Chautauqua

              1917
CHAUTAUQUA

Cass Lake, Minn.
August 3 to 7

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INFORMATION and RULES
SEASON TICKETS are non-transferable except within the owner's family.  The name of some member of the family must be written in ink upon every season ticket.  In case a signed ticket is lost the management uses all possible means for its recovery and usually succeeds.

IN CASE YOU FORGET TO BRING YOUR TICKET, go to the cashier, buy a single admission ticket for that session and ask for a receipt for the price paid; bring your season ticket and receipt to the cashier at the next session, and, if the coupon is still attached, the cashier will refund the money paid for the signed ticket.  The gatekeeper cannot admit you except by ticket.

CHILDREN'S TICKETS ADMIT children aged 6 to 14 years inclusive.  Only child's tickets admit to the Play Festivals.

THE FIRST TWO ROWS OF SEATS nearest the platform are reserved, free of extra cost, for the old people and those whose hearing is impaired.  The place for children at these sessions is with their parents and not congregated in groups on the front seats.

SEASON TICKETS bought at the Chautauqua gate will be fifty cents higher priced than those on sale in advance by local boosters.  You may easily save that fifty cents by procuring your tickets now.

CULTIVATE THE HABIT of being on time.  If you can be comfortably seated before the first number on the program is given you receive all the more enjoyment.

IT IS A WONDERFUL PROGRAM, crammed full of the best things available.  Come the first day and we will vouch for your coming often.

BEAR IN MIND THE FACT that we are offering these splendid attractions at picture show prices.

YOU OWE IT TO YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS to give them a Chautauqua education.

YOU OWE IT TO YOUR WIFE to give her a Chautauqua vacation from the routine of housework.

You OWE IT TO YOURSELF to get the recreation, the entertainment, the inspiration, the broadened horizon which comes from attending a VAWTER CHAUTAUQUA.

WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT if you will attend the majority of the programs you too will be a CHAUTAUQUA BOOSTER.

SEASON TICKETS PURCHASED IN ADVANCE ARE FIFTY CENTS LESS.  GET THEM OF THE LOCAL BOOSTERS.



WHY A CHAUTAUQUA?
Gentlemen, we congratulate you.

You have made possible the Chautauqua in your community.

Without you and your kind there would be no Chautauqua anywhere.  You believe that the Chautauqua, with its inspiring music, strong speakers and wholesome entertainment, is worth while.  You have pledged your active co-operation to make the Chautauqua a success and you have backed that pledge with a financial guarantee.

Is it worth while?

You have taken valuable time to boost this Chautauqua because you know its value to the community.  You have met fellows who have laughed at you and said: Why don't the Chautauqua come in and take its chances the same as the street carnival people?

It is you who take the chance when you allow the wandering shows to come to your town.  Cheap entertainment is like cheap soil, it won't grow much but weeds.

There is absolutely nothing to be heard or seen at the Chautauqua which cannot be heard or seen by your ten-year-old daughter.  Would you care to have her see the things inside the tent of the street carnival show?

You are taking no chance when you invite the Chautauqua into your town.  It is clean, wholesome and inspiring.  To maintain such programs and to retain the ideals of the Chautauqua it is absolutely necessary that the Chautauqua system have the co-operation of the local committee.

Don't take the knockers too seriously.  If you will take a second look at them you will recall that they have never done anything worth while for the town.  You are lined up with the best men and women of nearly 5,000 communities.

Remember, too, that the most of the people in this town cannot take a trip to the city when they want to see a great play or hear one of the country's great men.  Their entertainment must be obtained here IN THIS TOWN.  You are making possible the best week in the year.  You are making it possible for your friends and neighbors to hear great addresses and splendid music at picture show prices.

Through your efforts people of all creeds and sects will meet under one tent; that means religious tolerance.  You will see banker and laborer, merchant and farmer, wash woman, ministers' wives and society ladies in the same section; that means democracy and understanding and the beginning of a new community spirit.

