Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-30
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
COMING OCTOBER 81
GREAT COMMONER TO OPEN
ENTERTAINMENT COURSE
Brilliant Program of Nations Best Art
Will Mean Big Expense to
the College

The program of the third season of
The Middlebury College Entertainment
Course which has just been announced,
As the greatest endeavor ever made by
any small college to provide expert
talent in concerts for its student body
and friends. The course contracted for
last year was better than the majority
OF its audiences ever had attended be-
fore, out the 1922 program even sur
passes the 1921 great effort.
No less an international character
than William Jennings Bryan, famed
throughout the world as much for his
Silver tongue" oratory as for his tri-
pie defeat in his candidacy for the
presidency, will begin the course on
Monday evening, October 81. This
leader of the Democratic party is not
coming to undermine the solid Re-
publicanism of Vermont but has con-
tracted to appear on the lecture plat
form of the Mead Memorial chapel
with a message of value and interest
10 men of all creeds and all political
beliefs. Mr.. Bryan has had many
years of experience on Chautauqua
and other lecture circuits The privi-
lege of having heard Bryan has been
The boast of millions. He has not noti-
fed the committee OF his subject selec-
ton, but DR.. V. c. Harrington, presi-
dent OF the Student Life Committee
says that the Great Commoner's mes
sage will be wholly pertinent to the
times and his audience.
In equal rank with the Bryan lee
ture can be considered a concert by
he Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
greatest eXponents Of symphony music
n America and among the worlds
first. 1t is very seldom that their
playing is heard in a small town on
account Of the great premium attached
10 their services. Pierre ,Monteux,
he present conductor, has brought the
orchestra to what is thought to be the
highest point in its whole famous his
ory He will bring Middlebury one
hundred men, every one an artist
The first of the two solo concerts
will be given on the cello by the
worlds greatest 'cellist, Senior Pablo
Casals, who has made successful tours
Of all the capt. Z Europe anu So.Hh
America and the principal cities of the
United States. Critics agree that one
has little idea of the resources of this
rich instrument until he has heard
Casals. On Wednesday, January II,
MS famous Spaniard will bring to
Middlebury a program that will de-
monstrate his title to the first rank on
his particular instrument.
The only singing number will be CIV
IN Thursday, February 9, by Hulda
ashanska, soprano, one Of the great
est pupils of the famed Nine, Sem
Drich Nine. Lashanska is regarded
rs being at the height OF her power
1ow. Her voice is considered one of
the best sopranos of the past twenty
yearA This singer of international
note has an interest beyond her art.
Nine. Lashanska is admired as much
tor her devotion to her children as for
her art
The last number of the wonderful
program will be given Wednesday
evening, April 10, by the New York
Chamber Music Society. This organ
zation consists of eleven artists OF the
frst rank who after the close of the
metropolitan musical season accept
contracts for individual concerts. The
combinations of different instruments
which they furnish make a concert of
unusual variety and interest
The college entertainment courses
are not conducted with view to pro-
lit. In fact if every seat for all five
entertainments is sold the deficit will
till remain we'll over a thousand dol
iars. The trustees of the college are
fostering the plan of the best possible
alent for these courses in spite of the
Inevitable deficit in order to afford the
(Continued ou naoP fourl