The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-31
Thursday Night
Was Joy Night
At Chautauqua

May Is, 1919:
The last and best program of the
Redpath Chautauqua was given on
Thursday night. "Joy Night" at the
Redpath Chautauqua registered many
degrees higher in every way than adj
vance announcements promised. The
joy was all there, and to spare
abundantly supplied by Alton Pack
ard, the cartoonist and humorist
with a half hour pre:ude by the
Metropolitan Quartette Of Chicago,
whose singing proved even more pop
ular than IN their afternoon concert.
Old favorite songs delighted the
crowd. Miss Silver sang "The Last
Rose of Summer" with rare charm
and grace, 1.-The Sextette from Lucia"
was given with fine spirit and Loves
Old Sweet Song" was gem of beauty
and the prelude closed with noble
rendition of "The Homeward Way"
Supt. Kennedy introduced Alton
Packard with a few jests and a word
of commendatio nand the fun began.
1t is very seldom that a Greenville
audience becomes as thoroughly and
completely given over to merriment
and whole-hearted laughter as the
one in the big tent last night. The
audience was the largest of the en-
tire week, filling the tent to the edges
and standing in rows at the rear
The applause and laughter which
swept over the big crowd was like
Joyful sort of music rising in ncreas-
ing cresendo to a climax in the final
beautiful scene, which the cartoonist
placed upon the big blank sheet of
paper in a seemingly magical way
and with CELEBRITY nothing short of
miraculous.
Mr.. Packard gives humorous and
satircal lecture accompanying the
sketching of enormous cartoons, eight
feet square on sheets of paper and
canvas equally huge.
The subject last night was vanity
Fair" portrayal in sketch, cartoon
and song of human vanities from the
springtime of life to the winter of
old age. A bowling baby first came
upon the scene, and then the boy of
the brookside, fishing, a beautiful
scene that made every heart in the
audience respond as the artist recited, .
while sketching, the tender verses of
Riley's Little Brook" The vanities
of youth followed; dress, display, and
folly. Then beauty was discussed. !
both humorously and seriously while .
two lovely types Of womanly beauty
were painted in glowing colors by
the artist. Then followed songs,
"The American Girl" "Henriette,
the Suffragette," and "When You
Get What You Want, You Don't
Want It." song which sent the big .
crowd reeling off into roars of laugh
tie rand brought forth encore after
apnoro until M, Do,1,,,l L,l ,,...
seven or eight verses and then he
began on some stories which tickled .
some folks almost to the point of
Mysteries, while others, less emotional, .
were content to chuckle and encore
The vanity of racing for riches was
most forcbly brought out in pro-
gressive cartoon of the rloney-crazed .
youth and his career. Then "Vanity
Fair" came to a splendid, glowing
climax in the scene where old age
was represented as coming to life's
sunset, with the evening star bright
~ shining in the blue above the gold
en- hues, a symbol of hope and prom
Use and a most beautiful sentiment
with which to close the program of
the evening, as we'll as the 1919
Chautauqua.
"Joy Night" was a success. It
brought joy of the best and highest
quality. "Vanity Fair" by Alton
Packard, was undoubtedly the very
best entertainment feature of a splen-
did chautauqua program. Mr. Pack
ard had appeared before in Green
vile, on the lyceum course and the
immense audience was marked
tribute to his former success.
The Chautauqua is booked for next
year with the Textile Exposition
company, which will carry it to
successful conclusion without doubt
insuring the return of this most i'm
nOrtant Influence in tho devalonrrap+