Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-21
CAAUIAUQUA COMES
To AN END TO-DAY
Junior Pageant This Morning,
Business Lecture This After
noon and Scientific Exhibition
Tonight-Two Fine Attrac-
tiOns Yesterday

2OitISH I'LL WI lItS AttIdN-
tiOns Yesterday
Did You see II? II was immense. The
closing line of ROi Cooper Megrues side
splitting comedy, at Pays to ADVERTISE
left the Chautauqua audience last eve
ming roaring with laughter, "a condition
which prevailed during the greater part
of the time that the play was in progress.
And 1t was an audience which equalled In
size and enthusiasm any which has visited
the Chautauaua tent this week. If there
was anyone in the audience who did not
enjoy the play, it was because their sense
of humor was In need of repair.
This is the last day of the Chautauqua
in Burlington. This morning at ten o'clock
instead of nine o'clock. as advertised on
some of the programs the Junior. Chau-
tauqua will present the victory pageant,
for which the children have been drilling
during the last week under tho direction
of Miss Mary Carpenter. About 50 chill
dren Will take part in this pageant. in spe-
cal costumes and appropriate decora-
tons II is hoped that there will be n
large audience to see what the children
have been doing,
Attractions for the afternoon and eve
ming are H. l.. Fogleman, lecturing in
the afternoon ON the subject The Win
ming man" especially for business men
and their employees: and Montraville Wood
scientist and inventor. who givef a scien-
tifc exhibition Of some of the latest eX-
pc, mcnts and inventions. closing the
Chautauqua program for this season.
Although there Is much interest in hav-
ing the Chautauqua come back next year
the list off guarantors is not growing so
rapidly as might be hoped for About 30
names have been placed on the list up
to the present time The commit
tee in charge is quite confident,
however. that the full list of 80 guaran-
tors will be secured to-day. and Bur-
lington is practically certain to be one
of the &C communities on the Redpath
Red England circuit next year.
at Pays to Advertise" the play given
last evening, is not a new play, as
everybody knows, buf it was put on
with such freshness that 1t struck the
audience as being the ''livest" thing seen
, in Burlington in a long time 1t is hard
to imagine any three-act stage produc-
tion which could include in two hours
and half more humorous situations
than this comedy. And through it all
there is not "A stuffed line. nor anything
shady. 1t is sharp. clean-cut snappy in
every line and pushing the action for
ward every moment at a 2;i0 clip.
There was no amateur work about the
staging of the production. The same
professionals who played the parts in
this piece for several seasons in large
cities throughout the country were on
/ the boards with the original pep last
night, headed by William ]. Keighley
as Ambrose Pcalc.' the man who put
tho lad" in advertising. Harold Yer
milye was Just as convincing in the
equally clever part of Rodney Martin"
whose determination to succeed in bust
ness finally brought his obdurate father
to terms. Jean Brae as MARY Gray
SON." was charging as we'll as business
like. while Frank Peters as Cyrus Mar
tin" the soap-king. put over some of the
finest acting seen in Burlington in many
years.
Desireo Stempel put the proper amount
of feeling into her roll of female crook,
and every character in the production
would pass the national board Of censor
ship as fit for the inspection of the
. king" "Ellery Clark" az played by
Reginald Good, was "A scream, the orig
/ nal dude having nothing ON his per-
Torrance. Throughout, it was an A-No.
l production
PRUSSIA AND THE BOLSHEVIKI"
| Ralph Il. Dennis a professor at North
western University, Evanston. Ill, who
saw service in Russia as United states
! consul at Moscow during the revolution,
gave the most instructive lecture yet
heard on the weeks program of the
Redpath Chautauqua yesterday afternoon
on the subject Russia and the Boil
| sheviki." The Russian revolution, its
! aims, causes methods, and meaning to
the world together with the threat of
! Bols hevism in the United states, were
taken up in "A most interesting manner
/ and discussed in "A way which convinced
the audience that the speaker knew what
| he was talking about.
Mr.. Dennis first went to Russia as a
! Y. NJ. c. A. worker but transferred to
| the government service after about four
months in the "Y" work He arrived in
| Nladivostock November /, 1917, and from
| there he travelled about the country,
spending some time in Moscow and being
! in that city when it was captured by
the Red Guard.
loNt tne RUSSIAN people, beCdust
| they are the friendliest, warmest- ed
people in the world said Mr.. Dennis.
He went on to say that he believed in
| the potentialities of the Russian race.
giving them two generations Of educa-
ton, and that they have something vital
to contribute to civilization, but that
il is not Bolshevism.
Russia, with its 1so,O0O,0o0 people, with
territory the size of the United states,
Mexico and Canada together, with the
richest country in the world, with its
mystical religion: in which he car is
the head of the church; where 81 per cent.
Of the people are peasants and only about
| nvc per cent. are industrial workers,
while the other 10 per cent are the
upper classes and rule the others, where
only the upper classes are allowed educa-
ton; where there is no idea of sanitation
among the masses where they make