THE CHAUTAUQUANS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1729, 3 February 1921, Page 5

THE CHAUTAUQUANS.

Large audiences greeted the Chautauquans again yesterday, the concert hall of the Opera House being the locale of the fixture. The contributors to the programme battled valiantly against the all-pervading echo (and th Q tendency of some mothers to regard the afternoon session as a nursery fixture), and* succeeded in pleasing the audiences passing well. To the musical part of the programme Miss Lulu Root (contralto), and .Mr W. L. Paton (pianist and composer), contributed a variety of items. Solid fare was provided by Mr Joel W. Eastmann, an original philosopher, who discoursed in the afternoon on "Hidden Things," in which (despite a habit of a dropping inflection by which the conclusion of a number of valuable sentences were lost in the back of the throat), he traced the development of the human race from remote antiquity and showed the contribution of each section of human.beings to the ordered (and disordered) state of Society in which we find ourselves to-day. In the evening discourse "The Unfolding of Democracy" Mr Eastmann traced the growth of modern institutions with a wealth of arresting -verbal illustrations taking the optimistic view that the final destiny of the race would be upward and onward toward the stars, and emphasising the necessity which existed for those charged with the conduct of public affairs through democratic processes being honoured and encouraged in the work, struggles and sacrifices for the accomplishment of higher ideals. At the conclusion of the address there was a demonstration of approval and many went forward to personally testify their great appreciation of the lecturer's views.

To-day's programme will be in charge of the Overseas Entertainers, fine, vivacious, artistic, young ladies, who have entertained audiences in many parts of the world on both sides of the Pacific and on both sides of the Atlantic. This organisation has toured! constantly for the last five years. They have delighted audiences in the camps and hospitals in France —have won an enviable reputation in England, United States, Canada, and Alaska. The personnel of the company include Miss Beulah Truitt, manager, reader, entertainer, Miss Amelia Carstinson, director, .violin soloist, and Saxaphonist, Miss Helen Ferguson, cornet soloist, soprano soloist and pianist, and Miss Emily Gernand, 'cello soloist and piano soloist. There'll be no gloom on the fourth day of Chautauqua, to-day.*