Word: chautauqua
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...Chautauqua, N. Y., under the sedate ministrations of the Chautauqua Institution, U. S. culture has flourished at its most earnest, its most uplifting, for nearly 70 summers. One day last week, Chautauquans cocked quizzical ears at the Miller Tower,* whose chimes are best known for Sunday morning hymn tunes. The chimes pealed. Oh, Johnny and Chinatown, My Chinatown. The pealer was impish, deft-fingered, blind Pianist Alec Templeton, who is equally good at Bach, boogie-woogie, musical satire, improvisation. Pianist Templeton, awakened that morning by the chimes, had asked leave to get back at them...
...Chautauqua began letting its hair down last summer, when it heard housebroken "symphonic" jazz by Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Last week 8,000 people jammed the acoustically excellent, open-sided amphitheatre to hear Pianist Templeton. He warmed up on classics, soon went to town with Grieg's in the Groove. By the time he gave his irreverent impression of senatorial Dr. Walter Damrosch analyzing Three Little Fishies for children, Alec Templeton had Chautauqua roaring its approval...
...Named for Lewis Miller, one of Chautauqua's founders, and donated by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. She presided last week at the opening meeting of Chautauqua's Bird & Tree Club...
...soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp). But at 36 (in 1892) he suddenly sold out for $75,000, enrolled at Harvard as a special student in literature and history. Shortly thereafter he had several bad novels to his credit and had launched his amazing literary career...
...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...