Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-05-17
CHAUTAUQUA HAS
A FINE PROGRAM
First Outline OF Entertain
ments Here
Tent viii Be Pitched On Fair Grounds
For Five Days, July 1920

that such an unusually strong and APP
propriate program has been arranged
that the week during which the Chau-
tauqua will be held here will be veri-
table Patriotic Week. The Chautau-
qua will be held during the five days
beginning July 10, 1918, and the program
is so arranged that each day will be de-
voted 10 emphasis upon particular
phase OF national or community en-
deavor, There will be Liberty Day,
and a National Service Day., and a
Community Day., and so on, On
each OF these Days" a different group
OF artists and lecturers will appear, and
each group will be assigned the task Of
making their particular "Day" day Of
distinctive patriotic service,
On Liberty Day, the emphasis will
be placed upon the actual things that
are transporting across the waters,- those
things which affect the lie and safety
Of our boys "over there" On Nation.
al Service Day, the theme will be what
the home folks must do to help the boys
in the trenches, Community Day
will be a day OF community good fell
lowship, when folks take new grip on
life because they have learned TO know
each other better 1t will also be a
great day for the children, One Of its
features will be a Junior Patriotic Par
ade and a grand Pageant OF our Allies"
by the members OF the Junior Chautau'
qua,
1t is said that the management has
kaau gavaf,1 Ia arranUa that oil nf the
musical numbers will reflect the spirit
OF the times by making the keynote OF
their work OF patriotic nature, One
of the very special numbers OF the
Chautauqua next summer will be the
Arcadian Symphony Orchestra OF Col
umbus, Ohio. This is said to be the best
orchestra doing exclusively Chautauqua
work in America 1t will be under the
personal direction of Donald c. Abbott
composer and flute virtuoso Among
the members Of the orchestra will be
Mr.. Frank Todhunter who was former
~ with Sousa's Band; Miss Mabel Abb
bolt, pianist and vocalist, who has stud
led in conServatories abroad; Mr.,
Thomas Wall, a Grand Opera singer,
who sang 300 nights in THE Bohemian
Grip; and many others of equal note
This is the first time that Symphony
Orchestra has appeared on an eastern
Chautauqua platform, and rare treat
is in store for those who will be privi-
legged to hear it,
Another notable feature will be The
Theresa Sheehan Concert Company, in
Guiding Miss Theresa Sheehan, known
as the inimitable Irish entertainer; Miss
Pauline Kegg Soprano soloist; and
Miss Vivian Des Jardins, Niolinist Miss
Sheehan and her company has long
enjoyed a most enviable reputation in
the Chautauqua world, They will give
high grade program, and something
which will be enjoyed by everybody.
The Liberty Maids, a quartet OF
charming young ladies, will give a
unique program OF vocal and instru-
mental music. Their speciality will be
he patriotic preludes on Liberty Day..
The Cathedral Choir promises to be
one of the best musical numbers upon
the program. This will be a seXtette
of the best musicians available in New
York City,-two men and four women.
The Choir is being especially prepared
for the Community Chautauquas this
coming summer, 1t will give the patri-
otto prelude on National Service Day"
and also will give full program OF dis
tinctive choral music.
The company which will perhaps
prove of as great interest as any is The
Indian String Quartet, with Richard
Kennedy as lecturer and story teller.
The Quartet is composd entirely OF
young American Indians who have been
educated in government schools and for
several years have been special students
in music at the Indian Training School
of Chemowa, Ore. Each member Of the
Quartet represents different tribe;
Fred Cardin, first violin, comes from
the Ouapaw tribe of Oklahoma; Alex
Melovidov, second violin, from Pribilof
Islands in the Bering Sea, and is men,
Der of the Aleut tribe; VILLAIN Palm,
viola from the Flathead tribe of Mon
tana; and Willie Reddie, Cello, is a
member of the Hydah tribe of Wrangell,
Alaska They are most rare combina-
ton of talent and give such expression
to their music that they never TAIL to
enthuse and delight their audiences.
If their spirit in producing a concert is
anything like their spirit in enlisting in
the present war, 100 per cent program
may be expected from the Indians.
reports show that an I'M
usually large number of Indians, in
keeping with their tribal fighting tradi-
tons, have enlisted in the American
forces since the declaration of war.
Over So percent OF the Indian drafted
men have been found to be non-citizens
but have been too proud to claim ex-
emption on this ground.
The committee announces that for
lecturers and entertainers the greatest
group will be presented that has ever
been assembled for patriotic purposes.
There will be Denton c. Crowl, that !
most unique of platform men, who will
present one of the famous Sam Jones |
Lectures" especially modernized in the
light of present-d day conditions. Sam
Jones had a message that gripped the
hearts of folks and made them glad
they were alive, and Mr., Crowl has the
peculiar faculty of giving the message |
life and virility. He travelled last sum-
mer over one of the western Commun-
ity Chautauqua Circuits and every
where received the highest praise.
Then there will be Mohammed Ali, a
native of India and member Of the |
-oyal family who will bring a delight |