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Show CHAUTAUQUA TO OPEN IN Offl ON JUNE 8 ! The attractions to be presented dur-trig dur-trig the coming Chautauqua week in Ogden, June 8 to 14, inclusive, fill all the requirements of a well-balanced war-time program. They offer both entertainment to relieve the tension of the mind and information on war problems at home and abroad. The government has recognized the Chautauqua platform as the means of1 reaching a great majority of the think - i ing people of America and has commissioned com-missioned the bureau to present three' lectures on national issues. Dr. Lincoln L. Wirt, well-known American war correspondent and publicist, pub-licist, will lecture on "Our Armies in Europe." Dr. Wirt was sent to the western front as a member of a government gov-ernment observation party to secure j Information solely for the Chautauqua) tour. Being directly commissioned by the government he received an insight Into actual conditions there such as has been accorded but few men. A demonstrator direct from the United States food administration at Washington will be one of the unusual features of this Chautauqua. Many new ways of conserving food have) been worked out in the government kitchens under the direction of Mr. Hoover and these will be presented during the demonstration. Dr. C. J. Bushnell, special instructor instruc-tor of United States officer's reserve, Is one of the government accredited: lecturers to appear during the week.) His lecture on the second day will deal with our national problems, at home as seen by the bureau of information In Washington, with whom he will be in constant touch. The musical program this year seems superior to that of any Chautauqua Chau-tauqua program in the past. The big musical feature of the week will be the coming of Thaviu's Exposition band and grand opera singers on the fifth day. This is the first time that Thaviu's Tha-viu's great organization has been west since it was at the San Francisco exposition. ex-position. There they received the notable not-able honor of both the opening and closing engagements The evening program will be supplemented by the appearance of the three grand opera singers. Ralph Errole, the lyric tenor, I Is perhaps the best known of all, pos-j sessing an unusuol voice. To the old soldier fiddlers has been given the honor of opening the week's program. This company of old veterans, veter-ans, under the leadership of Colonel j Pattee, present a patriotic program i that will never be forgotten They play old war-time songs with all the vigor of youth, featuring the ones which our nun sung when they went into battle in Civil war days. Other companies who will bring splendid and in.-piling music to the Chautauqua arc the Fenwick-Newell Concert company on the second day; tho Morrison-Smith Morrison-Smith companv on the third day; the Zedder Symphony quintet on- the fourth day and the Treble Clef club on the sixth day. The closing day of Chautauqua will also present an unusual musical attraction at-traction In the Royal Hawaiian quintet. This Is one of the best companies of Hawaiian players ever brought over from the Islands. They will give a short program in the afternoon and in the evening they will appear in "An Evening in Hawaii," assisted by Mildred Mil-dred Leo Clemens. Miss Clemens is a cousin of Mark Twain and brings to Chautauqua an illustrated travelogue, "Rambling Through Paradise." Together To-gether with her many rare pictures of the islands she has some remarkable motion pictures of Mt. Kilauea. Hawaii's Ha-waii's great active volcano. |