Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-06-24
CHAUTAUQUA PRESENTS
BETTER PROGRAM
Audiences Find Lectures and Music
Much Superior to Last Year. Comus
Players in Nothing But the Truth"
Probably Most Enjoyable Number.

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Probably Most Enjoyable Number.
RETURN NEXT YEAR GUARANTEE
One hundred and one citizen
land corporations of this com
munity thought enough of tn
1921 Chautauqua to sign tn
guaranty for its return to US il
the summer of 1922. When tn
general feeling Of apathy and in
difference in regard to futur
Chautauquas for Rosemary an,
Roanoke Rapids and the fire
quently expressed resolutions O
old Chautauqua Guarantors no
to sign any further Chautauqu;
contracts is taken into consider
alton, this action on the part O.
such a large number of peopl,
speaks eloquently of the improve
ment in this years program ovel
that we had last year.
Probably the best lecture, GER
tainly the most enjoyable, Of
this years Chautauqua was that
delivered on Wednesday evening
by Elliot A. Boyl on the "Advan-
tages of a Handicap. Zil-
boorg's lecture on Russia in
Revolution" was a close second.
1t is a pity that Drew Pearson's
lecture on the Balkans was given
at an afternoon performance be-
fore so small an audience; to all
who are interested in the char
acter, habits, and customs of
those peoples whose racial ami
mosities precipitated the great
World War this lecture would
have been found both enlighten-
ing and entertaining. Mr.. Pear
son knew his subject and he de-
lighted the few who braved the
heat of the tent to hear him.
By far the most popular all
around number on the program
was Nothing but the Truth"
given by the Comus Players {.
well played, laughable, popular
in its appeal, it was we'll worth
the price of an entire season
ticket.
The Bohemian Girl did not get
across. There were two, possi-
bly, three good voices. The
chorus left something to be de-
sired. Had the opera more buff
foonery it would quite probably
have appealed to the consider
able percentage of the audience
to whom music is a sealed book,
but it had to go on its musical
merits and it couldn't quite
make it. The gipsy queen and
the father of the Bohemian Girl
had voices worth while charity
bids US draw the line.
Junior Chautauqua was enjoy,
ed as always we think the
Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids
children did better than any
other children on all the circuits
could possibly have done but
that opinion probably disagrees
with the verdict rendered by the
open-minded parents of all the
other Chautauqua towns!
The White Hussars, who closed
Chautauqua for US, delighted
all that heard them they were
more than brass band; glee club
and minstrel combined. They
not only pleased, they clinched
the guaranty for another Chan-
tauqua year.
To show the appeal which
Chautauqua has for the commun-
i.y we are giving the names of
those who have guaranteed that
Chautauqua shall come back to
us next summer and lose nothing
by so doing. They have not one
cent to gain and to many of them
quite considerable sum to lose
should Chautauqua not come
across: they have faith in Chau-
tauqua but much more faith in
Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids,
they are:
S. F. Patterson, Mrs. S. F.
Patterson, Rosemary Mfg, Co.,
by S. F. p, Roanoke Mills Co.,
by S. F. p, R. L. Cooper, Alice
Hockaday, Lucille Smith, L. N.