WHAT CHAUTAUQUA IS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 67, 19 March 1919, Page 7

WHAT CHAUTAUQUA IS.

The New Zealand Chautauqua movement, which opens its final week in Auckland to-morrow on the old dock site, had originally come from Lake Chautauqua in Yankeeland, but it has spread rapidly over Canada and Australia, and is now ending a very successful tour in New Zealand. The local committee of guarantors includes Mr. W. J. Napier (president) and Doctor G. S. Reekie (secretary). To-morrow the Apollo Concert Company, a gifted quintet of musicians and readers will render two programmes. They have the apollophone, a unique instrument some eighteen feet long, on whicli all five play at once, which gives out music with all the fine quality of a church organ. There win be music every day. Other companies will be the New Zealand Artists Trio, composed of Auckland ladies, the Misses Ava Symons, Jessie Bartlett, and Evelyn Harvey, the Melody Mirth Quartet, the Southern Seas Sextet of Instrumentalists, vocalists, and elocutionists, Miss Carrie Lanceley, noted English primo donna, with piano and 'cello accompanists.

The New York Players will render 'TTuckleberry Finn" and "The Maker of Dreams. Doctor Andrew Johnson, "the humorous philosopher," will speak on "Eli and Dennis," in the afternoon,, nad 'he Serious Side of Fun" at night. ■Miss Mildred Clemens will lecture in the afternoon on "Trailing Mark Twain," and at night on 'Tlambling Through Paradise." The evening lecture will be illustrated with hand-coloured slides and moving films of Hawaii, showing an active volcano. Hon. J. C. Herbeman will lecture in the afternoon, ,on "The Dry Bones of Auckland," and at night his subject will be "Carry On." Chancellor G. H. Bradford will speak on "Rebuilding the Temple of Civilisation after the chaos of war, on the basis of Anglo-Saxon leadership."

The Chautauqua will be officially opened by the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, at the Thursday evening session.

Tickets can be procured from any of the men, or from Wildman and Lyell's.