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Show CHAUTAUQUA PATRONS GIVEN MUSICAL TREAT Program for this evening and Wed nesday : Tuesday evening Popular concert Ruthven MacDonald of Toronto, Can ada; famous production. The Story Beautiful," Father Patrick J. Mac-Corn' Mac-Corn' An evening of art, music, oratory. Wednesday. Morning Junior Chautauqua; morning lecture. "Mxlern Literary Forms " Mrs. Delia Crowder Miller. Afternoon Prelude, Gullotta Trio, lecture. "Ben Hur," Mrs. Delia Crowder Crow-der Miller; hints on tho household, Miss Claire Parrish. Evening (".rand concert, Gullotta Trio; popular lecture, "The Man Worth While," Roland A. Nichols. Record Crowd at Concert. A mixed quartet of splendid vocalists, vocal-ists, known to Chautauquans as the II Trovatoro Grand Opera singers and the Clrlcillo band drew a crowd to the Ogden Chautauqua hill last night that almost filled the big tent and sent its members away wishing for more of the music The crowd numbered upward ot 1,200 persons, the largest attendance thus far noted, evidencing that the merit of the Chautauqua attractions Is being sent further out among the people of the city each day by the patrons who hae thus far taken an active interest in the 1915 assembly. A double musical program was presented pre-sented last night, the singers giving with the full band accompaniment a condensed version of the grand opera "II Trovatore" and the band giving a concert of mainly classic music. In presenting the opera, which was given In costume with special stase settings, an unusually big effort is attempted, but by sheer vocal power and interpretative inter-pretative ability the quartet carried it to a complete Buccess. In addition to frequent outbursts of applause, their work was received with a half dozen curtain calls at Its dose Though all of the singers possess voices of real grand opera timber, the tenor, Frank Bucofusco and the contralto, MisB M Kdeus. displayed a quality of tone and breadth of range the equal of which has rarely been heard hnre. The baritone role was well handled by Guistlno Zara and Miss A Haeseier, the soprano, also did commendable work. The company Is traveling under the management of M. J. Jovine and the svnopsls of the opera was read last night by Captain Robert D Thompson, Thomp-son, auditor of the Ellison-White Chautauqua system, who is also well known as a travelogue lecturer. The ( iricillo band under the direction direc-tion of its gifted leader, gave fine support sup-port to the ' II Trovatore" singers and, after the conclusion of the opera, presented Its special concert program This included the "Sextette from Lucia Lu-cia di Lammermoor," a selection from the opera "Carmen." the overture from "William Tell" and several lighter numbers, among them being the late song " I Ixivc You California.'' The "Carmen" and "William Tell" numbers, calling for the best work-that work-that an Instrumentalist can give to make them pleasing, were splendidly played, proving the band a fine organization or-ganization and Clrlcillo a splendid director. di-rector. All of the selections were worthily applauded and an uulooked for but interesting in-teresting feature of the band concert was the presentation of Master Pas-quale Pas-quale Clrlcillo, the six-year-old son of the band director, as a French horn soloist. The youngster played "The Chautauqua Girl." a new march composed com-posed by Clrlcillo. with precocious skill and as an encore played "America," "Amer-ica," Mis Claire Parrish, whose lectures during the week have been of much value to the members of the local Women's Chautauqua association, kept a large crowd of ladles and a number of gentlemen interested for an hour yesterday afternoon with her talk on "The Family Budget of Expeuso Account " This proved one of the most Important of the course and the lecturer was congratulated by many of her hearers after the meeting. meet-ing. Children Entertained TTiUrnU1S--Mlas, Van Hook enter- tained more than a hundred children at the junior Chautauqua session with injr Interesting Indian tais and also ni t lined their interested participation in a number of excellent games. Tomorrow morning Miss Van Hook, who by her pleasing work has deeply deep-ly Ingratiated herself Into the fas or Of the children of the Chautauqua, Is to take the "Utahwa" Indian tribe for a hike to Glenwood park and they will spend several hours there. The mornlna: session of the Worn en's Chautauqua followed the children's chil-dren's hour and the ladles who were i terday entirely won over by the interesting talks and artistic readings of Mrs. Delia Crowder Miller wefO again in attendance and brought a number of others with them Mrs. Miller, whin is known as the "morning "morn-ing lecturer" of the Chautauqua, has been with the Fllisou-Whlte system since its organization three ears ago and thin year has won through the merit of her work a place as one of Its most Important attraction Her lectures, or lecture-recitals as they could better be termed, are hours of unalloyed enjoyment to her hearers, as she is a master of dramatic dra-matic art in all its phases. Her programs pro-grams too are admirably chosen to bring out all her art and the talks given In connection with the readings are of much educational value to the student or lover of the drama. Lecture on Bible. This morning Mrs Miller took 18 her suhjert "The Bible and Literature Litera-ture Of her lecture it an be said that the literary value of the Bible has never been brought more potent 1 before a local audience. She first gave a brief review of the sacred book, explaining that it contained within its pages the epic, drama, monologue mon-ologue lvric, descriptive, narrative and didactic forms of literature and in a degree of perfection not reached by anv author that has lived since the age in which it was written. She explained in which book cf the Bible each form of literature mentioned mention-ed could be found and then, in a manner man-ner that held her audience Intensely ;ittcntle she read from memory the "Book of Ruth, ' "Paul Before Agnp-pa" Agnp-pa" and several other Bible selections The attention she received probably more than the applause she was given giv-en at the conclusion of her lecture-recital lecture-recital was a sincere compliment to her ability as a lecturer. |