The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-03
CAAUTAUQUA 1918 PROGRAM.
REDPATH MANAGEMENT AN.
NOUNCES GREATEST ARRAY
OF TALENT EVER.
30 in chocolate SOldier'-Sir John
Foster Fraser, One of Headline Lee
turers; Margery Maxwell of Chicago
Grand Opera Co.; Dunbars Revue
Featuring Parade of the Allies.


than the great program of 1917,
which was acknowledged the best in
seven years, this seasons Redpath
Chatauqua, according to the Red
path management, is 10 eclipse them
ALL
Everyone will be interested in the
announcement that Sir John Foster
Fraser, F. r. G.. S., chairman of the
National War Lectures Committee
of Great Britain, and England's most
famous newspaper special correspond
ent, is to appear upon this program
in France and Flanders, with the
British Grand Fleet, has seen Russia,
under war conditions and has trav-
ersed the whole of the mountainous
region of the Balkans. He has been
a great traveller and has decribed his
wanderings in a dozen books. He has
also long been famous in Great Britain
as a speaker. AT the beginning of the
war, he placed his unique knowledge
of foreign lands at the service of his
country. AS a recognition of his Tc-k
the honor of Knighthod was con-
ferred on him at Buckingham Palace
in June, 1917.
The success of "The Mikado" las,
ancnn vuoC CO ,,,onnnnoad fI,of tl,iS
year another popular light opera will
be- presented. The Chocolate Sol.
der is the 1918 Offering and light
opera night this year will again be &
real sensation. Charmingly tunefu
The Chocolate Soldier" has a won.
derful record before metropolitan
audiences. company of thirty, in.
Guiding orchestra, will present "Th,
Chocolate Soldier" The stage set
ting and lighting effects will be {
revelation in what can be accom-
plshed in this direction on the Chau
tauqua platform.
Dunbar's Revue in music and spe
cial costume will feature a granc
spectacular Parade of the Allies
The music and costumes are eXtraor
dinary. This revue will be given oil
the last night of the Chautauqua, a
the elimination of great weeks pro
gram. In addition to the principal
in the cast, local young people will ap
pear in the final pageant spectacle.
An evening with grand oper;
artist has twice before proven a grea
attraction on the Redpath Chautau
qua circuit and now after a seasol
without n prima-donna, this year
program is to have grand oper;
star in Miss Margery Maxwell, tn
gifted young soprano, who appeare'
this season as principal with CALI
Curci, in the Chicago Grand Oper
Company in Chicago, and who &C
companied that organization on il
tour to New York and Boston.
Frank Mulhofland. past presiden
of the International Rotary Clubs O
the World, and a magnetic, rapid-fir,
eloquent speaker before busines
mems organizations everywhere, is
lecture on Business and the War;"
topic on which he is eminently quail
fled TO speak. having added to his eN
tensivc knowledge Of American bus
ness conditions by a recent visit t
England and France.
Economy in the Home" will l.
the subject of a lecture by Mrs. Chri:
tine Frederick, we'll known as a speal
er on home economies, and as cor
tributor on this topic to metropolita
newspapers, and the Ladies' Hon
Journal Mrs. Frederick points I'll
way TO patriotic service through e