, including lectures
on "Sour Grapes" "A Fortune for
You" ""The Spenders," and "The Haun-
ted House." His lecture is model Of
perfect diction and construction, up
holding the dignity of the platform
and furnishing inspiration, instruction
and encouragement to its hearers.
Each lecture is the result Of years of
study and careful thought.
The first days program includes
the concert by The Althea Players.
This will be one of the real sensations
Of the Chautauqua. Six more talent
ed, charming, versatile and musical
girls never appeared in one company.
They all play the violin and you will
be delighted and surprised to hear
what sweet music can be furnished by
this violin sextette. The program is
one continuous round of pleasure and
surprises, with six charming girls vie
ing with one another to give the most
artistic and delightful program ever
given from the Chautauqua platform.
The Metropolitan Men Singers com
prise the finest male quartet on the
Chautauqua platform today. The men
are large in stature and strong in mus
ical ability. There is lots of fun, hap
piness and humor in their program.
Ada Roach is "The Sunshine Girl" and
brings one of the most delightful and
humorous programs of the week. She
Is simply wonderful in her dialect read
ings, her impersonations and her beau
tiful songs.
The Hawaiians, with w. s. Ellis,
give one Of the popular numbers Of
the program, which will be both in
teresting and instructive, as Mr., Ellis
tells stories of the Hawaiians. They
have unique instruments, fine voices
and a program that is distinctively
different.
Harrison Keller, the violinist, and
Stewart Willie, the pianist, furnish one