You will see audiences of your neighbors sent away with a smile or a tear, with more humane sentiments, with greater hope for humanity and with a larger outlook.  You will realize then that some values cannot be measured in terms of dollars.

How about the young people? They want entertainment.  They are going to get entertainment.  If they don't get the good they will get the trashy.  Here in Iowa farmers find that they can't fatten cattle on soft corn.  To finish them they must ship in hard corn.  It costs money, too.  BUT IT PAYS.

YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WORTH MORE THAN CATTLE, but they will never reach their highest possibilities if they are fed with soft, mushy entertainments.  Yes, the Chautauqua costs a little more in personal effort than the wandering show, but if one boy or girl in this community gets the vision of a bigger life you will agree with us that your efforts have been justified.

Again, gentlemen, we congratulate you.




Judge Manford Schoonover   The Marylands

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A Kansas Orator
The fact that Judge Manford Schoonover, the eminent Kansas juror, is to lecture on the opening evening of Chautauqua assures a splendid beginning for the five big days.

Judge Schoonover lectured on the Redpath-Vawter circuit during the season of 1915 and his address was one of the features of that splendid program.  The story of Judge Schoonover's life is a familiar one in that it is similar to that of many other Americans of the Middle West.  It is a story of one who has fought his way from poverty and obscurity to a position of honor and trust in the councils of his people.

The rugged strength and virility of Judge Schoonover add to his platform personality and enables him to drive home his arguments with conviction.




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The Joy Artists
Chautauqua will open in a riot of joy.

Mirthful melodies, sung by four clever and versatile musical maids, will mark the opening program as one of the pleasing features of Chautauqua.

Banjo solos and accompaniments, played by Charles Frink, one of the platform's real artists on this instrument, adds variety to the program and brings joy to the hearts of the listeners as their feet keep time to the twanging of the banjo strings.

Program building, in this age of critics, has become a real art and the men who build the Vawter programs realize the necessity of a good impression on the opening day if the balance of the week is to be successful.

The selection of the Marylands for the opening day assures Chautauqua of a splendid beginning and will bring all of you back in the evening with a taste for more.

Remember, these are the joy people of the week.

They will cast a ray of real sunshine over the entire week.

The Marylands combine in themselves physical beauty, charming manners, personality and real brains.  These qualities, added to splendid musical training, has developed in each one that indefinable native art which wins the popular applause and satisfies the demands of the most exacting.

Their ensemble work is as perfect as months of careful training under competent coaches can make it.  Chosen because of their excellent voices and their adaptability, they have attained a splendid unity of expression.

This is primarily a singing company.  Their singing, however, is not going to be too high-browed for the folks.  They are real artists but they are not going to get up into the clouds, away from the understanding of Mr. and Mrs. Common People.  Their musical appeal is to plain, intelligent human beings who want music to mean something worthy of human intelligence.


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Clarence Locke Miller   The Hawaiian Quintette

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Clarence Locke Miller
is an enthusiast.  Through the imagination he appeals to both the intellect and the heart.

In these restless times when so much entertainment is destructive instead of constructive; trashy instead of worth while, it is refreshing to be able to present to Chautauqua people a magnetic young thinker with the Harvard finish and the stirring energy that make Clarence Locke Miller's platform theme and appeal distinctive.

Mr. Miller, in his popularization of Leo Tolstoy, the mental giant of Russia, entertains as well as instructs.

He presents philosophic truths in popular form.

He compels thinking in terms of world problems.




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HAWAIIAN music has started the whole world whistling and humming the haunting, lilting strains of the tropic islands and has sounded the most bewitching note in the history of instrumental music.

A pathetic, lovable, melancholy people, the Hawaiians have woven into their music the story of their race, their joys and sorrows, their sufferings and triumphs, their loves and hates, their innermost thoughts and life.

Their music expresses the splendid glory of their mountains, the mighty upheavals of their volcanos, the murmuring of the waves on the beaches, the yearnings of a people struggling toward national happiness and their sorrowing over their tragedies.

