The Mena weekly star., 1921-07-14
.CHAUTAUQUA COMES
 !. TO SUCCESSFUL CLOSE
1921 Program Was We'll Selected With View of Pleasing All-Guar- antors Insure Session Next
 Year.

audience cheering 10 stfalhs Vi "Dixie,s and all standing IS the band played "The Star Spangled Banner" The last night witnessed one of the largest audiences during the session, which is proof that the folks of Meua have not lost the Chautauqua sairlt.
 The program this year was remark ably well balanced, and from the open ing number by the Comedy Male i Quartet to the last number by the band, the interest was well sustained. The diversity of the attraction indl- cates that those who had to do with inc making of the chauauqua program have studied the needs of the average community, endeavoring to so arrange the features so that everyone who at tends will find something that appeals to him.
 The afternoon of the third day was the big day for the children when Capt. Frank c. Armitage was the at- 1 traction. His stunts in magic art and his work in ventriloquism were on the program for the sake of the kiddies. and folks like the writer who are beginning to approach second childhood, and hence can still enjoy such work and at the same time en- joy still greater the fact that the hld- dies are having a good time. Aside | from his work in ventrlloqGlsm anc magic, Captain Armitage gave some marvelously fine interpretations of | Dickens characters, and to those who had read David Copperfeld, The Tale of Two Cities and others of Dickens works, this portrayal of character as | they had seen them on the printed page was a treat. worth the price of | the Chautauqua. Mr. ArIniTage did more than that. He deyiated from ] his regular program, and gave to his | Mena audience an insight to the horrors of the World War and also told what an important place enter tainment had in the life of the hDys at the front, telling also that the | Canadian soldiers, of which he was one. had to create their own enter tainment and amusement features, us- ing for that purpose the boys wound- l ed and otherwise disabled. MT. Ar mitage closed his program with a wonderful interpretation Of Sidney | OarIon, Idkeu l1onl lhe isle VI A"O | Cities.
 The play, Friendly Enemies, !" given on the night of the third day was the high peak in the entertain ment feature of the Chautauqua. It is a great play, and was presented in Mena by a cast of fine players. The characters of Henry Bloch and Carl Pfeiffer were especially strong. They were the friendly enemies, and while discussing their differences of opin- ion, there arose some very unique sit nations of comedy, ard with these were intense dramatic scenes. Thru it all was the wholesomeness of love of man and wife, father and son, and the love of country of adoption which triumphed in the end, uniting the friendly enemies. and teaching les son of true American'Srl, which is the purpose of the great play.
 To music lovers the great treat came with the appearance of i)wal c Russell's Scottish Revue, the numhei for the afternoon of the fourth day
 Mir. Russell has a splendid baritone voice, is a trained artist such as it i. not often the privilege of Mena aud
 fence to hear. His program was var
 jed, numbers oeing given in Scottish and Irish costumes, anl in spite oi the warmth of the afternooa, get l. person left the tent while MT. Russell
 was in action. He was admirably supported by Miss Edith Buckley, ae companist, and Miss Kate Reed vio
 linist. The Harry Lauder songs ap
 pealed especially to the audience, bu
 not more so than the rendering ot musical oddities such as "Simplt Sandy and "McNamara's Band" fh, latter being sung by Mr. Rissel dressed in Irish costume. "Anni,
 Laurie" sung by special request a
 the evening program was one of thu finest numbers on the program
 Capt. Cyrus Nusbaum, communiti specialist, followed the prelude giveI Thursday night by Howard Russelli
 Scottish Revue, and while his tim' was cut short on account of some worl being done looking toward the contin
 uation of the Chautauqua for another year, Captain Nusbaum for forty-fv,
 minutes poured out to his audience great program of community bIilding
 "The Building of a Real Community, 7
 was the subject of his lecture, and il
 his address he devoted most of his at
 tentiOn to the undeveloped opportuni
 ties that he discovered in and abou
 Mena in his stay of almost two day
 in the city. He plead especially fo
 the building of a community whicl
 will bring the folks of the farm ant
 those of the city closer together, an,
 to that end suggested the building O a great community house where peo pie from country and town can mee on common ground and discuss thei
 mutual problems and work out tn salvation of the development f tn country The theme of Captain Nus baum's lecture was built around fiv clements, the development of tn
 home, the school, the church and thel the commercial and social interests O : the community. The great asset thi
 section of the country possesses il climate, water and scene condition appealed especially to this communit, expert, and he congratulated Men, and it's citizenship that there wer those who had a vision of the possi | bihties of the development of thes ! assets. Likewise he congratulated tn citlzenship on the beautiful natura park, the fine homes and the splendi, 2 spirit of the people with whom h came in contact. Capt. Nusbaam ma, I come back to Mena some day to de
 liver series of talks on communit,
 building at which time it is hoped tha
 the business interests will see to i that the farmers and their wives an, : children will be given an opportunit, 1 to hear his messages of good fellow a ship, cooperation and sociability.
 Miss Katherine Miglairio, circui ' manager for the White x Mver :. l (haufaunua nn Sn1.thn u.....