The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-11-16
After Lapse of Several
Years Course Is To Be
Resumed
OPENING NUMBER
NEXT TUESDAY
Season Tickets To Be Sold
BY Pupils of High School
and Upper Grades

After a layoff of several years
Kennewick is to have a community
Lyceum course. Talent for the
course, with the exception of one
number, is to be furnished by the
Ellison White Lyceum bureau.
The course opens next Tuesday
evsning November 81 with Victor
d. Hoppe who will give the play,
"The Return of Peter Grimm"
Kennewick people will recall with
pleasure the fine entertainments
given here by the late j. Werner
Hoppe, Of the Cheney Normal.
Victor is brother of j. Werner
and is instructor in speech and
drama at the Bellingham Normal.
he has a statewide reputation as
q community entertainer. In his
play recitals he gives the entire
play taking the part. Of each char
acter. He says he operates on
the theory that every community
possesses more brains and more
capacity for good amusement than
can be satisfied by sensational
folk songs Of the Southland.
The first Of the Ellison-White
will be the evening Of
%. 1t is the Cardin-
Lieurance Orchestra and String
Quartet. This company was or
ganized and specially coached by
Thurlow Lieurance,, well known
Of Indian songs. OF par
ticular interest too is the fact that
the organization is headed by
Frederick Cardin and William
Reddie, unquestionably two Of the
finest artists of the Indian race.
Mr.. Cardin is the violin soloist and
leader and Mr.. Reddie is the cello
soloist.
The third number, the Garner
jubilee company, does not come
until january 19. These talented
musicians have appeared in Ken
newick before. They render with
exquisite beauty the old plantation
favorites, the weird, yet beauti-
ful negro spirituals and the old
film stars and jazz orchestras.
The company which Mr.. Garner
has gathered are finished artists
every one graduate of accredited
musical college or university. For
the past five years, Prof. Garner
has been pipe organist in the Chi
cago Olivet Baptist church, said to
be the largest Protestant church
in the world, with 10000 members.
He has had access to the finest
artists in America. In the present
company he has realized his ideal,
company Of refined, high-class
colored American artists that de-
monstrate the artistic possibilities
Of his people and reflect credit
upon his race.
Davis, the man who mystifies, is
scheduled for February II. He Is.
said to be the exception that is
&nproving the rule that there is
nothing new in magic. There is
claimed to be more new stuff on
his program than the usual whole
evening given by the ordinary ma
gician. He is as humorous as he
is clever and his >program is full
Of laughs and thrills.
Tom Skeyhill, the Australian
soldier. poet, will close the course
March 10. Skeyhill has filled to
cverflowing the largest and best
ausitoriuxn in America and was
the wonder speaker Of the war
period. Waen he came to this
country to speak in behalf Of the
Liberty loans he was totally blind
e : results Of wounds received in
sne Dardanelles campaign but his
nsnt was restored by Washington
specialist.
Two years ago last December ne
vent to Russia to find out for his
on satisfaction the truth Of the
russia situation. He was unable
~ get passport and stole across
=. border. He visited the main
saes Of Russia, studied the peas-'
cut and working class, interview