Among the foremost interpreters of this unique music of the Pacific Islands are the members of this company.  These native artists have been secured for our Chautauqua program through a special representative sent to the islands this past winter, and a delightful concert is assured.

The key to the irresistible whispering effect of Hawaiian music is found in the steel method of guitar playing, accompanied by the thready thrum-thrum of ukelele and taropatch.  This peculiar haunting note of the steel method of guitar playing is the most distinctive innovation in musical history, rivalling as it does the utmost possibilities of the human voice.

This music of the Hawaiians is not a call to arms.  It is rather a lulling harmony with a sort of a wistful pathos as the dominant note.



Cyclone Davis   The University Players

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A Texas Patriarch
Congressman J. H. (Cyclone) Davis of Texas is one of the most unique and interesting characters that the South has ever sent to Washington.  He has always been a fighter for the principles of democracy and his fiery eloquence in debate has gained for him the title of Cyclone.

He is a wonder in the use of words, a library in the display of knowledge.

He is not only a word painter but a prodigy in the application of proverbs, parables and aphorisms.

He puts into his speech a fund of humor, a fountain of eloquence, and never fails to arouse and enthuse an audience.

He has a remarkable personality, is six feet four in height, patriarchial in appearance.




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It Pays to Advertise the delightful comedy which is to be presented by the University Players, is one of the most successful comedy dramas of a generation.

In presenting this company of players in a modern comedy the Vawter System has again assumed the role of the pioneer.  Short dramatic sketches, one act farces and Shakesperian drama have been offered from the Vawter platform in other years but never before has an entire evening been devoted to modern drama.

It Pays To Advertise is a comedy so well balanced in basic human values that it cheers the heart and diverts the mind at the same operation.  The authors, Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett, have gained a high place among the successful playwrights of their time.

The University Players will uphold the ideals of the Chautauqua, both on and off the platform.  They have been selected and coached for this particular production.

It Pays To Advertise is absolutely clean and wholesome and this fact, combined with the rich Americanism of its humor, the rapid-fire idioms contained in the dialogue and the many clever situations effected, marked its New York production as the most successful comedy in years.

The story is told with a contagious verve and vigor and the dialogue is written with a real feeling for that particular type of humor that has been recognized as purely American since the days of Ben Franklin.

The laughs?

It Pays To Advertise runs over with laughs.

Before the company has been before you two minutes the play will reach out after you and tap you genially on the back, and you will be aware of a warm, comfortable feeling that will cause you to settle back contentedly, with complete trust that it is going to keep you jovial and interested the whole evening.

It makes fun of advertising but is one of the best ads the advertising man can have.

An ad man can take a prospective customer to see the play and it will furnish laughter-coated statistics enough to land the contract between the first two acts.

The central character is soaked in the gospel of advertising.  He claims that the reason we eat hen's eggs instead of duck's eggs is because the hen advertises her product.

The central idea of It Pays To Advertise is an old one.  It is the familiar story of the rich father and the idle son.  The father makes a wager with his stenographer that she cannot induce the son to go to work.  She succeeds in getting him in terested in a business proposition.  He forms a partnership with a fellow who believes with all of his heart and soul and amazing nerve that it pays to advertise.

The father is a soap manufacturer and the young fellows enter the same field, flooding the territory with ads of their soap.  The ad campaign was a tremendous success but the young enthusiasts forgot to make soap.  The public demands the new soap and the youngsters force the soap trust to buy them out at an enormous price.

The refreshingly clean tone and genial humanity of It Pays To Advertise will mark it as one of the big features of the entire program.




The Cathedral Choir   Morton H.Pemberton

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A Reuben In Rome
Missouri has produced another great humorist.

The state which gave the world a Mark Twain now sends us a Morton H. Pemberton.

From the land of the houn'dawg and the Ben Davis apple comes a real wit, one who has produced one of the few great humorous platform classics of the decade.

