CHAUTAUQUA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1920, Page 5

CHAUTAUQUA.

NEW PLYMOUTH SEASON CONCLUDED. v, The New Plymouth season of the 1f120,. j Chautauqua was brought to a coaclu- 1 sion last night, The afternoon SMriott' *| consisted of a concert by the Pen Wick .5 Newell party and a lecture by Mr. : t} C. Beed on "The New Era in CiviiisM f tion." -vj At night the Junior Town Chttutau- ■ qua held the platform for the first put 1 of the programme. They presented » v pngeant in which the "Mayor and town 5 council together with representative* of nil the civic and other, organisations" -j generally denounced "grousers" and urged, ' the lot of the whole community, and-. ' told of what was being done to better everybody to be a "booster" for bis or "'b her own town. The children's effort re- .1 ceived warm applause, and great credit is due to them and t<> Jlrs Paget, who prepared them in the short space at five days. -1 ! Following this Mr. Hopper, the Ideal m.-.nager, on behalf of all who had ■ 011 the Chautauqua circuit, thanked people of Now Plymouth for the cojdiiA $| manner in which they had been • Tfi *; ceived, and expressed the hope that a Rufji,, fk'ient number would be willing to Bigi(3 the guarantee to ensure the Chautauqua] coming again next year. A minimum ot J sixty guarantors is required, and the ■ limit of liability is £5. The list is al- * ready signed to within a few of the required number. He then introduced Mr, i Reed, who gave, as the concluding lee- ' ture, a talk on "The World's. Greatest 1 Need," ■. I Mr. Reed has a happy way of putting himself on good terms with his hearers. Having done this, he proceeded on the 1 way to tell them what he thought the greatest need of the world was. He fol- ' lowed a process of negation, and told th'e audience of the things which certain . classes of people looked upon a* the-"] great need of the world, and although he gave credit for what* some of thes4 • j things would do, and were doing, for the •; world, he was not satisfied that thoy would furnish what he considered was the greatest need, and when he reached his concluding point he urged that there was nothing that the world needed to- \ day so much as a return to the old-fash-ioned honor and honesty of the Master Teacher. The evening's programme was con* eluded with a short concert by the Fenwiek Newell Party, who maintained the reputation they made for themrelm * ; on their previous appearances. Miu Baker (violinist) and Mr. Newell (t*J»> ' or) each had to respond to double eft* cores.