The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-06-06
GOOD PROGRAM
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
PROGRAM SAID TO BE BEST
EVER OFFERED
HERE.
S MORE COSTLY
Chautauqua Opens Wednesday
In Big Tent On High
School Grounds;
Tickets On Sale.


Noted speakers and entertainers
feature the Chautauqua which opens
here On next Wednesday, The pro
gram, which is said to be the best
ever offered by the Redpath Bureau,
is one that is not only educational,
but is highly entertained as well. Mr..
Joe B. Tye, advance man for the
Chautauqua, states that $340 more is
being spent each week for the talent
than was spent last year. With such
numbers as the Premier Singers and
Players, The Nipple Concert Com
pany, Thomas Brooks Fletcher-the
noted lecturer; the Red Grenadiers,
thirteen-piece band; the Rich Werno
Company and the many other num-
bers it cannot help but be a success.
( These entertainers and lecturers are
the best that can be gotten, and their
success in other towns is in way
fair measure of their ability, In
Jackson, Miss, and in fact in most
every other city on the circuit, the
seating capacity has had to be made
/ larger, to accomodate the people.
The Chautauqua tent will be locat-
ed on the Stephen D. Lee High School
grounds.
New tents too, will be feature
that will please everyone. In order
to better the comfort of the people
and to insure the best of conditions
for the programe, new tents and
equipment have been purchased.
These new auditorium tents cover a
space of 80x150 feet, and have a seat
/ ing capacity of close to nine hundred
people. They are made Of the heav-
est Of tent quck material and are
absolutely waterproof. They are
made SO as to give the best possible
ventilation; the lighting system in
them is also so arranged that the
program is visable to all parts of the
tent.
The ticket sales for this years
! Chaatauqua are being handled by the
Boy Scouts Of this city. The Scouts
star ted their campaign Thursday and
have followed up the work ardently
ever since. They are making a can
vass of the entire town and intend to
let no one escape without having
bought a ticket. The price of the
adult tickets is $2.48 and of the
child's tickets $1.27. Both of these
prices include the war tax.
The Junior Chautauqua this year is
to be conducted by Miss McComb
This Chautauqua for the little folks
which is a part of every years en-
tertainmcnt, is free to all the children
of the city There are no tickets re-
ouircd to attend. The opening will
be at 10 o'clock on the opening day
Contrary to custom, Miss MeComt
wants to meet the children on the
first day in order that they may be
gin their work sooner on the child
ren's pagent, which is to be a part OF
the last days program. The Pageant
this year is THE Good Fairy Thrift u
The Premier singers and Players
will open the program, with Grand
Concert, at $50 the first day. This
company is composed of four young
ladies whose music and miscellaneous
program is delight to all who hear
it. Their program is given in three
parts. Their first appearance is II
Irish costume, in which they sing anc
play a number of the good old famil-
lar Irish songs. The second IS II
Salvation Army costume, in which
they revive memories of the tragedies
of war. The last is given in evening
dress and is composed Of mostly
classical music. A number Of parts
are given from the standard operas
Miss Gladys Peterson, cornetist anc
reader; Miss Dyer, cello player; Mis-
Allen, piano player and Miss Peter
son, violin and soprano, compose tn,
company.
On the evening of the first day th'
Premier Singers and Players agail
appear for a thirty minutes entertain
ment as a prelude to DR.. G. L. Park
er's lecture on "The Man Of The New
Age" DR.. Parker who is Massa
chussetts man who has spent grea
= part of his life studying men, an'
: he knows them from top to bottom
In his inspirational lecture he point
out in a most effective way the need
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