Mort Pemberton is already affectionately called our second Mark Twain by the Missouri people who knew and loved the creator of the immortal Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

A Missouri Farmer in Rome, the humorous lecture that has established Pemberton among the elect, reminds one of Innocents Abroad.

Pemberton is not a punster; not a jokesmith.  He does not rely upon the telling of funny stories written by others to make himself solid with his audience.  His humor is used as the vehicle for strong truths and subtle philosophies which remain as substantial contributions.




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A Delightful Program
There is no class of music more beautiful, more helpful, more inspiring, more uplifting and contributed to more bountifully by the world's master composers than that classed as sacred music.

Some people do not care for the great operatic numbers.  Others, more highly trained musically, scorn those selections which fall within the class of popular music.  But who is there who does not feel all of his higher impulses quickened when he hears a company of superb singers ring out the majestic strains of that stately old hymn of faith A Mighty Fortress Is Our God?

The Cathedral Choir fills an important part on the Chautauqua program.  Other companies will present programs of popular music.  Artists have been engaged who will offer operatic selections and from the Islands of the Pacific has been brought a group of Hawaiians to sing for us the haunting melodies of their land of flowers and sunshine.

The Cathedral Choir is presented by the Vawter System, not only as a company of artists to entertain, but as a suggestion of the choir ideal; such an organization as might appropriately adorn any sacred portal.

Young people should hear this program. The reason for the spread of the trashy, sickening, nauseating songs which are sung throughout the country, is found in the fact that young people too often do not have the opportunity to hear the truly great songs.

Songs which make light of the sacredness of the home, which glorify the divorcee and make light of marital unfaithfulness cannot fail to have their effect on our national morality.




Geo. C.Aydelott   The Musical Guardsmen


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The Man For Today
Be sure that your boy hears this lecture by George C. Aydelott.  It will give him a vision of opportunities of which he has never dreamed.

Aydelott says: I would rather meet one of my boys, one of the young fellows whose life I have touched out in the mighty struggle of life—and have him take me by the hand and say, 'I met you back in the beginning of my career and I am the man I am today because of that'—I would rather have one of the fellows tell me that than to have the wealth of Rockefeller.

Aydelott not only has a subject; he has an object.

His The Man For Today is inspirational, but it contains a world of real thought and sound philosophic truth.

It is a beautiful blending of humor and pathos.  Tears and laughter follow each other in rapid succession.




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Where is the man, extreme pacifist though he be, whose heart throbs do not quicken with patriotic fervor as the smartly-costumed military band sweeps down the street to the air of The Star Spangled Banner?

You are going to experience that very sensation if you are in your seat by the time the Musical Guardsmen, dressed in their natty blue and white military uniforms, march onto the stage on the last evening of Chautauqua.

We predict that for all-around satisfaction the Musical Guardsmen will prove to be the most popular musical company you have ever had in your community.

This company is composed of six young men—a singing band—each one a vocalist of ability and capable of playing band and orchestral instruments in an artistic manner.  They have just completed a season on the Redpath-Vawter lyceum programs and have registered a real hit wherever they have appeared.

There has been a constant demand from the Chautauqua towns for a musical attraction that could furnish the pep and dash to please the popular audience and the casual concertgoer, and yet artistic enough to win the approval of the most critical.

This combination of qualities is furnished in the versatile Musical Guardsmen.  There is not a trashy number on the program.  The young men do not stoop to please those who seek amusement at the price of artistic values.  They will present a program of popular classics, arranged for band, orchestra, male quartet and chorus.  A band of instrumental artists.  A glee club of trained voices.

The Guardsmen do not hesitate to play or sing a good number for fear that it may have been heard in the community before and you need not be surprised to hear a few such numbers as My Old Kentucky Home, In the Gloaming or any of the old time classics that will live forever in the hearts of all real Americans.


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CO-OPERATION
Co-operation is the keynote of social progress.

The message of the possibilities of community service is the prophetic voice of today.

We are learning the importance of organized effort.

