The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-07-03
Your Vacation At Home At
ChautauGua.

Good Music-Unusually Strong Lecture
High Glass Entertainment Five Grea
Days-Money Will be Saved on Season
Tickets y Buying Early.
For those who have not yet solved the
vacation problem, the Community Chau-
tauqua, with world of entertainment il
offers comes as happy solution. 1t will
open here in about four weeks, and all
those who intend to take vacation al
that time, can take it right at home, get
ting all the best of the city'S entertain
ment without the expense and discom-
fort of travel
The program opens with notable lee
ture by the noted English engineer Tile
nt-Thomason, who has been brought
over from England by the Community
Chautauqua especially for this lecture
tour. He has long been head of the Brit
ish Lecture League, one of the most in
tluential institutions in England, and
gained great prominence during the early
days of the war by his remarkable an
slySls of the German war plans long be-
fore they became apparent to the Allied
military powers.
On the same evening, appears the de-
pany, which gives program of charming
music, while Miss Sheehan herself will
entertain with her clever Irish readings.
The second days program is made
notable by the appearance of the great
Charles 7. Grilley, the prince of enter
tanners, who is this year making his first
triumphant tour under Chautauuua man.
agement 10 greet the great audiences that
have long known and loved him. He
gives the famous dialect stories and i'm
personations that are source of unfailing
Joy, and in addition there is the delightful
musical accompaniment furnished by his
daughter, Virginia Grilley, the talented
young harpiSt. On the evening of the
same day comes the greatest and most
thrilling educational and dramatic lecture
ever presented, for the noted authority
on heredity, Albert Edward Wiggam,
presents his great lecture, "Climbing the
Family Tree"
A rare treat for lovers of music comes
on the third afternoon and evening when
the Russian String Quartet gives two
great concerts. This famous music al
company has the unique reputation of
presenting the greatest masterpieces of
music SO simply and so beautifully that
their power is felt by everyone whether
a student of music or not. That concert
in the evening serves as the prelude of
the remarkable lecture given by Thomas
Brooks Fletcher, noted newspaper editor
and prophet Of big business, who has in-
spired thousands to success,
There isn't person in the town who
will want to miss the feature of the
fourth afternoon and evening, for the APP
pearance cf Carolyn Reed and the Juve-
nile Four is one of the most unique offer
ings that ever appeared ON any platform.
Never before have such talented child ar
lists appeared together as are offered IN
this one number. First there are the
famous Swenson Twins, Ruby and Ruth,
who present clever pantomime dances
that make the characters of Mother
Goose live before the audiences. With
them is hob, the twelve year old genius
of The Viohr,
The lecturer of the fourth evening is
the well-known Congressman, Louis W.
Fairfield, whose remarkable career as
college president and statesman has Civ
en- him broad outlook for the solution
OF present day problems. His career is
not unlike that of Lincoln, to whom he
bears SO remarkable resemblance, that
he has won he nickname of Honest Abe
His lecture & yes an inspiring solution for