The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-13

ATTRACTIONS OF
MUCH EXCELLENCE
Program Opens Saturday, Aug. %, Clos
ing Following Friday Night-Sunday
Program by Saturday Entertainers -
Tenth Anniversary.

Tenth Anniversary.
Preparations for the campaign prelim-
mary to the opening of Chautauqua in
Brattleboro were made last night in the
Chamber of Commerce rooms, when
guarantors for this seasons course met
with Miss Grace Hershey, advance agent
| of the Americanadian circuit of the
Swarthmore Chautauqua association.
Chairmen of committees were elected
and after a talk by Miss Hershey as to
the necessity of working for as large an
oversale as possible she outlined the pro-
gram for this year, which will open in
Brattleboro Saturday, Aug. 81, two
weeks from today. Miss Hershey called.
attention to the fact that this is the 10th
anniversary year of Chautauqua and to
the fact that while many things in the
| current times have a depressing effect
I people continue to patronize the Chau-l
tauqua entertainment because they lift
| depression.
! 1t was stated that the talent would
come here from Claremont on the noon
/ train and would stay over night, leaving
on the 7.53 train for Williamstown,
j Mass.
Chairman 4. V. Woodworth of West
Brattleboro presided at the meeting.
j Carl $. Hopkins previously had been
elected secretary and Harry c. Freeman
treasurer. The following chairmen of
} committees were elected: Advertising.
Arthur L. Clapp; ticket selling, r. Bligh
Teller; grounds, lighting and hauling,
Sanford \. Daniels; hospitality. Mrs. FL
bert Simons; Junior Chautauqua, Mrs.
Ernest Y. Barre. The chairmen were
authorized to choose their assistants.
This years program is regarded as the
: best ever planned by the Chautauaua
2 Following is an outline:
Saturday, Aug. Announcements
/ by the superintendent, Mr. Kammeyer ;
concert, Eekhoff- -Colafemina Co., consist
ing OF a soprano, tenor, hutiSt and plan
D lSC In the evening the company will
5 give a concert and Julius Caesar Nayphe,
: an Athenian, viii give a/lecture in cos
r tune, demonstrating an Oriental pag-
cant.
I Sunday, Aug. 2S-The artists of Sat
2 urday will have charge of the program
al Monday, Aug. 29-Morning. Junior
I Chautauqua. Afternoon, concert and en-
f tertainment by the Misses Hoyt in inn
. presentations, action songs, ballads, duets
and solos, with an excellent pianist.
: Evening, the Misses Hoyt also lecture on
: Child Life by Mrs. Helen b. PauIsen.
!. who uses tiny figures representing
- Mother Goose characters. Chautauqua
: has been trying to get Mrs. pausen for
: several years.
/ Tuesday, Aug. 3O-Morning, Junior
= Chautauqua. Afternoon, series lecture :
r concert by the Howell Concert party.
i consisting of a Welsh baritone, vi0linist
and contraltO, all talented and expert
= enced Chautauqua artists. Evening,
concert by Howell Concert party, and
lecture by Arthur Hunt Chute, an au-
thor, publicist and preacher of note.
whose theme will be The New World
- Spirit.
[ Wednesday, Aug 31-Morning, Junior
Chautauqua. Afternoon, concert by OPP
| cratic Orchestral club. Evening light
: opera, The Bohemian Girl, with full cast,
chorus and orchestra.
Thursday, Sept. Morning, Junior
Chautauqua. Afternoon. musical enter
5 tainment, the Metropolitan artists; lee
|, ture. The Business of Men, by Fred Dale
a Wood. one of the best Informed men be-
e fore the public. Evening. comedy drama
a 1t Pays to Advertise. by Chautauqua
n players under the direction of Elizabeth
b. Oliver. This is a ripping, rattling
(. comedy.
= Friday. Sept. Morning. Junior
y Chautauqua. Afternoon. Junior Chau-
n tauqua pageant; John Mangels q talk
d ative, juggling jester: concert by Vier-
ras HawailanS, a company which sets
g the standard for Hawaiian music in
e America. Evening, concert by the Ha-
I. wallanS; entertainment, a Cartoon and
e Comedy Review, by Ned Woodman
e whose spicy witticisms are as amusing
y ana interesting as are the pictures he
draws before the audience.