A drop of water by itself seems impotent, but drops of water combined in a Niagara generate electrical power to lighten the burdens of a nation.  Snow flakes seem trifling things in world making, but associated together in mighty glaciers, they gouge out valleys and crush mountains.

Mr. Committeeman and people of this community, we can make your Chautauqua a success or failure by co-operation or the lack of it.  The Chautauqua movement is a co-operative movement.  Talent must co-operate with bureau, bureau with local committee and local committee with the buyers of the season tickets.  Failure on the part of any one of these units will result in the failure of your Chautauqua.

The talent is co-operating in splendid manner with the bureau; the bureau and the local committee are working together in fine manner, success is assured if the people of the community give proper support to the local committee by buying their season tickets at once.

The bureau is conducting your Chautauqua under the auspices of the local committee.  The bureau must guarantee salaries to talent and workers, advertising, freight, and other bills.  The local committee, in turn, guarantees the bureau that the season ticket sale will cover a portion of this expense.  If you fail to respond to the ticket campaign the local committeemen must go into their pockets to make up the deficit.

Below is printed the names of the people who are serving on the local committee.  These people take time to sell tickets, boost the Chautauqua and stand ready to pay their good money in case you people of the community fail to give them proper support.

Why do they do this?  There is no possibility of financial returns for them as individuals.

They believe in the Chautauqua.  They believe that it is worth while that their boys and girls and YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS hear clean, pure entertainments.  They know that the Chautauqua is clean and wholesome.  They want their boys and girls to come in contact with the great personalities who will be here on the Chautauqua program.  They want their children to get the inspiration of the splendid music.

They are doing all of this because they have faith in the community.  Give them your support.  They deserve it.  Buy your season tickets NOW.  All tickets bought after the opening of Chautauqua will cost you fifty cents more.


L. M. Lange
Geo. Birtch
Mrs. Mark L. Burns
E. N. Dumphy
A. F. Ittner
R. G. Utley
M. N. Koll
J. T. Gardner
Ray R. Phelps
E. R. Lindstrom
Henry D. Kenfield
Robt. W. Henry
G. E. Marshall
Frank L. Gorenflo
A. E. Cummings
E. J. Fulton
Ed. E. Olson
I. C. Curtis
H. N. Harding
Frank Suitor
C. M. Taylor
L. H. Burns, Jr.
J. E. Lundrigan
F. C. McCumber
C. N. Christinson
R. Bettner
L. E. Nolan
H. C. Sempf
W. N. O'Neil
Maurice Olson
E. F. Miskella
J. D. Caldwell
Carl Strecker
Tom Church
Chas. Bradbury
E. Toombs
Roy Johnson
Al. J. Hole
Mrs. C. M. Taylor
H. H. Richmond
Wm. H. Smith
Z. E. House
N. E. Jondahl
D. V. Wardner
T. A. King




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Great doings for the Kiddies

The Pageant of the Year and Tournament by Knights and Peasants

Processional
The Queen of the Pageant and her attendants: Heralds, Flower Girls, Pages, Maid of Honor, Ladies in waiting, Outriders, Sun, Sunbeams, Clouds, Bluebirds, Spring Buds, Summer Roses, Wind, Autumn Leaves, Winter Snows, and Peasants.



Story of the Pageant
The Queen and her attendants wending their way through the groves find a secluded spot for their reveal.

With a joyous shout the Queen is crowned and the subjects seat themselves in happy groups at the foot of the throne to await the coming of the seasons.

Slowly the Sun appears, ushered in by her faithful Sunbeams, who bow to receive from her the power to awaken the sleeping buds of the earth.  Hastening away they carry their message of warmth and cheer.  Unable to stir the buds alone they call to the Bluebirds, who flutter in whispering the glad tidings that it is time for them to throw off their brown capes and join in the frolic.  Their pleadings are heard, and slowly the spring fairies, in soft green dresses, unfold and yield to the call.

Then come the Clouds, with soft reflected tints, floating on the spring air reminding us of Summer's near approach.

