The Billboard 1922-06-03: Vol 34 Iss 22 (1922-06-03)

| | | —_— eee ee o_o _— The Billboard JUNE 3, 1922 Conducted by FRED HIGH VAWTER’S FLYING SQUADRON What Papers Say About New Plan—Variation in Gross Price and Also in Price of Season Tickets—Saves Committee War Tax— Vawter Has Been Losing Money Keith Vawter ie taking his flying squad over a thirteen weeks’ tour to bolster up his towns and to make the remaining ones come thru. it is reported that he has dropped two of his three Star-Light circuits. The following item was taken from The Savannah, Mo., Reporter: “At the Community Booster meeting at the Firet M. E. Church the chautauqua committee changed the features in its contract with the Vawter Chautaugua Company which places it on a co-operative basis and eliminates the war tax. The season ticket this year will be $1.50 and no war tax. “The contract stipulates that when the gross receipts at Savannah are more than $2,542.58, after all the expenses are paid, the local organization and the chautaugua organization will share alike in the profits. “The contract still calls for eleven hundred tickets to be sold before the first day of the chautauqua, and that means that everyone must get out and boost for the advance sale of the season tickets. The outlook is that of the ninety-nine chautauquas in Central United States those that are not paying will be *liminated from the circuit. That mesns that every progressixe citizen of this community must hustle for the success of this summer's chautaugua. “The first day is to be Farmers’ Day. There is to be a big basket dinner that day. Homer Cc. Boblitt is the speaker on ‘Is Farming a Business?’ It is to be one of the best addresses on the program. “After the delicious chicken dinner, served by the M. E. Church ladies, Keith Vawter addressed the audience on the business of the chautaugua. He to!ld of some of the financial discouragements and embarrassments of the years past and that Sav@nnah is a third-class town. There are several other towns not so large as Savannah that bring greater returns financially and demonstrate an appreciation of the talents presented. Mr. Vawter not claim to be a financier. He only claims to be a buyer of the talent to present to these ninety-nine communities. He said that when it comes to paying the rental and policing the grounds of $150 at ninety-nine chautauquas and the expenses of workmen and equipment it takes conservative work and planning to make the receipts and expenditures come out as they should, but that the greatest asset is the interest displayed by the residents of the community by boosting ticket sales, “We can fill every mail box with bulletins. We can cover the local pewspapers with « vertising, and cover every telephone pole with posters, but unless we have the spirit of coOperation and appreciation and boosting for this community enterprise there would not be a corporal’s guard in attendance,’ said Mr. Vawter in urging that the price of season tickets shovld be $2, that chautanquas of the future would be given in towns that respond according|y. “Charies L. Plattenburg gave the humorons appeal of the evening for home patriotism. He told of the spirit in California and elsewhere of boosting, boosting, boosting. ‘California, the land where tlie sun shines the brightest, where every bush is a tree, where every hill is a mountain, and where every man is a liar, is the thing that makes towns grow,” he said. “In speaking of the chautangna, he said that what a boy or girl is fed when they are young that is what they will like when they are old. He said he could tell a man’s nationality and where he grew up by what he eats. If a man likes spaghetti or corn bread, or fried chicken, it is easy to tell his nationality and the State in which he grew up. %o it ig with the boys and girls who are fed on the better things in art, in literature and education. Trained in the best sentiments when they are young, they will, thrnout their lives, be inclined toward these same things. Then it stands to reason that when the best things of the world are broucht to our door for $1.50 for twenty-one programs, that a most active interest should be taken by every resident of the community. “Homer C. Boblitt, who was with the army in Russia fighting the Reds, told of some of his experiences there. He suid that because people believed in God and had on them the symbol of the cross that they were