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...Buffalo's Federal Court last week famed, 59-year-old Chautauqua Institution was gently laid to rest in the friendly hands of two receivers. Its New York neighbors have known for weeks that, with $700,000 in liabilities, its receivership was inevitable. Others, looking back a quarter century to the time when Chautauqua was the unquestioned summer capital of U. S. Culture, have long been apt to think of it in the past tense...
...times, in the shape of cinema and radio, have left behind the traveling chautauquas which once dotted the land with their tents, brought bell-ringers, acrobats and inspirational lecturers to brighten small-town summers. But Chautauqua Institution, though popularly confused with its peripatetic namesakes, has never had any connection with them. Last week its President Arthur Eugene Bestor was sure that Depression alone is responsible for its plight...
...years 1920 to 1929 set new highs for Chautauqua prosperity. Receipts never fell below $100,000, attendance averaged 50.000. By 1932 receipts and attendance had fallen off 40%. Brisk, earnest Dr. Bestor, who has been with Chautauqua since 1905, calls receivership a "breathing spell," has lost none of his faith in the gospel of adult education. Last week he was going ahead with plans for Chautauqua's 1934 season, hoping to finance it with contributions and the sale of $100,000 worth of receivership bonds...
...Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...
...Common Room on "The Lord at 68 Looks Back". He probably has the most remarkable entrance "cue" in all stage history,--"Gangway! Gangway! For the Lord God Jehovah!" This charming actor made his stage debut only two years ago, when Marc Connelly discovered him giving drama readings on Chautauqua programs and in churches. His talk will be open to interested members of the University. The Club hopes to have other prominent actors speak to it at luncheons during the coming year...