Mrs. Bertha Smith-Titus

              1915
CHAUTAUQUA WEEK 7 JOYOUS DAYS

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Nanticoke, Pa., August 17th to 23d

KETTERLINUS, PHILADA.



DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
THE 1915 PROGRAM is the best we have presented.  Invite your friends to this program with confidence that it will please them.

As I have chosen the talent each year, I know exactly what has been given.  For 1915 we have more variety and a series of entertainments and lectures of an even higher quality than in any previous year.

In nineteen years of Chautauqua work, I have become acquainted with Chautauqua lecturers, musicians and entertainers.  I have used this acquaintance in preparing our programs.  Besides this, in preparing the 1915 program I have made two trips to Chicago, two to Boston, and various trips to Washington, New York, Philadelphia and a dozen other places, to hear persons who might add distinction to our program.

After these many trips, and after months of time, and after many conferences with my associates, I have chosen what is offered in the following program, which I pledge Chautauqua patrons is the best we have presented.

As you read these pages you will find names and faces with which you are not familiar.  This does not mean that they are new or untried in Chautauqua work.  My word for it, there are no experiments.

Every Chautauqua patron unconsciously judges a new program, which he has not heard, by the standard of a former program, which he has heard.  Let me ask that you judge every new program on its own merits, or by the standard of others before you heard them.

This is our fourth year.  The fact that we return to practically every town is evidence that our programs please.

I believe that Chautauqua is now so well established in the towns of the circuit, that our patrons have confidence in our announcements.  From what we have offered in the past three years you have reason to believe that we will present a program up to the high Chautauqua standard.  This one is better than we have previously given.

You will help your committee by buying your season tickets early.  Why not go to your committee?  They have hundreds of people to see; you have only one.

Buy your season tickets now.

For our Association, let me express the gratitude we feel for the splendid co-operation of Chautauqua patrons, which makes possible the great work in which we are mutually interested.

Special thanks are due the Committee of Guarantors for the unselfish work they do with such praiseworthy spirit and such efficiency.  When you meet your committee, thank them for the work they are doing for you.  Chautauqua is not possible without their disinterested service.

For your Guarantors and for our Association, I promise you Chautauqua Week will be

Seven Joyous Days.

Paul M. Pearson Director THE CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION Swarthmore, Pa.





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OUR DAILY BREAD

CHAUNCEY J. HAWKINS
Bright Eyes and Wild Hearts of Our Northern Woods, a masterpiece of realism and interpretation, depicting personal experiences.


A CALF MOOSE



INNOCENCE ABROAD



A BULL MOOSE


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Harry Longstreet


RALPH THOMAS


Charles Harding


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THE SOIREE SINGERS
A versatile, artistic company.  Programs of features, including comedy sketch and impersonations.  Several changes of costumes


Lucile Price



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Freda LaViness





SPRINGER, Master of Magic
ASSISTED BY
THE CHAUTAUQUA ENTERTAINERS
Bennett Springer, magician, and the Chautauqua Entertainers will pour mystery into your mind, melody into your ears, and mirth into your heart, their programs being a succession of novelties and surprises.


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Mr. Springer does a number of the tricks that have made other magicians famous, and has originated several of his own.  His entertainment is one that puzzles the quickest eyes and the keenest minds.

The Chautauqua Entertainers is a splendid company, giving a program that is different from anything else you will hear during the week.  Miss Elsie Mae Gordon is an unusually clever reader; Waino Kauppi, the boy cornetist, is a Finn who has played many important engagements both in Europe and America; Miss Judith Hampton Lyndon sings Southern melodies to banjo accompaniment, a decidedly artistic bit of work; and Charles Clark Fuller is the accompanist and piano soloist.  Don't miss these delightful programs.


