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SIR JAMES ALLEN TO OPEN CHAUTAUQUA.

To-night Sir James Allen will welcome Chautauqua to New Zealand- at the. big tent, Boulcott Street. The -Mayor's committee of guarantors will be represented, and the opening will be a fitting inaugural. - The first programme will be' given at 2.45 this Afternoon by tho Apollo , Concert Company, which will also follow , the formal opening:,of the evening. The company is'well equipped to act as an t opening party, for it has toured - three continents, 'giving popular concerts for a scries of successful' years. The' members - offer a wide range of classio and' popul.il features,. and', are said to be equally successful in solo, trio, and. ensemble numbers. The .Apolios'have specialised in saxaphone music, arid many of their records have had a wid-e sale by the American phonograph companies. Mr. Arthur Wells, the leader of the party, • has designed ' a special • instrument, the Apollophonc, which is'entirely licw 'in ■ , the Dominion; ' It is ail oddly-shaped design of some sixteen feet long,, and every foot has a musical surprise. It is a sort of glorified niauiiiliapfiouo with all the beauty and '.power of a churcli organ. This company will give both programmes to-day.' On Monday Dr. Andrew John- , son will deliver two, lectures, pitched to tho key ofhumorous philosophy. lth him will be.the New Zealand Trio. The big tout is to be erccted early this morning.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 2

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SIR JAMES ALLEN TO OPEN CHAUTAUQUA. Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 2

SIR JAMES ALLEN TO OPEN CHAUTAUQUA. Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 2

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