The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-08-18
CHAUTAUQUA
WELL Il ! ! !. ENJOYED
Midland Clautauqua People Please
Dunlap Audiences During Past
Wcek-Engaged Next Season. I
Ex-Goy. BRUMBAUGH SPEAKS
The Royal c. Johnson Lecture on Mon
day Evening One Of the Best Of
the Series.

standard with the Lyceum Arts Trio
giving the prelude in the afternoon.
They we've laboring under the embar.
: rassmenOof not having received their
baggage and had to appear In street
clothes in sftIle afternoon program.
However their baggage came in town
Tor the evenings entertainment. They
made the drive from their last date at
Ida Grove across country.
In the evening, the lecture given BY
Royal G. johnson was one of the best
OF the whole chautauqua, he being
most forceful speaker and spoke in
such a manner that there was not a
person in the entire tent that could
not hear every word that he said and
everyone wanted to, as they were most
intensely interested in his message. He
has been tersely called a live man with
live talk on live subject. His lee
ture is one Of the kind that gives one
something to go home and think about
and ask themselves questions. lie dis
cussed many things that only time will
tell whether they may come true or not.
In the afternoon Miss Hazel Dophiede
gave her reading, '"The Money Maker"
and held her audience spellbound
through the entire time. She is pos.
sessed of splendid personality and
wonderful imagination. In her simpli-
city and unassuming manner she won
the hearts of all
I On Monday, the company who should
have appeared in the afternoon known,
as the Milano Sextette were unable to
appear owing to the death of one Of,
their leading members. This tragedy
Z occurred at Sac City the day previous
when she was instantly killed by an
auto in the streets there. This served
to break up the company so they were
unable to appear and their place was
filled by. another opera company sent
out by the management and they were
able to get here in town to appear for
the evening. The reader who appeared
with this company was able to give
the prelude alone in the afternoon and
pleased the audience very much. The
substitutes who appeared proved very
popular with the audience, especially
the tenor.
Madame N. N. Selivanovaa, the Rus.
sian lady, spoke short time in the
evening and tried to make a talk that
1 would answer the. various. questions
that had been asked about the BOlshe.
vik conditions in RUSSIA. In the after
Il noon she made q very. interesting talk
and asked that when the appeal came
TO us to help sthe Russian people, she
wished we might do SO freely for their
need of an education was great. She Is
a native Russian and Is thoroughly IA,
miliar with the country and the topic
of her lecture was Russian Women and
Their Problem in Facing sBolshevism.'
She was active during the war In work
in hospitals and soup Kitchens and la.
ter was bereft Of her family. She is
spending the remainder of her life IN
an effort to help her sisters that need
help so badly.
The Wales Players the Fourth day
gave a very good program and some OF
the people were pleasantly remembered
as having been here before on the chau.
tauuua splatfOrm. They gave the pre-
lude in the afternoon in a one act com
edy and in the evening the play. Too
Much Business, which was, beautifully
rendered. The rest of the afternoon
was taken up by Mr.. Click, unlver.
sity man who talked on intolerance
and gave some very good thoughts,
and somewhat antagoniZed the people
with socialistic tendencies by his criti-
! cism of the Socialists, !. w. WIS and
the Bolsheviks He was a foreign born
man and spoke most highly OF the ad
vantages he had been able to gain In
this country
Bans Orchestra on the fifth day was
the best by far of any of the musical
numbers that appeared on the whole
course They were Il bunch of young
college boys and were pleasant and
agreeable and gave the public a good
program with lots of snap. Their diff
erent numbers showed a wide variety
so there was no need of anyone not
being pleased.
Doctor Sudhindra Bose, of Calcut Ia,
India, gave lecture that was enjoyed
by all and he spoke quite at length Of
the conditions in India today.
The Edward. Clarke company that ap.
,peared on the sixth day with prelude
in the afternoon and an entire program
at night were a very good number At
night though, the people were reward,
ed by hearing Ex-Gov. Brumbaugh, OF
Pennsylvania that was the headliner
of the whole chaulauqua course. At the
start he announced that he was not
running for Office, he had no axe to
grind and could tell the plain unvar.
nished truthsabout a lot of government
affairs. He told of the necessity Of
raising the National debt, that approxi-
mately we were q nation with an asset
of $4,000, 900, had borrowed $40 ,OOO, 900
and loaned $10.000.0O0. He said that
something should be done to put liber.
ty bonds on par again, and that the, H.
C. of l.. would never be reduced while
people persisted in their useless extra
vagances. Lots of people boasted Of
what they paid for a commodity, not
that they especially needed it.. but of
s now IHuCH tIley paul iOI ~. IlS oLioo
spoke of the folly of so many unhar-
vested crops while the people in great
numbers were patrons of the movies.
All this helped to perpetuate the H. G.
OF L.. Then too, he handed it quite
strongly to the Substituted youth of
the present time and of the inability
of the American young man to meet
the requirements of the examinations
to enter the army that over a third
10 IN n6 n n.
ing 81 per cent. there were II per cent
who were unable to speak our language
and had to be taught that at the begin
ming Of the war.
The seventh and last day, people en-.
joyed the talk by Princess Neawanna,
one of the Ojibwa IndiAn princesses.
who made herself heard and understood
to a remarkable degree and held the
interest of ALL The Temple Choir that
appeared as prelude in the afternoon