Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1920-07-30
PREPARATIONS
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
Organization With Rev. A. V
Woodwork President.
Advance Agent Meets Guarantors -
Entertainments Begin Aug. IL and
End Aug. 23-The Program.

Officers and committees for the Brat
tleboro Chautauqua, which VIII open
Tuesday afternoon, Aug. H., were elected
"wednesday evening at meeting OF the
g,iarantors, Rev. A. V. Woodwork OF
West Brattleboro being elected president
H. c. Metzner, the adyanfe Chautauqua
representative, was present to confer
with the various chairmen of committees.
He will leave today, and the second
advance man will be here for week or
more preceding the opening of the pro
gram. Mrs. Munro will be the superin-
tendent this year, this being the first
time that woman superintendent has
had charge of the circuit in which Brat.
tleboro has been included, and she VIII
meet the guarantors the evening of Aug,
10.
At least four musical entertainments,
afternoon and evening, will be given, in
Guiding the Kilties band, the greatest
Scottish band in the world. Lectures, H.
Illustrated lectures, a comedy drama, Re
bccca of Sunnybrook Farm, junior Chau
tauqua pageant and other features will
be on the list of entertainments, as well
as special Sunday program.
The Brattleboro organization is made
up as follows: Pres, Rev. A. V. Wood
worth; Sec, Carl S. Hopkins; treas,
Harry c. Freeman; ticket chairman, Mrs,
Will b. Smith; grounds, Sanford A. Dan
iels; hospitality, Mrs. Ebert Simons;
junior Chautauqua, Miss Sylvia Crosby
and Miss Malva Roberts.
Mrs Smith already has arrangements
well under way for the distribution and
sale of season tickets, which should sell
more readily this year than ever before
because of the fact that the price OF
single admission tickets to both the
afternoon and evening performances has
been advanced, while the season ticket
pr &c remains the same as heretofore.
Aside from the series lecture by the
Chautauqua superintendent each after
noon, the outline of the program follows,
performances beginning at 2,30 and 7.30
O'Clock:
First day: Afternoon-Concerta and
entertainment by the McGrath Batting
Entertainers; evening-McGrath- Batting
Entertainers, and lecture, This Way Up,
by Chancellor George II. Bradford.
Second day: Afternoon-Concer
Suwannee River (negro) quartet, intro.
ducing banios, guitars and mandolins;
evening-Suwannee River quartet, and
illustrated lecture by DR.. Edward Burton
Mac Dowell, Around the World.
Third day: Afternoon-Russian Ca.
thcdral choir, selected in open contest by
the former car as the four best singers
in all the Russias; evening Ca
thcdral choir, and lecture by DR.. Frank
Dohn on Revolutionary Europe.
Fourth day: Afternoon&Full concert
by the Kilties band; evening-Grand con.
cert by Kilties band, including solo mum.
bers, Scotch dancing, and the bagpipes.
Fifth day. Afternoon-Lecture by
AInosaku Toshi Yamamoto on What of
Japan? jolly Polly, the Chautauqua
clown, and the McDonough-S ynott enter
tainers; evening-Comedy drama, Re.
becca of Sunnybrook Farm, by Chautau
qua players.
Sixth day: Afternoon-Junor Chau.
tauqua pageant A Mother Goose Party,
also clown and juggling program by
Hughie Fitzpatrick and Wallace Have
lock; evening-Lecture by Hon. Crawford
Vaughan, former premier of South Aus
tralia, on Australa's Industrial Crisis
How We Met 1t.
The Chautauqua performers will come
to Brattleboro from Winchester, n. H.,
and will 60 from here to Ludlow.