Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-05
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
SPLENDID PROGRAM
Best Program Yet Presented Follows Most Successful Season Ticket
Sale Dr. Geisss Lecture Worth Prize oSeasOn Ticket Opinion
of Most Who Heard Her Speak Conrad Company's Por.
gram Pleases. Porf Guy F. Bingham Delivers Splendid
Lecture on American Patriotism
DR.. PAUL M. PEARSON, CHAUTAU-
QUA PRESIDENT COMES HERE

The community's fourth Chau-
tauqua opened here on Wednes-
day afternoon, following the
most successful advance sale of
season tickets yet realized by
the local Guarantors. Had there
been an organized ticket selling
campaign it is practically certain
that this year the GuarantOrs
would have gone "over the top"
with their season ticket sale, as
more than twelve hundred
dollars worth of tickets practical
ly sold themselves. AS it is the
guarantors, fifty five in number,
face an even smaller individual
deficit than was experienced last
year with more than d hundred
names on the guarantors con-
tract.
Chautauqua this year seems to
have achieved the impossible by
presenting a program superior
to the excellent one given last
year at the same prices as pre-
vailed last year, in the face of
rising costs on every hand.
Certainly a better program has
never been shown here than that
now being given at the Chautau-
qua. tent.
DR.. Carolyn f. Geisels lecture
on Wednesday night, given to
the largest first night crowd yet
had, metwith universal approba-
tioG. DIR. Geisel was applauded
tinfesnd again and recalled to
take curtain bows several times
after the close of her talk on
Miss Columbia, M. D". 1t
will be recalled that DR.. Geisel
was q feature of last years pro-
gram and was returned at the
almost unanimous request of
every town on the circuit.
The entertaining program Of
the Conrad Company on Thursday
evening was both unusual and
enjoyable. Clayton Conrad the
talking cartoonist" was ex-
ceptionally good, as was also the
musical program of Andrew
Visocchi, the wizard of the ac-
Gordon and the singing of Miss
Mildred Sanders, who has a re-
markably pure soprano voice.
The lecture on patriotism"
given on Thursday evening by
Prof. Guy +. Bingham, of Lisbon,
Ohio, who has been acting as
Superintendent of the Chautau-
qua platform this week, was one
of the most constructive lectures
ever delivered here. Prof. Bing-
ham is a deep thinker and
student, keenly alive to the great |
changes taken place in American !
thought and habit resulting from
our reaction to the great World I
War, and his address, delivered
on July Fourth, was a most ap-
and persuasive plea for
deeper and more vital patriotic
thought and action. His appeal
was primarily to the thinking
part of his audience and was
thoroughly enjoyed and appre-
ciated by them.
DR.. Paul M. Pearson, president
of the Swarthmore Chautauqua
and also Swarthmore College,
will arrive here to-day and will
act as Platform Superintendent
of the Chautauqua for the re-
mainder OF the week. DR.. Pear
son is a gifted speaker and the
community is to he congratulate
ed upon being able to have him
with us during the week. DR..
Pearson comes here to replace
Prof. Bingham, who leaves to-day
to take charge of the Petersburg,
Va, Chautauqua which starts
tomorrow.
The program this afternoon is