Elsie Mae Gordon



Waino Kauppi



Charles Clark Fuller



Judith Hampton Lyndon



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Scenes from Springer's Melange of Magic





Miss Maguire

Elmer Crawford Adams Trio

Rollo Hudson



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ONE of the most successful of the artists appearing under this management last season was Elmer Crawford Adams, The Wizard of the Violin.  Adams and his violin seem to be twin souls.  His playing is more than art; it is genius itself, the soul of the man finding expression through the instrument.  His playing is marked by all the fire and dash of one to whom music is a part of his very life.  He is not eccentric in his work, but is the master of fine expression.

His success last season on the Chautauquas amounted to a veritable triumph, so that we are certain of the pleasure that is to be yours when this splendid company comes to your program.

Miss Blanche Maguire, the dramatic soprano, is capable of giving an entire program alone, so extensive is her repertoire.  She sings English, Scotch and Irish ballads with equal effect.  She is a pupil of Stephen Townsend, of Boston, the famous oratorio singer, and has won laurels in concert work in that city as well as elsewhere.

Rollo Hudson, the pianist, has specialized as an accompanist, an art of itself.  His playing will be one of the features of the Adams Trio program.




DR. RUSSELL H. CONWELL
For more than fifty years this man has been lecturing, and today, one of the most highly honored as well as one of the most gifted orators on the platform, he is doing his greatest work.  To sit in one of Dr. Conwell's audiences is a privilege.


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His Acres of Diamonds has been given oftener than any other lecture in the world, and probably is the most famous address that has been offered the American people during the last half century.  All told, this man has delivered about 9000 lectures, these being given in all parts of the world.  For forty years Dr. Conwell has been giving away the proceeds of his lectures, being himself generously provided for by a loyal congregation, as he states it.  Dr. Conwell left his studies at Yale to go to the front as a captain of infantry in 1861, afterwards serving in the artillery, and as a staff officer.  After the war he spent several years traveling, and one year in a trip around the world the lecture was delivered in Japan, China, India, Egypt, Jerusalem, Syria, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and England.

He was the intimate associate of Gough, Beecher, Holmes, Longfellow, Motley, Emerson, Everett, Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Douglass, Grant, Garfield, Burlingame, Sherman and many other of America's great men.  Today he is one of the last of the stars who made the platform brilliant in the days of Gough, Beecher and Chapin.

Where the lecture announced in this program has been given, Dr. Conwell will choose a different subject, unless otherwise requested.





Signor Pasquale Colangelo

Colangelo's Italian Band and Orchestra

Signor Luigi Colangelo



THE FAMOUS CORNET TRIO


THIS superb organization is under the direction of Signor Luigi Colangelo, one of the youngest and ablest band conductors now touring America.

The orchestra section appears in special costumes for several numbers.

Accompanying the band, will be Signorina Ruth Elliotti, soprano, whose voice has been deared extraordinary in range and perfection of tone; Signor Anthony Guarino, tenor; and Signor Pasquale Colangelo, cornet soloist, a brother of the conductor, who is also a cornet soloist.

The Cornet Trio will be a feature of the day's music.

The organization is versatile to a marked degree, and the programs offered will be varied and filled with enjoyable surprises.


Banjo-Mandolin Orchestra



Ruth Elliotti



Signor Anthony Guarino



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Montaville Flowers
One of the most timely lectures before the public today is Rebuilding the Temple, by Montaville Flowers.  It is a comprehensive study of world affairs, an analysis of causes that are believed to be steadily making for a more perfect understanding among nations.  It is a lecture that challenges the best thought of the nation.

Montaville Flowers is one of the ablest lectures on the platform today.  During the

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 many years he has been before the public he has won a distinctive place in the ranks of dramatic orators, and he now comes with one of the great history-making lectures of the age.

He is a speaker of dynamic power, a man of brilliant mind and breadth of vision.




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Mrs. Bertha Smith-Titus
Superintendent
Your Chautauqua is to have as its superintendent a woman who has achieved marked success in the work.  Mrs. Titus is a woman of splendid attainments and extensive experience on the lecture platform.