In due time Summer, embodied in pink rose fairies, appears and advances with dainty steps, bowing in homage before the Queen.  In the fullness of their bloom, with a shudder, they feel the winds of Autumn and know that even they must fade; so with farewell kisses wafted to the Queen, they slip away as the wind blows a fluttering and whirling band of brown and golden leaves upon the scene.

Urged on by the wind they dance until exhausted and sink to the earth while the wind dies down and Winter softly and silently covers them with the first blanket of snow.

A blast from the Herald's trumpet changes the scene.  The Queen calls for her subjects to prepare for a tournament between the Knights and the Peasants.  A happy band rush in with eager shouts to take their places in the contests.  Proud are they to receive the Decoration from their Queen.

Thus with a shout of Long live the Queen, the festivities of the day are ended.

Joyously they came, joyously they go.  Greetings and Farewell.






THE PROGRAM DAY BY DAY
CASS LAKE, MINN., AUG. 3-7


CLARENCE BLUME—Superintendent
RUTH PAINE—Supervisor

Programs Begin Promptly.  Be on Time



FRIDAY


2:30 P. M.
Opening Exercises and Important Announcements





Concert

Vocal and Instrumental




THE MARYLANDS




A program offering a delightful blending of classic and semi-popular numbers






Admission 35 cents



4:00 P. M.
Children of the Junior Chautauqua meet with the Play Supervisor to choose a Queen of the Pageant and to hear about the week's fun




7:30 P. M.
Prelude Concert

Music and Mirth




THE MARYLANDS



8:00 P. M.
Address

Unseen Forces




JUDGE MANFORD SCHOONOVER




A powerful address by a strong man.  A good beginning for the week






Admission 50 cents






SATURDAY


9:00 A. M.
Choosing of characters for the various groups in the pageant; formation and dramatization of the procession




2:30 P. M.
Concert

Novel and Artistic




THE HAWAIIANS



3:00 P. M.
Lecture
A Prophet of the New Time





CLARENCE LOCKE MILLER




Eloquent platformist has built dramatic address around life and teachings of Tolstoy






Admission 35 cents



7:30 P. M.
Grand Concert

Music of Hawaii



Quintet of native Islanders present program of the haunting, fascinating airs of Hawaii






Admission 50 cents






SUNDAY


2:30 P. M.
Address

Problems of War and Prospects of Permanent Peace




HON. J. H. CYCLONE DAVIS




Texas Congressman discusses problem of vital importance to our national life






Admission 50 cents



4:00 P. M.
Vespers: A short service at which everyone is urged to be present




7:30 P. M.
Mary Magdalene

A beautiful story told by




THE UNIVERSITY PLAYERS




This is a great and inspirational program.  Do not fail to hear it.






Admission 50 cents






MONDAY


9:00 A. M.
Practice for the pageant by all of the various groups.  Contests for the boys




2:30 P. M.
Concert

Sacred and Secular




THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR



3:00 P. M.
Humorous Lecture

Reuben in Rome




M. H. PEMBERTON




A Missouri farmer tells of his experiences in Europe






Admission 35 cents



7:30 P. M.
Concert

Vocal Classics




THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR




An octet of trained singers presenting a program made up of the great arias, choruses and hymns of religious musical literature






Admission 50 cents






TUESDAY


9:00 A. M.
Dress rehearsal for the pageant




2:30 P. M.
Concert

A Singing Band




THE MUSICAL GUARDSMEN



3:00 P. M.
Address

The Man for Today




GEORGE C. AYDELOTT





Admission 35 cents



4:00 P. M.
Pageant of the Year Boys and Girls of the Junior Chautauqua




7:30 P. M.
Concert

Joy Night




THE MUSICAL GUARDSMEN




Merry musical men who sing and play.  Six clever and versatile fellows who will bring Chautauqua to a joyous close






Admission 50 cents




NOTE—Especial care has been taken to make everything for the Sunday programs appropriate for the day and the Management believes that there will be no cause for complaint.