Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-18
OFFICERS CHOSEN
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
Principal Warren President and
Moffitt Secretary
Tent on Grounds of High School Week
of Aug. 21-This Years Program
Especially Attractive.

! Especially Attractive.
Guarantors for the coming season 3
Chautauqua entertainments, the week
of Aug. 81, who constitute the Brattle
boro Chautauqua association. met in the
board of trade rooms July 10 and
organized by electing officers. There
was also discussion of the program
which is especially attractive this year
and of other matters pertaining to the
project. No general canvass to secure
guarantors has been made, and it was
the sense of the meeting that the public
be given an opportunity to share the re.
sponsibility for the enterprise for the
public good To that end it is probable
that an effort will be made to double tho
present number of guarantors. The tent
will be erected on the high school
grounds as formerly.
Principal Julius +. Warren of the high
school was elected president. Harold T.
Motif secretary, William L. HINT treas
urcr and these three with Walter T.
Bartlett and Will B. Smith executive
committee. This committee will appoint
| other committees.
While q definite program for Chau-
tauoua week has not been submitted the
local organization already has received
some information regarding the bill of
entertainments, which should prove OK
tremclv interesting, instructive and en-
tertaining.
The program on circuit B, which in
cludes Brattleboro, will be opened by
unique company of musicians and en-
tcrtainers, the three Zwimmer sisters
appearing with harps. They also play
the violin and piano and sing. They
will be accompanied by Miss Wilma
Dearborn Carter, who will give read
ings and song stories. In the evening of
the same day DR.. Carolyn f. Gesel. who
has been connected with the Battle
Creek sanatorium the past 90 years,
will present clarion call to larger
and healthier life in her lecture, Just
You. DR.. Geisel is a physician. surgeon,
educator, philanthropist and lecturer.
and has given much of her time during
the past 10 years to Chautauqua lecture
work
DIR. Jesse Fl. Holmes. secretary of the
Chautauqua association, will bring n
vital reconstruction message in his lee
tnre, The Golden Egg. The Berkeley
Sextctte, acknowledged to be one of the
most popular ladies orchcstras in the
United States, will furnish the enter
tainment the afternoon of one day.
Sergeant Ruth Farnum, who was dec
Grated by the Serbian king for service
to Serbia in the war against Bulgaria
in 1918. again decorated and made SER
geant in the Royal Serbian army in
1914 in recognition of valiant service
when Austria attacked Serbia, and re-
ceived third decoration for valor on
the battlefield in the famous battle of
Brod, will tell the story of the women
and children in the war. and the recon-
structional needs over there.
All lovers of the opera, Robin Hood.
will find the Chautauqua entertainment
of one of the evenings pleasing with
Pauline Correla and Ricardo Boneli
on the program. The company will
consist of four people, the assisting ar
fists being Miss Ruth Collingbourne,
violinist, and Gabriel Hines, pianist.
The program will be of vocal and in
strumental music, and Mr.. Bonelli will
sing Brown October Ale.
Local boys and girls will take part
in the junior Chautauqua production.
which will be staged the last day of
Chautaudua. There will be two junior
leaders this year and there will be more
games, more stunts, more folk dances
than ever before, and they will present
the play, The Wop. Following the play
Professor Pamahasika pets, which in
clude cockatOos. macaws, Arabian doves,
Japanese fantail pigeons, mourning tur-
tie doves, canary birds, house cats, Per
sian cats, a monkey and dogs, will per-
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from the recent world war.
Russia IS Death and Resurrection
will be the subject of lecture by DIR.
George Lawrence Parker, who was pas
tor of the British American Congrega-
tonal church in Petrograd, Russia, soon
after the Gapon Rebellion, living in that
city and serving its people three years.
The popular American play, The For
tune Hunter, will be presented by the
famous College Players. A European
speaker of international distinction will
be engaged to discuss the great world
problem, This Town and the World, as
one feature of Chautauqua week, but
his name cannot be announced at this
time.
Excellent leading characters. clabor-
ate scenery and costumes and tuneful
music will make the presentation of
II. NJ. S. Pinaforc pleasing produc-
ton. The Eekhoff-Jordan company of
musicians is composed of four Young
women, Miss Myra Louise EekhofI. who
has lyric soprano voice; Miss Irma
Jordan, who is a celist; Miss Marion
Jordan, flutist; and Miss Edna Jones.
pianist and accompanist.
versatile entertainer will be found
in Edward c. Parmenter, impersonator,
who has just returned from France.
where he helped keep up the spirits of
the boys who are waiting to come home
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