She will lecture each afternoon upon the general theme of the home and the various factors that enter into its making or marring.  Mrs. Titus is eminently qualified to discuss these subjects, for she is herself a successful home-maker, a mother who has reared a splendid family, and therefore she does not come to you with any fads or untried theories.  This experience enables her to present her messages in a manner that grips the interest and holds it.  She has done a great deal of public work, and is at present a teacher in a Chicago musical college.

Mrs. Titus has marked executive ability, and under her direction the affairs of your Chautauqua will move smoothly and promptly.





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Boston Oratorio Artists
Some of the world's famous short oratorios will be given.  Among many delightful features will be Songs Our Grandmothers Sang, given in costumes of the American period of 1850.  An organization of rare merit.




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THE COMPANY

Edna Swasey Pianist
Frederick Kennedy Tenor
Marguerite Neekamp Soprano
Herbert W. Smith Baritone
Cara Sapin Contralto


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Varkony as Caspar in Der Freischutz


FLORIAN VARKONY


Varkony as Escamillo in Carmen


GABRIEL HINES


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Varkony-Hines Co.
Florian Varkony, bass-baritone of the Royal Opera House, Budapest, Hungary, studied at the Budapest Royal Music Academy, where his father and brother (who is also a famous composer) are both instructors, and finished his musical education in Berlin and Vienna.  His first appearance was in Budapest in the opera Carmen, at which time he achieved a marked success.  Later in Austria, and then for a few years in the Budapest Royal Opera House, he sang his way to high honors.  His repertoire includes selections (in costume) from some of the best-known operas.

Gabriel Hines, a master pianist, won the second prize offered by the directors of the Panama-Pacific Exposition for the best American opera.  There were 482 contestants.  Mr. Hines' The Voyage of the Pilgrims traces the westward course of national development from the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620 to the opening of the San Francisco Exposition.  He is one of the greatest pianists in Chautauqua work.

Miss Elizabeth Oliver is a delightful soprano, with a pleasing voice.  She is also an accomplished reader, and her talents will add much to the enjoyment of the programs presented by this company.


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IVAN! DON'T KILL ME!


THE AVON PLAYERS

THE MAN FROM HOME

THIS IS MR. ST. AUBYN



PIKE JEFRIENDS THE RUSSIAN PRISONER


The Great American Play Presented by the Avon Players





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CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHS
Your Town and People in the Camera's Eye

A distinct feature of Chautauqua week will be chronophotographs of your town and people, taken by Mr. Robert Carels, showing the parade that is to be organized to inaugurate the gala week, and also the crowds in and around the big tent, some general views of the town, and interesting things that happen on the streets on the opening day.

All of the chronophotographs will be shown on the screen on the opening night of Chautauqua, so that those taking part in the opening ceremonies and many of those witnessing the inauguration of the Seven Joyous Days will be able to see themselves as others see them.

At the time the pictures are shown Mr. Carels will give a brief lecture on the wonderful possibilities of the camera.


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Reap the Flax Girls



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THE JUNIOR CHAUTAUQUA
Boys and girls, we have arranged to make Chautauqua Week a jolly time for you.  Do you like to play games, hear the best stories about Indians and animals, fairies and kings?  Do you like to sing songs and play the folk games that Swedish and German boys and girls play in their schools and homes?  Then come to the Junior Chautauqua meeting at the big tent each morning from 9 until 11 o'clock.  Special leaders will come with the Chautauqua to have charge of these happy hours.

And you parents—do you realize that teaching children to play together is teaching them to work together?  Junior Chautauqua means the right kind of recreation for your boys and girls.





PROGRAM

Junior Chautauqua begins at 9:00.  (See page fourteen.)
Afternoon Session begins at 2:30.
Evening Session begins at 7:30.


FIRST DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 25 cents.

SERIES LECTURE — Superintendent.  (See page ten.)
CONCERT — Dunbar Soiree Singers.  (See page four.)

Evening — Admission, 35 cents.

