The Holly chieftain., 1919-05-22
TALK ON HUMBUCS
AND M0SSBACKS
Cairns on First Night at
Holly Chautauqua.
TUESDAY, MAY 27 FIRST OF
BIG FIvE-DAY PROGRAM
Quality and Glass of Entertainment
This Year Above Previous Years,
Advance Agents Promise-Lots
of Music for Each Days Session.

VI MuslC ioI 6dCu LAY oeSSlou.
About everything is in readiness
for the opening of the Holly Chau-
taquua next Tuesday afternoon.
The season ticket committee has
been hustling and the country peO-
pie have been exceptionally respon-
sive this year.
FIRST DAY
Edna Means is revelation to peo-
pie who think they know the limi-
tatiOnS of an impersOnator, for in
mimicry and comedy she has
created her own field She plays
her parts in appropriate costumes
and her impersOnatiOn of the far
mer in the calf story has stuck in
the memory of the people in every
town where she has appeared.
The Eva Anderson Company, com
posed of Eva Anderson and Lillian
Sellers, give an entertaining pro-
gram of novelty music and imper-
sOnations. Eva Anderson is a viO-
linist of wide experience in Chautau-
qua work, and Miss Lillian Sellers
is an accomplished pianist These
two young ladies assist Edna Means
in several mirth-prOvoking sketch
eS..
Alexander Cairns is an Irish lee
turer with Irish wit and Irish SYM
Dathy. His lecture on "Humbugs
and Mossbacks" deals with social
and political problems. The broad
and deep sympathy that has in
duced him to work among the lower
classes in New York City and to
champion the just causes of the
dOWn-trOdden classes is reflected in
this lecture.
SECOND DAY
Judge Mannfprd Schoonover
might be called the Ben Lindsay
of Kansas, for he is builder of
manhood and wOmanhoOd In his
home town of Garnett, everybody
knows the Judge The Judge has
seen some of the rough edges of
life and he points them out to the
people, particularly the young
folks.
William Rainey Bennett has long
been one of the headliners in the
Chautauqua and Lyceum world.
His reputation as a speaker is al
most national. He talks about
''Hhe Man Who Can" He inspires
people with confidence in them
selves. Many people are occupying
much smaller places than they are
competent to fill The reason they
don't branch out is because they
lack confidence.
THIRD DAY
A New York cast of opera singers
will sing the Mascot, one of the
most popular of the light operas.
Each and every one of these singers
is Il musical artist of established
reputation. They will sing their
parts in appropriate costumes,
which represent the dress worn by
various classes of Italy, in the Fiji
teenth Century. The opera will be
sung in English.
FOURTH DAY
Everyone remembers the Military
Girls, who were so popular on the
circuit for two seasons. The Regi.
is a company of five young
ladies with a program somewhat
similar to that rendered by The
Girls These young ladies
are all splendid musicians and give
a program of Instrumental and vo.
cal music in ensemble quartet and
solo.
John B. Ratio is one of the
best known impersonatOrs in Amer
lea That has been his life's work.
He has studied his characters and
he has lived them. When he speaks
as Gen. Grant, the Deacon, the Min
ister, or the Italian, he speaks as
those people would speak if they
could.
FIFTH DAY
The Glen Wells Company. com,
posed of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wells.
will be the entertainment attrac-
ton the fifth day. They will pre-
sent a varied and artistic program.
They have reduced the business of
fun for people to an art.
Harriet Bird Warren is going to
speak Of the place the women are
going to have in the new social and
conditions which have
been gradually crystali1ng since
The end of the war.
Mrs. Warren was in the ambu-
lance service in France and has
toured the United States from
coast to coast.