The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-06
Chautauqua Week
In Greeneville

Inc large audience at the heupatl
Chautauqua, yesterday, expected
much of KryPs band. All announce
ments had promised rare musical
treat. If a single person was dis
appointed, we have not heard of it..
The band is so responsive to its great
conductors will that its twenty-five
or more pieces seem like single in
strument of marvellous range and
precision. The programs rendered
were varied-including popular airs
and hymns as well as the classics
but uniformly satisfying. The cor
net solos by Mr.. Kryl delighted ex-
ceedingly. Very pleasant also were
the grace and dignity of his bearing.
A better band than Kryl's has GER
tainly never been heard in Greene
vile, if anywhere else.
The usual high standard of the
Redpath Chautauqua has been main
tanned throughout the week. Indeed,
the performances of this year are
superior in many respects to those OF
last year. Seldom have we heard
the equals of Miss Ada Ward, Miss
Billiard, or Mr.. Kline. The first of
these endeared not only herself but
her much misunderstood country
England, to the immense congrega-
ton on Sunday evening. Such rem
nants of ill-feeling toward Great
Britain as may linger here and there
in America, will utterly disappear
wherever this charming feminine hu-
morist has chance to smile them
away. Miss Billiards. ingenious and
graphic description of her service
as nurse in France increased, if pos
sible, our admiration for the Red
Cross and for American womanhood.
The address Monday evening, by Mr..
R. E. P. Kline was plea for ideal
ism in international and industrial
relations so pleasingly presented
that his listeners travelled an hour
and fifteen minutes with him with
out the least tire trouble. His ex-
position and defense of the constitu-
ton of the League of Nations was
very Illuminating and convincing.
The big event of Wednesday was
the debate by Prof. Queblin and Gov.
Shaw on government ownership of
railroads. The subject, of course,
was too large to be discussed thor
oughly in a single evening, but the
/. salient points both pro and con were
brought out by the speakers instruc-
lively and interestingly. Gov.
Shaw's wit elected frequent applause.
The audience was, perhaps, almost
unanimously opposed to government
ownership. The fact that it receiv.
ed Prof. Queblin's advocacy of SC
unpopular a measure with evident
appreciation proves his skill as ar
orator. ...
Discerning critics were highly
pleased with Nine. Lensky's singing
on Tuesday evening. Her voice as
to quality and control showed extra
ordinary talent and training, and hel
selections were well-chosen. In the
same high class of musical excellence
were the offerings of the Great
Lakes Quartet, as also were those Of
the Orchestral Sextette, the Har-
vesters and the Dublin girls. In fact
not single performance has de-
served anything but praise.
Will the Chautauqua come here
again, next year? That depends up
on the people Of Greeneville. 1t
would seem nothing less than a public
calamity to allow an institution at
once so pleasure-giving and educa-
tional to lapse from among US for
'ack of adequate support. The
Chautauqua ministers to every taste
except a depraved taste. 1t brings
clean entertainment that any moral
human being will enjoy, 1t fosters
public spirit and is the friend of
every civic improvement. 1t makes
possible to the masses in small towns
the hearing of university professors,
nation-famous statesmen, and Met
topolitan artists. 1t solves for the
time being the amusement problem.
1t is not a mercenary enterprise, but
exists to serve in the wider diffusion
Of Christian culture.
Can we afford indifference to so
valuable an ally of our churches and
schools? Our neighbors, Boris
town and Johnson City, seem to have
adopted the Chautauqua permanent
ly Can our pride, if nothing else,
permit us to show ourselves less pro
gressive than they? Dare we adver-
tise to the world that Greeneville is