The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-08-15
Radcliffe Chautauqua Program
1919

dates tor WartDuTS tllcC'udy ihoPi'a
tional community meet are August IL
22.23.
Cooperation with the Radcliffe Chau-
tauqua System, the local organizers OF
this annual getting-together are arrang
ing for rousing time with twelve grip
ping events on the program. Entertain
ment numbers of the first quality are to
he combined with features Illustrative OF
the great central theme of this years
]. nrogram- Education for every American
1 lhild.
. The quickened spirit of democracy
preparing for the dawn OF new era en-
braces Education as the only road to tu-
ture progress. Embarking on crusade
for real education and stalking its success
on the finer and more joyous things OF
life. the Radcliffe Chautauqua and its To-
cal co-operators invite the whole COM
,nunity to make the town the dynamic
cenler of the United States for three
days. 4%
The local Chautauqua promoters are
building for an ideal-a raised standard
of living for everybody. And they are
building with ideas. The program is
loaded with material.
THE FIGHTING YANKS, a group
of military boys in the uniforms they
wore in France, will make the Chautau-
Aqua atmosphere vibrate with the speed
Of their rapid-ire entertainment an the
afternoon and night of the first day.
This organization of instrumentallsts,
vocalists and dramatic entertainers will
give the opening program its humorous
and its rollicking touch, with their COL
orful ''trench" repertory.
THE AGNES MATHIS CO, rollick-
ing youthful spirits, all Of them, but ar
tists ofsthe highest order, will offer two
concerts onsthe second day, These are
skilled mentalists as well as high igl-l|
ID trained yocalists, and their esthetic
musica numbers are offeredin combina-
tion with colorful costume effects. n
THE EMERSON-WINTERS CO.,
will give character TO the last day with
1 their distinctive entertainments A va
ried repertory of readings. impersona-
tions. characterzations and comedy bits
will be offered by this group, both Tor
the amusement values and for the edu-
cat,onal benefits. These talented players
are artists in expression and their acted
episodes, solos and recitals are expected
to be of high cultural value.
The six lecturers are not less enter
tanning, witty, snappy and radiant, one
is assured, but they have very serious
purpose. The big, throbbing question OF
the hour is Education. The Chautauqua
orators and demonstrators will make
this subject ring.
COL. G. A. GEARHART, broad, elo-
ouent, keen, analytical, constructive,
4he master of 5000 audiences, will give
the opening afternoon lecture on THE
LAMP OF ALADDIN" l." This lecture
will be remembered long after the khaki
tent has departed. There will be stlmu-
lated brains and aroused emotion before
he has finished with his graphic picture
of the achievements of the trained minds |
of the world. His evening subject, "THE
GREATEST THING THAT MEN MAY
KNOW, will promote ideals of true ed
ucation, not of the hands alone, nor yet
OF the head only, but of the heart.
The marshal of this educational cru
SADIE will be the Chautauqua Director,
DIR. s. H. Givler who, on the night OF the
second day, will carry the central theme
to a practical level under the.topic, THE
PROBLEM OF THE UNPREPARED
The Ditector will inject fresh elements
into social life and, in snappy, live-wire
phases. awaken up to the backward con-
d;tions of American life. His third night
tonic will be PUSHING BACK THE
HORIZON Individual, Home, Com
n,unity. fertile subject that invites
eloouence and imagery but that affords
also a valuable basis for objective in
struction in ideals.
OF particular significance will be the
lecture on tHOME-MAKING" and the
conference on THE HOUSE AROUND
THF CORNER" by the Radcliffe Wo-
man Specialist in Home-Engineerlng, on
The afternoon of the second day. That
she will be listened to with absorbing
interest by both men and women Is the
assurance given because Of the sclentihc