killed ty the Bolsheviki. Eyes punched out and even babies mutilated by their limbs being torn from their bodies, All these Reds of Russia, none of them Lelieved in God. Ue saw twenty placed before the firlug squad and he asked each one if he wished to bare a word of prayer or a men o® God to talk to them and each of them answered that they <id not he ‘eve in God. Russian starvation with prodrction opportunity as great as any in the world is because of this and similar sentiments keeping them from work. When we have several thousand I. W. W. in the United States it is a matter to be reckoned with locally. He told of the ignorance of Russia being a fertile soil for this isheviki to grow and the chautavqua is the antithesis of ignorance and is supplemental to the church and school, and no community can afford to be without it." The fact that Vawter lost money in 77 towus and only made money in 22 towns last year is set forth by Manager Vawter in his speech at Sheibina, Mo., and the following excerpts taken from The Democrat of that city will give much light on this activity: “Only a emall number of people greeted representatives of the Redpath-Vawter Chantaugua System at the New Janus Theater Building here Monday morning. The object of the meeting was to arouse interest in the coming chautauqua, and discuss its benefits to the community as a whole. “Those present were disappointed at the absence of Homer C. Boblitt, who was to have made an address. Mr. Boblitt is one of the lecturers on the chantaugua platform this summer. He intended to come here Monday but was unexpectedly called to his home. “Keith Vawter, head of the system, and Chas. H. Plattenburg, a rapid fire lecturer, were present. Vawter was here, making the rounds of his circuit, to get acquainted with local conditions, and to acquaint the people with the conditions of the chautangua business. He said that for the past two or three years jt had been a losing game; that last year only 22 out of the 99 towns on the circuit actually paid expenses, His idea wes that as the chautauqna was more or less of a cooperative and educational institution, the people should be made aware of these facts.’’ Keith shows the committee how to co-operate and thereby save the war tax. Corning, Ia., Republican reports the meeting and activities of the Flying Squadron and what it did in that town: “Last week there was a meeting of the executive board of the local chautauqug organization for the purpose of cousidering the bew proposition made by Manager Keith Vawter, of the Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua System, at the big Co-Operative Club banquet a short time ago. The committee decided that the new proposition is more advantageous to the grarantors of the chautanqua than the old plan, and notified Mr. Vawter that it had been accepted. The new contract contains the Same guaranty ciause as before, $1,750, but eliminates the Government war tax, as it makes the system co-operative and educational, on which there is no war tax. That means a saving of $175 on the guaranty, which here tofore has ineluded the war tax. “The committee also definitely decided on the price of season tickets this year at $2 each, which is 48 cents cheaper than *last year tickets at $2.25 and war tax.” SAMPLE OF THE GENEROSITY And Sanity of the Speakers Who Held Forth at the First Religious Chautauqua The Christian Church ministers have been holding what they termed the First Religious Chautauqua at Columbus, Ind. Here is sample of what they had to say at that gathering: ““Every Unitarian minister jin the world is a minister of the devil.’ was the startling statement made last night at the religious chautangua held in the Tabernacle Church of Christ by Dr. White, of Portland, Ore., known as the ‘Apostle Paul of the Pacific Coast’. ‘You know that is true, for they all deny the inspiration of the Scriptores, the virgin birth, the blood and the resurrection.’ “Dr. White had preceded his unexpected denouncement by saying that the devil does net wear horns, but comes around as the angel of light, sometimes with his collar buttoned behind so that it is hard to tell whether he is coming or going. _“He stated that the epistle to the Philippians was the genuine in contrast to the teachings of Christian Science, which is the counterfeit, the pewter coin. He deplored the fact that there were so few who really knew anything about the Seriptures. For a num ber of years the speaker had taught in the high school in Portland and he told of some amusing results of examinations he had given which explained the ignorance of people in general in respect to the inspired word.” Brenbam, Tex., April 28.