Word: chautauqua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries a story, crying to be told and retold, has haunted the hearts and minds of men: the story of Jesus. Its source material is seed-small: the four Gospels, the New Testament apocrypha, the histories of Josephus, the pseudepigrapha.* Yet its literature is enormous. In Chautauqua, N. Y., famed cultural and religious resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman...
Annamary Dickey, as fetching as a cinema heroine, reached the top the way a cinema heroine should. A college and Juilliard School graduate, she has been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start...
...Voice took to the Chautauqua circuit as a lecturer on human behavior, has been a steady broadcaster since 1926. His radio salary of $2,000 a week is augmented by lectures, sales of his books and pamphlets. That he is stumped by few human problems is evident from the titles of his 300 pamphlets. Some of them: Love and How to Express It, Acidosis (and how to overcome it), Promiscuous Kissing, The Care of the Skin, Disciplining Your Child, Insomnia, War of the Sexes, Feminine Shapeliness, Have You Been Jilted? Although the pamphlets cost 3? each, a listener whose troubles...
When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players...
...life became a matter of missed trains, hurried meals, bad hotels. Sometimes Chautauqua people went a little batty under the strain of missing trains; one lecturer rushed on the platform, spent the time for his lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along...