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...Chautauqua Symphony (Sat. 4:05 p.m., ABC). Première, with Guest Conductor Walter Hendl...
...first time, the governors were talking in terms of coordinated political action. In Washington, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams was working out a plan for a governors' "speakers' bureau." The plan, originated by Arizona's up & coming Howard Pyle, will set the governors off on a Chautauqua-like swing through their own states, commencing next fall, to spread the Eisenhower faith and philosophy. Last week Pyle had signed up 15 prospective barnstormers. "A governor," Ike explained, "has the chore of trying to inform the people in his state so that they will in turn support reasonable programs nationally...
Please correct the error made in your Laughton article where you state: ". . . Chautauqua in 1925 quickly and quietly faded away." In my opinion, this worthwhile institution is very much alive today at Chautauqua. Its religious and cultural programs are without parallel. During the season the Chautauqua Symphony programs are broadcast to a nationwide audience. The summer opera maintains highest musical standards. New York University offers extension work there to a host of educators from all parts of the country...
...TIME referred to the fade-out of Chautauqua as a nationwide institution, should have made it clear that the original Chautauqua still flourishes...
...Edward Thommen headed west to read the letters of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw; Emlyn Williams arrived from London with the novels of Charles Dickens under his arm. One might have thought the movies, radio and television had never been invented, and that the golden years of the Chautauqua circuit* were back again...