The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20
DATES POR ANNUAL
CHAUTAU0UA ARE
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Maysville Chautauqua TO BE July TO
IL Inclusive - Three Great Head
Line Attractions Are An
nOunced For Week.


The annual Maysville Chautauqua
will be held July 6, Z. 8. 8, 10, II, ~,
according to word received by George
Kirk, Secretary Chamber of Com
merce.
The big seven-day event that has
become a feature every summer will
again be under the Coit-Alber auspices
and will be held under the big tent
that will be pitched at Beechwood
Park. The program promises to be the
best thus far presented
Three Headline Attractions Announced
There will be a headline attraction
in each of the three departments of
platform art: music, drama, and ora
tory.
The musical headliner is Miss Jessie
Isabel Christian of the Chicago Opera
Company who will appear in fine re-
cital program the evening of the sixth
day. Miss Christian is an American
girl who has won fame in operate cir
cles not only in this country but
abroad as we'll, since she was one of
the singers in the Theatre Lyrique
Municipal. Paris, before she was en-
gagged by the late Cleofante Campanini
to sing the leading roles with the Chi
cago forces. When Mdme, Camelita
Galli-Curci was i'll recently, Miss
| Christian was put on on short notice
to sing her role and she did it so well
| that she was given an ovation. Later
she was called upon when the Chicago
Company was touring the west to ap-
pear six times as substitute for Melba
| who was i'll and could not appear. II
is impossible to put any singer to
more severe test. Miss Christian
scored a pronounced success on each
occasion and is considered one of the
best and most dependable artists with
the Chicago Opera Company which
now is one of the greatest in the
world. She will be assisted by Miss
Geraldine Edgar, violiniste, and Mr.,
| Robert Macdonald, pianist.
Excellent Play Company in Famous
Comedy Coming.
In the past no attraction has proved
more popular in Maysville than the
| play companies that have presented
comedies at Chautauqua. Coit-Alber
has done we'll TO schedule again an ex-
cellent play company, directed by the
well-known Percival Vivian who now
has a following here. After much ne
gotiating with the owners of the copy
right, Willie Golfers greatest comedy
success has been secured, Nothing
but the Truth" a play that enjoyed a
run of nearly two years in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, and other east
ern cities. A young stock-broker wag-
ers with his senior partner Ito whose
and others that he can tell nothing
but the truth" for twenty-four hours.
The situations that grow out of this
wager make one of the richest come
dies the American stage has known.
Chautauqua patrons will enjoy this
play immensely; it is said to be even
more laugh provoking than the Cohan
success of last summer, "Seven Keys
to Baldpate."
Dr. s. Parkes Cadman, Great Orator,
Booked.
One of the worlds greatest orators
and preachers. is scheduled for lee
ture and his appearance will mark a
red letter day in the chautauqua cal
endar for Maysville. DR.. S. Parkes
Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y, has long
been rated by those that know as one
of Americas two or three greatest
preachers; in addition to being a great
preacher, he is a man of affairs and an
orator with few. if any, equals in the
English-speaking world. His time is
contracted for so far in advance that
Coit-Alber have been trying to secure
his services for this chautauqua cir
cult for ten years but until this season
he has always been engaged elsewhere
and he was secured for this season
only by making the arrangement sew
eral seasons in advance. When he
speaks here, he will use as his sub
ject, 1.-THE Mission of the Republic, -
one of the soundest and best lecture
messages for this time that could be
chosen for the coming summer,
Thirteen splendid programs will be
presented in all and Mr. Kirk promises
that former standards will be excelled
also that detailed announcement Of the
entire program will be made soon.