—The Brenham chautauqua assembly for 1922 closed last night after a week of splendid lectures and musical entertainment furnished by the Ellison-White Chautauqua Service. The $1,750 guarantee for this year was more than raised by the sale of season tickets before the chautauqua opened and the contract for 1923 was signed by more than forty representative Brenham men and women.— ' COMMITTEE REPORTS ON FIVE COMPANIES 2921.22 ‘COMMITTEE REPORTS Delighted, ge Pleased, 90: Fair, Barely Got By, 70; Unsat.sfactory, 00. CLIFFORD FOOTE TRIO The Clifford Foote Trio has been reported from 14 places. In twelve towns they were given 100 per cent, in one 95 and in another place 90, making a general average of 98.02. Toledo, Ml. .....100 Columbiaville, Mich. New Waverly, [nd.100 Williamsport, Ind.1W Green astic, ind. “100 ft Center, assar, Mich. .... 7 re 0 Rock Creek, Ind. 100 Ohili, Ind. ......100 Lagro, Ind. ......100 Roann, Ind. ......100 Kempton, Ind. .. % Lawrence, Mich...100 Lucerne, Ind. .... OPERATIC TRIO Twenty-six towns reported on the Operatic Trio, with twenty-one committees giving them 100, one 95 and four marked them 90, Their total genera] average js 98.26. Ind. 100 Milbrook, Il. ..100 Bainbridge, Freedom, Ind. ....0 Esmond, [ll ..... Huntsville, Ind. 100, «~Meek.n, Til ......2100 Hamilton, Mich. .100 Chesterton, Ind. .100 Burnetts Creek, Arlington Deights, > ae WeO, ccvccccccce oseeees Jonesboro, Ind. ..100 Woodland, IL .. 90 Harlem, Rockford, Dana, TL ..eeee.. 100 . cdescvecccece Mineral, Il. .... 90 Manlius, . eeeel00 Haldane, TL ....100 Kasbeer, Tl. .....100 Hebron, Il. ......100 Hooppole, Il. ....100 East Lynn, Ill. .. 95 Ridgefield, Wl. ..100 Hok omb, Hl. ..0. 9 Garden Prairie, 11.10) Triumph, Ill, .,.. 90 Mich. .100 SMITH-SPRING-HOLMES ORCHESTRAL QUINTET Thirty-three comuwittees Twenty-five Brooklyn, reported on this marked them 100, one Minersville, Pa. .. ® Quinter, Kan. ....100 Prestonburg, Ky. 100 Galena, TH .,....100 Jackson, Tenn, ...100 Albany, Wis. ... 95 Terrili, Tex. .e-J09 El Paso, Tl. ....100 Rusk, Tex. 02 000ed00 Wilson, Kan. ...100 Farmerville, La. 90 Milton, Wis. .....100 Ava, Mo, sereeeee 00 Delavan, Wis, ...100 Aurora, Mo. .+-..100 Ft, Atkinson, Wis.100 Mt. Vernon, Mo. .100 Johnson's Creek, Greenfield, Mo. . #0 Wie. cccccccces St. Louis, 12.. 90 Arkansas Oity, Vinton, La, .....100 TM, sccccaceentee Storm Lake, Ia. ..100 Kan. .100 Sheldon, Ia, ¢.....100 Hoisington, Kan. .100 Mt. Morris, Til.::100 Great Bend, Kan.” 90 Morrison, Ill. ....100 Oostburg, Wis. ... 90 Moundridge, Kan. .100 §=Alpha, O. ....++.-100 Sterling, Kan. .. 90 SORORITY SINGERS Twenty committees reported on the Sorority Singers. Four marked them 1, two 95, twelve 90, one 85 and one 80. Their general average is 41.75. Brooklyn, Mich. .100 Somerset, Ind. .. 90 Buck Creek, Ind. 100 Reading, Mich. . 90 Lincoin, H. §. .100 Converse, Ind. .. 90 Whitestown, Ind. 100 Farmersburg, Ind...00 Boggstown, Ind, 95 Besley. Ind. ..... 90 Mendon, Mich. .. 95 Hagerstown, Ind. . 90 Weston, Mich. ... 90 Gen. fee. .rcove 90 White Pigeon, Hillsdale, Ind. .. 90 Mich, ...-.0e0.. 90 Camden, Mich. .. 85 Horton, Mich. .... 90 Greenwood, Ind. . 80 Bristol, Ind. . 90 CHICAGO ORCHESTRAL CLR The Chicago Orchestral Club was reported on oy twenty-six committees. Seven towns marked them 100, thirteen 90, three S5 and two re ted 80, making their general average 91.53 tarbuck, Minn, .100 Bovey, Minn. .... 90 Ragley, Minn. .. Taconite, Minn. .. % Weils, Minn. .....1700 Clarks Grove, Minn. % Boyd, Minn. ....100 Jordan, Minn. ,,.100 Delano, Minn. .. % Ashby, Minn. .... 20 Janesville, Minn. 99 Gay'ord, Minn. .. 90 Olivia, Minn. ....100 Melrose, Minn. ..100 Prior Lake, Minn. 90 Tiwabik, Minn, . S85 Halstad, Minn. .. 90 fHuteninson, Minn.. 90 Stewartville, Minn. 9) Spring Grove, Minn. 90 Hillsboro, is. »« 80 Winthrop, Minn. . 90 Cadott, Wis. .... 85 Neopit, Wis. .... 90 Magnetic Springs, Drummond, Wis. 0 Ge. covccescseccsl® COMBINING SHOWMANSHIP WITH ART “Yesterday's avdiences at the Phoenix Chautauqua witnessed a program of music and entertainment just a bit different from anything seen heretofore. 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