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Show Chautauqua to Be In Milford This Year; The program announced by the El lisou-Wliite s.-rvke fur the fall Chau-j tuu-.ua festival, which will be given, here September Uu; October 1, 2, 3, 4, shows careful selection and good, variety. It provides for good music,! various high grade novelties in thej entertainment line, a corking goou ' play and a lectrue that has not a dry sentence or moment in it. j "Cappy Ricks" is the play around which interest will center. No hap ' pier selection could have been made.j it is felt, as the unfailing succes.s oi this Peter B. Kyne story, dramatized j by that eminent playright Edward Rose, has been of phenomenal reeora J There are few who have not read the! stories about the lovable and irasci-j ble old sea dog and the clever young j first male who outwitted him. It isj uproariously funny, the atmospheru is wholesome and' the quaint charae ter types are fascinating and delignt-ful. delignt-ful. As presented by tho Elias Day players it will be right up to tne top notch of high class production. This play will be given ou the third night of tho festival. The Burkhart Birdland Duo id scheduled for opening night and includes in-cludes an attractive onelact play in its program. "His Lordship, the Burglar." Bur-glar." Music, however, is the main jiHraptinn r,f AT i Oliver Rnrkhar. and Miss Marguerite Flatland, who combine their fine talents in splendid splend-id team work. Mr. Burkhart is ono of the best known imitators of birds before the public, combining with this talent a rare ability for making real music with his whistling. Miss Flatland, a concert singer of experience experi-ence for all her extreme youth combines com-bines colorantura and dramatic quali ties in her voice. Her vocal program is said to be ample for an evening's entertainment. The second evening will bring Evans Ev-ans Brown, harpist and wizard ou the accordian. Not only is Mr. BrowL an exceptional musician but also a magician of note. One part of his program is devoted tO' "oriental magic" mag-ic" in which he introduces many of his own creations and, reproduce) magical feats performed by the conjurors con-jurors of India, China and Japan. His program is one of most interesting interest-ing variety. Announcement that the "peptl-mist" "peptl-mist" Sam Grathwell is to be the lecturer lec-turer on this five-night program will be greeted with acclaim by those wnu know him and eagerly anticipated by those who yet have that pleasure In store. The press has referred to Mr. Grathwell as a barrage of pep, a cyclone cy-clone of forcefulness, a human dynamo, dy-namo, a rapid-fire shooter, a Billy Sunday of moral optimism and other equally stirring headlines. He Is scheduled to deliver here his famous lecture on "Tinkers and Thinkers" which contains a lot o fjolts for many wh othink they know how to think. Sam Grathwell is a lecturer who knows ho wto administer energizing medicine without sugar coating and make audiences like it so well they call for more. It will be a real privilege privi-lege to hear him and the management manage-ment guarantee real enjoyment on this night. The Artisan Novelty Trio has1 the distinction of being selected for tho final program on the fifth night. It is an established; custom in giving public programs to choose for the last act or the last program one thad will Leave a happy and satisfied Impression. Im-pression. The Artisan Trio is1 expected expect-ed to more than fulfill this requirement. require-ment. Two of its members, Miss Helen Hel-en Petersen and Mr. Dale Besse, are splendid soloists, the former a high soprano giving opera selections, ballads bal-lads and aid home selections, and the latter a bass. The third member, Mish Bettie Luce, is a violinist of note who also does straight solo work witli charming effect. Added to' those leading lead-ing talents the three artists introduce intro-duce pianiloguos cosumed character readings and splendid numbers and combinations o clarinet and; saxa-phones, saxa-phones, thus giving four instruments in addition to their singing and readings. read-ings. A group of old southern melodies melo-dies will terminate their evening's program of "Music for everyone." |