CONCERT — Dunbar Soiree Singers.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE — Bright Eyes and Wild Hearts of our Northern Woods — Chauncey J. Hawkins.  (See page three.)
CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHS.  (See page fourteen.)


SECOND DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 25 cents.

SERIES LECTURE — Superintendent.
MAGIC AND MUSIC — Springer and Chautauqua Entertainers.  (See page five.)

Evening — Admission, 35 cents.

MAGIC AND MUSIC — Springer and Chautauqua Entertainers.
MOTION PICTURES.


THIRD DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 25 cents.

SERIES LECTURE — Superintendent
CONCERT — Crawford Adams Trio.  (See page six.)

Evening — Admission, 35 cents.

CONCERT — Crawford Adams Trio.
LECTURE — Acres of Diamonds — Dr. Russell H. Conwell.  (See page seven.)
MOTION PICTURES.


FOURTH DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 35 cents.

SERIES LECTURE — Superintendent.
CONCERT — Colangelo's Italian Band.  (See pages eight and nine.)

Evening — Admission, 50 cents.

CONCERT — Colangelo's Italian Band.
MOTION PICTURES.


FIFTH DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 25 cents.

SERIES LECTURE — Superintendent.
CONCERT — Boston Oratorio Artists.  (See page eleven.)

Evening — Admission, 35 cents.

CONCERT — Boston Oratorio Artists.
LECTURE—Rebuilding the Temple—Montaville Flowers.  (See page ten.)
MOTION PICTURES.


SIXTH DAY

Afternoon — Admission, 50 cents.

CONCERT — Varkony-Hines Company.  (See page twelve.)
LECTURE — Prison Reform — Maud Ballington Booth.  (See page sixteen.)

Evening — Admission, 50 cents.

CONCERT — Varkony-Hines Company.
The Man from Home, presented by The Avon Players.  (See page thirteen.)


SUNDAY
A special program for Sunday will be arranged and announced.  Offering.




BUY A SEASON TICKET, $2.00
RESERVED SEATS—Recognizing a general demand, a limited number of reserved seat tickets will be sold for the season—$1.00 each.  These may be purchased at the ticket booth on the opening day.

Children: —For the good of all concerned, we will insist this year on the following rule: Children unaccompanied will not be allowed to sit nearer the front than the eighth or ninth row.  Adults unaccompanied by children (except in the case of the aged or infirm) will not be allowed to sit on the front seats.  It may reasonably be expected that one adult will accompany not more than three or four children.

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Maud Ballington Booth
A great Christian missionary into the depths of the dreary prisons of New York, Maud Ballington Booth has come to the Chautauqua platform with a vision of what might be for those in bondage, and she has gone forth to carry that vision to the world.

She realizes that those shut away in the narrow cells of the prisons have neither voice nor influence, and she has become their messenger to plead their cause, to ask the world to give them at least one fair, square chance to prove whether or not they have learned their lesson.  Mrs. Booth believes in punishment; she believes in prisons.  She is not a sentimentalist.  But she also believes that prisons should elevate and reform, not brutalize and degrade.

She has spent years in work among the prisoners, and what she has to tell is the story of her personal experiences and of living facts in the great prison world in which she has been the pioneer in faith and hope for those whom the world had abandoned as hopeless.  Her work in the Volunteer Prison League began nineteen years ago.  More than 20,000 men have come straight to her upon their discharge or parole.

She visits all of the great prisons of the land, taking to the prisoners a message of hope, and from the men who take a definite stand for a new life she forms a League for self-help with which some 78,000 men have associated themselves.

The widespread good accomplished by her can scarcely be estimated.  She has opened homes to receive and temporarily care for those who have no home to which they can go on their release from prison.  And there is another need represented in this great field, and that is among the helpless wives and little children, upon whom the father's imprisonment falls so heavily.  Among the boys in prison she is called The Little Mother.

Her lecture throbs with human sympathy and is eloquent with hope for those who have made mistakes in life.


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