CHAUTAUQUA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1919, Page 4

CHAUTAUQUA.

ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINMENT. The Chautauqua entertainers provided an entirely diflerent bill-of-fare yesterday from that of previous days. Tue two programmes were given In* the Melody Mirth Quartette and Alias Mildred Lea Clemens, a cousin of the late Mark Twain." The afternoon audience was not a crowded one, though it was large, while at night the gathering waa one of the biggest of tho season up to the present. The Melody Mirth Quartette consists of four American young ladies from widely separated districts, who combine to give a musical and tir.'ght entertainment, for wiich they possess considerable capacity. They gave solos, duets, quartettes, and playettes in a fashion which the audiences thoroughly appreciated Miss Clemens gave a lecture in the afternoon, entitled "Training Mark Twain." The lecturer has personal recollections of America's great humorist, and she told the audience a good deal about him. Sue emphasised the fact that the adventuree of Tom Sawyer and Hneklebexiy Finn were baaed upon Mr Clemen's "recollections of his own boyhood days in a Mississippi town. She described in an interesting way eome of the scenes of his early life, and related many of the incidents told by the great humorist, con- ■ eluding her lecture with some extracts from this account of his tour in New Zealand.

In the evening Miss Clemens lectured upon the scenic beautaw of tlie Hawaiian Islands and the wonderful American National Park of the Yoseroite VaHeyMisa .Clemena presented her lecture in the fprm of an account cf a touv from New Zealand, and she held the close attention of her andicnw'. The lecture wae illustrated by some of the most beautiful lantern slides ever shown, as well ns rjme excellent kinematogtaph films re-■nro'senf-ntiva of Hawaiian volcanic activity. The slides were exquisitely tinted ■Mtitiv of the views were front photo, jrwhs t«k«n hv Miss Omens, and she tlm audience tint the colorings wro true +o reality