“Music is God’s voice heard in a language without words.”
Among the strong popular companies which will visit the South
next season, is the Boynton Concert Company, and one of the
leading performers of this Company is Ward Baker. Mr. Baker is
one of the few musicians who play to the soul and the heart, as
well as to the technical ear.
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Echoes from the Field.
Frederick Warde opens his Southern tour May first.
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Alton Pachard, the popular chalk talker, is entertaining Southern
audiences with his unique and excellent program.
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“Standard attractions,” is the decree the committees are pronouncing, and
“the survival of the fittest” will be the result.
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Ida Benfey is adding to her laurels in the South. She recently gave
George Eliot’s beautiful story of “The Mill on the Floss” before an
audience of nearly four thousand people, in Nashville, as one of the
numbers of the Lyceum Course.
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W. G. Escott, the popular secretary of the Hillsboro, Texas, Y. M. C.
A., writes the following report of the recent state convention held at
Hillsboro:
The Twenty-second Annual State Convention of the Texas Young Men’s
Christian Association was held in Hillsboro, Texas, March 18-21. The
Hillsboro Association made preparation for three hundred delegates but
only about two hundred were in attendance. It was said by all to be one
of the best conventions in every respect that has been held in years in
Texas. The prominent speakers of the convention were Dr. Ira Landrith, of
Nashville; Rev. Dr. Carroll, of Dallas, Texas; Dr. T. S. Clyce, president
Austin College, Sherman, Texas; Judge John C. Townes, of Texas State
University, and Dr. S. P. Brooks, president Baylor University, Waco,
Texas. The program was very strong in every particular. The delegates
all expressed themselves as being royally entertained by the citizens of
Hillsboro. The only thing that could have added to the pleasure of the
gathering would have been better weather.
The Texas Lyceum Association met during the convention and met the
different Bureaus represented and considered their talent. The following
were represented: New Dixie Bureau, Midland Bureau, Slayton Bureau, and
The Rice Bureau. After considering all the talent offered, the decision
was in favor of the Rice Bureau. The Associations of the state have
dealt with the Rice Bureau for several years and their attractions have
been first-class and according to representation and the service so
satisfactory that the members felt that there could be nothing gained by
making a change, so the Association business will be with The Rice Bureau
again the coming season. The new officers of the T. L. A. are Samuel
Warr, Cleburne, President; J. L. Hunter, Waco, Secretary and Treasurer.
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