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Show IGOALOFCROMJS .' Biff Attendance and Lively Inter-' Inter-' est Mark Progress of Five- Day Program. vt. OVERSEAS ORCHESTRA IS MOST POPULAR NUMBER Organization of Women Makes Decided Hit at Interesting and Artistic Evening Performance Some Very Instructive Lectures. itTV In naming the performance of the fib- Overseas Orchestra as ""the mucical IT climax of the week," the Chautauqua Kj programs gave out only the absolute h, truth.. Most any of those who com- ' W posed the appreciative audience in the ' big tent Thursday evening will tell M you -tho same thing. The average person having no musical experience 1 usually finds a program entirely mu- m- sicnl getting infinitely tiresome long $ before its! end. But the eight musical sfe charmers who worked their magic for - us on the tnird Chautauqua evening k so varied their uniformly excellent .? efforts as to hold the attention of their auditors to the very end. It is fr easy to believe the assertion that this E attractive aggregation was a favorite Bfe among tho doughboys on the other at side last year. They made no greater m? hit among the buddies than they have B in Cedar City this week. IF Every session of tho Chautauqua ft "has been well attended. The evening gatherings were of course much lnrg-1fervx lnrg-1fervx cr tnnn tno afternoon sessions. There Sri&h' -lias been a steady increase in attend-ffiliyfw&ance attend-ffiliyfw&ance each day, the averago for the MAMSJwr.week going wen over slx hundred.. f ' "Not only attendance but applause In- :' dicates tho lively appreciation with ?x which the program is being received. The flattering number of recnlls given giv-en most of the entertainers is conclusive con-clusive evidence of the strength of "tho program. " . Tho McGregor singers pleased the f lovers of Scotch character songs and furnished a pleasing background for tho strenuous cartoon-lecture of Mrs. f "Fisk. This really remarkable cxpo- ' nent of machine-gun methods in art has developed to tho "nth" power her ' woman's gift of talking as she works. She is one more human who can do -two things at once and do both well. "Green Stockings", read tho second afternoon by Ruby Pago Ferguson, -was appreciated by lovers of high-class high-class comedy, and tho brilliant per-T per-T formance of Fenwick Newell tho same afternoon and evening furnished a real feast for those who hanker for the exotic passion of foreign opera. The second evening featured a trumpet trum-pet call to citizenship from Joel W. EaBtman. There was a power behind the words of this rugged disciplo of the Immortal "Abe" that was not to be resisted. His sentences were simple sim-ple and lucid and seemed charged with authority. His appeal was to that i part of the human animal that dis- :N tinguishe3 him from tho hog. The h founnation of tho Eastman argument was tho proposition that there is an instinct to plan and build that domi- nates man and makes him unsuited to j any social system other than democ- racy. The American conception of fi democracy was his csnecinl theme, ; and no citizen could sit the lecture I out without feeling an impulse to- ward a fuller and more intelligent dis- ' charge of his duties as an American I citizen. The man and his messago furnished a pleasant surprise to thoso of us who went expecting the usual propaganda that is being passed out theBO days under the name of Americanism. Amer-icanism. j Mi-s. M. Plrio Boyea, whoso lec- I turo came the third afternoon, fur- m nished an intimato and vivid picture Wk of the great war such as few others H have been capable of creating. Her H twnn stories of tho boys who & Hj the thing across were whnt cvet?y H American should hear and tako to H heart. Tho boys do not tell what K they did because they were tho ones H who did it. It remains for tho nurses H to give us tho facts. Mrs. Beyca is H, doing n great work in helping us to I see the ox-service man and his vital Bf needs. Wo nro all too forgetful of H thoso who oflfored their lives for our Ml sakes. HI The big show has been a financiul success, too. Thero is now no question VJ that Cedar City qualifies for tho honor jw of being a "Chautauqua town." Tho Kjj work istpast,. the. experimental stage H now. Tho circuit can now bo looked jg upon as a regular part of our com- 1 munity life. |