AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

CHAUTAUQUA

The Hokil l k;i season opened yesterday successfully. Both sessions—-after-noon and evening were well patronised. and the audience was very appreciative on each occasion. In the afternoon. Air R. Wild, on behalf of the local guarantors, spoke briefly, extending: a welcome to Chautauqua on its fourth return visit to Hokitika, and Mr Stout, the local director on behalf of Chautauqua, introduced the performers.

There was a very pleasant matinee concert at the Opera House yesterday by the Concert party, consisting of two ladies and two gentlemen, and an accompanist. The same party r< ndered a prelude to the lecture at the evening entertainment. The performers won event applause, every member being well received. The quartettes were very pleasing, while the duets and solos also

won marked appreciation. There was something new and di (ilH'tivo about the lecture ill the evening. which dealt with the manners and ( litmus of some of the races of the Xenr Cast. The lecturer was Mr Julius Caesar Xayph' . a high born Cru-

cian .who produced quite it stage spectacle with the drnpings and the attendant ladies garbed in rich Caste rn dresses, who represented typical folk in Mr Nay pile's homeland. The lecturer i an energetic and demonstrative talker, full of spirit which carries him through „ two hours' talk which would Ik exhausting to the average speaker, so viJI .rolls ?s Mr Xayphe in his poses tins imitations of the easterners. I here wore mans' beautiful ( e.stumcs and tapestries displayed to illustrate the lecture which was an intimate recital el domestic life in the Cast among the high horn families. Mr Xayphe is one who appreciated what XVw Zealand dul in the Creat War, and he greatly tributed this country and the men " ho went from it to help drive tiro link out of Ralestine. Ho is an intense national of his own country, and speaks of it with a touching love of his homeland. The address was interspersed V, ill, many humorous toueh.es. chiefly directed at the difficulty cxperiencV in learning the Cnglish language. He gave some enlightening touches in n - (~ well known passages "I Hie Bible, which he explain'd iur. ground ~,| j,;.;d life, coiiir and custom and were readily understood ny the leastcrus. It was an entertaining address, remarkable for the sustained energy ul f ~pc a her and for the novel m« ihei! ~| |.aci|ling a wide subject which warn" b dice. 1 1', inter, 'Dug hern n i "I : I 1.. a! tonclc s <>! detail, all'! ! he pi' • ills i mil "1 .•..'■lie "! th -nr..,|, ... jicual parlormaliee V Hie six ladies who represented the types ol tin d; of wli.mi pcci.liar manners were poiiitrayed.

Chautauqua is being continued in-day. To-night there ">ll l;l ‘ an Knglish comedy produced by a ciiiiipany uf X'w \nik ]' I'> -

c-s. it is u most interesting entiled.'. and should ho very entertaining, in ih,e Ittinds ef the capable enmpany. Season tickets are still procurable at Brocklehitrst’s nr Mr Aldridge. Single admissions to-uigllt "ill be Js. ehildren half price, both plus tax. At ('ha 11 til ttq mi to-ur rrow. the afternoon session will he mail el special interest by the appearance of the Colonial Concert Company, which consists of a soprano, a cellist ami a solo pianist. The same company will appear in the evening, submitting a change of programme. The evening concert will be followed by a v" v lii."' lecture by Dr. Frank Bohn of New York on “The World and Ourselves”. This will he an especial treat from an informative point of view, and sin ttld not he missed. Dr. Bohn is a wellknown newsnaper man. having been Burnpean eorrespnndenfTnr the “Xew York Times” for several years. He will speak on "The AA ol id and Ourselves” a lecture on the economic basis of international relations. The season concludes on Saturday for which a very complete’ and special pregramme has been foreshadowed.