The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-30

We must all feel our personal re-
sponsibility for the feelings, needs and
demands of our brother neighbors,
said Rev. Charles w Whitman at the
Bible hour Wednesday at the chau-
tauqua.
"Our modern life is so compact that
we cannot live apart from ourselves
even should we desire to do So" said
Rev. Whitman. THE complexity of
machinery in industry and the COM
pick social structure of our present
day are such that we must live togeth
er and cooperate with each other"
Ward Waters and his company of
novelty entertainers produced for the
chautauqua audience Wednesday after
noon a comedy sketch entitled, The
Regeneration of Skinner" which pro-
duced much entertainment. The sketch
is built around man named Skinner,
who tried his hand at making a batch
of home brew.
His wife, disguised at his debauch-
cry and drunkenness, determined to
put stop to it, and, with the assist
ance of the maid, managed to cure him
of the home-brew habit by making him
think himself dead. This, needless to
say, brought about the regeneration.
Ward Waters, who heads the COM
panS. is a character actor and make
up artist His wife. Mrs. Fern Waters,
is a child impersonator and an actress,
and Miss Nora Jackson, the other
member of the company, is a soprano,
accompanist and actress.
| Give Novelty Numbers
Besides the brief sketch, the COM
pany rendered some entertaining nov
city numbers which included whistling
duets by Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Waters,
soprano solos by Miss Jackson and yo-
cal duets by Mrs. Waters and Miss
Jackson
The entire life of Sir James Barrie
has been moulded by his mother, said
Mrs Katherine oliver Mccoy in her
lecture on the great Scotch author and
dramatist, Wednesday afternoon, at the
chautauqua. She brought this out
very clearly when she quoted from
Mr. Barrie himself, when you looked
into my mothers eyes, you knew as
if he had told you why God sent her
into the world. 1t was to open the
minds of all who looked to beautiful
thoughts, and this is the beginning and
the end of literature.
Scotland has produced four literary
genisuses, each of whom had the pc.
culiar power of graphing to his soul
with hoops of steel the hearts of the
reading public" said Mrs Mccoy in
speaking of Scotland's authors. Shs
: dwelt for a moment on the life and
works of Robert Burns, the plowman
Sir Walter Scott, the baronet; ana
: Robert Louis Stevenson. The remain
der of her talk was devoted to an in
= depreciation of the works, character
and personality of Sir James Barrie
Has Double Career.
"Sir James Barrie has a double ca
reer in that he is the author of boil
novels and dramas" said Mrs. Mccoy
She interpreted some of the works o.
Barrie as novelist and will speal
later on his work as a dramatist. She
dwelt particularly on the principa
5 scenes in "The Little Minister" 'ThC
Window in Thrums," Margaret Ogil
Wy" and THE Little White Bird.
Mrs. McCoy's lecture was exception
ally interesting and entertaining from
l the fact that she has an intimate &C
: quaintance with Sir James Barrie. g
r interpreted The Little Minister TO
= Mr. Barrie when I visited him at hi
home" said Mrs. Mccoy He was en-
gagged at that time in the dramatic in
r depreciation of the same story an
stated that up to the time of my pre-
I senation he had not realized that oil
! Mamie was such an interesting char
5 aracter even though he had created
her"
Does Not Initiate
Barrie does not initiate said Mrs
4 Mccoy. Whatever he does is entire
? ly original and that is the secret of hi
2 creative power as a genius. Barrie j
r the only one who can do it the Barri
!. way"
Mrs. MscCoy has spent many sun