Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-15
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Descriptive-"A Hunting Scene"
s.-------- --------------- Bucaloss
Violin Solo-"Polonaise Brilliante"-
Observation-Disclosures WienlaWSk
\ Ballet Music-"Dance of the Houri,"
from ia Gioconda" ---Ponchiell
Cello Solo-"Chanson Nepolitaine'
s-------- ------------------ CaSella
Fantasia-"Allies in Camp"
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Bostonia programs are arranged
cleverly so as to appeal to all classes
of lovers of music. In the main the
programs are classical but the encores
are sufficiently popular to make a
somewhat broader appeal-which is
an ideal arrangement for an all-inclu-
sive Chautauqua audience. The solo
work yesterday won everybody, with
Miss Dorothy Dooling as a general
favOrite. Her solo work on the cornet
received an ovation which was we'll
deserved. Ora Larthard had a triumph
AT night with her cello solo in which
string and wood seemed almost per-
fectly to simulate the human voice,
and Adeline Packard's "Polonaise
fBrilliante" showed off the violin to
fine effect. The Bostonias will receive
"a first rate Webster City welcome
should kindly fate bring them this
way again.
The scene last night at Chautauqua
grounds was very notable. Early the
crowds began to assemble, and there
was Sunday evening air about the
grounds that was delightful. Auto
mobiles lined the sides of adjacent
streets. The crowd filed silently into
the big tent till the tent Overtlowed
and multitudes sat in chairs or stood
around the open spaces beyond the
canvas. When the program was over
the crowd presented a picturesque and
happy appearance as it sauntered off
the grounds, and hundreds of automo-
biles looked like twentieth century
fire-flies as they glided about the
streets homeward bound.
From Saturdays Daily:
Chautauqua is here again. By ,
o'clock yesterday chautauqua crowds
began to gather, and on the streets
one could note human tide moving
toward the khaki tent on the school
Hgrounds. People strolled toward the
tent as naturally as though they had
been coming all the year. The only
thing new and strange this year was
the war tax to be paid on each ticket
at the box Office at the gate. The
business of viseing tickets against
the kaiser blocked the approaches to
the grounds yesterday and caused the
afternoon program to be a few min
utes late in starting But everybody
was in happy Chautauqua mood and
seemed glad to contribute few cents
ito Uncle Sans big war chest
Superintendent T. B. Mouer said
yesterday that this years program
was intended to popularize informa-
ton about and to give inspiration for
the war. To this end this years
Chautauquas have the hearty indorse-
ment of the administration, for the
people who can laugh while they are
patriotic in times like these will win
the war.
The war program yesterday was
opened by Rev. R. T. Chipperfield OF
the local Methodist church, who in
troduced the new platform manager
in the person of double-superintend-
ent Mouer, superintendent of the pub
lie schools at Granite Falls, Mimi,
and of the current Webster City
Chautauqua. 1t fell to the lot of Jess
Pugh and Miss Mary Louise Poe to
set a-going the preludes which in
these days mark Chautauqua pro-
grams-the man an all-round elocu-
zionist and the lady pianist and
singer.
Program is Opened.
The Pugh preludes yesterday after
moon and evening opened the pro-
gram auspiciously. The afternoon en-
ytertainment was patriotic, in keeping
with Private Lovells lecture to fol-
low. Mr. Pugh sings and talks and
recites with equal felicity, and the
work of the twain yesterday greatly
pleased the audience Mr.. Pugh's rem
dition of Robert Services famous,
''The Whistling of Dandy McGraw,"
will not soon be forgotten in Webster
City. The evening prelude flung it
self with more abandon into the hum
orous. Mr.. Pugh's character schetch-