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'W "flats." the highest point in the village Marie Tavary, Laura Shirmer Maple- People on the hillsides heard and enjoyed son, Frank Daniels, James T. Powers, and included about all the best vocalists those concerts. Children were enchanted Pauline Thomas Q. brass- Hall, Seabrooke, in the town 'and county. It performed with such a thing as their popular Francis Wilson, Camille D'Arville, Lillian and Gilbert & Sullivan's then fresh band into the clouds sang going up seemingly Russell, Delia Fox, Jeff au DeAngelis, Edna and famous light operas to crowded to render sweet music for people down on in' May, Alice Neilsen, Hattie Williams, Sam diences Wilgus Hall and later in the the earth. Bernard, Jerome Sykes, Henry Clay Lyceum. Soloists and chorus were worthy One of the delightful pastimes of the Barnabee, W. H. MacDonald, Lulu of any stage in any city. Mr. Storms's men singers was their frequent serenades Glaser, Mabelle Gilman, Walter Jones, splendid bass voice was the most popular of friends after midnight. Those Sere Grace Van Marie of New York and Studdiford, Cahill, basses in Central Mrs. nades are fresh in some memories and Rogers Brothers, Fritzi Mont Atwater's soprano has been for years Scheff, many still treasured by people now living in gomery & Stone, Eva Tanguay, Frank among the best. this and elsewhere. Our musicians city Lalor, Louise Gunning, Anna Held. Traveling opera and theatrical com and singers were never stingy, with their Gertrude Raymond Hitch panies all declared for years that the Hoffman, music in those faraway years. In the ( cock, Julia Donald Lyceum orchestra was far better than Sanderson, Brian, forties and fifties they gave elaborate Weber & Fields, Florence Webber, Elsie any other that they found in any city, concerts and published the programs Janis, Four Cohans, Marguerite large or small. Ithaca audiences de for the but not the names of Sylva, audiences, Madam Antoine manded class of Schumann-Heink, Seidl that orchestra, and they the performers. William H. Storms has Orchestra, Victor Herbert still. trait is an demand it The inheritance one of them that was published in that Orchestra, Dan Godfrey's Sousa's for Mrs. Morris is a Heath and a Band, Hand, The native; period for a concert in the town or village Kilties Band, Boston Festival John Wilson's family came from Danby, floor of the Orchestra, hall. The entire second city Ysaye, E. M. a native of violinist; Hoffman, Treman is W. now occupied fire pianist; Ithaca, hall of this day is by Maude a Powell, Joseffi, pianist; Pryor's Grant Egbert is native of Danby, six clerk. It was a companies and city pop Band, miles over the southern MacMillan, violinist; Robert G. hills. Mrs. At ular public hall. Ingersol, Ian water's father was a famous violin leader lecture; MacLaren, lecture; Eli off" Perkins,, Marshall P. and "called at popular dances in old lecture; Wilder, ; lecture; Burr Mcintosh, Pa-w- times. Renney was, a very intelligent lecture,; j Iowa, Hermann the Great Kellar. importation from England, small in STARS WHO HAVE APPEARED AT physique, but handsome, a student of THE LYCEUM SINCE 1893 Few cities the size of Ithaca, or much larger for that have been afforiied |THACA SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT Shakespeare and one of the readiest men matter, the opportunity of seeing and hearing;the i ORGANIZED 20 YEARS AGO in Ithaca to see the point of a quip or a world's greatest ., actors and actresses. The of suffrage; joke and or tell one and burst into history the woman play "stars" Yet a list of the who have been movement which comes to a crisis this convulsive laughter. He was the singing heard here Since 1893 includes of fall in New York State is interV lion of his day and generation in this many especially the leaders on the English stage. in. Tompkins which has county and a free lance in social and speaking esting County The list compiled Manager M. >M. proved itself one of the most progressive commercial circles. Renney read music by Gutstadt Of the Lyceum theatre follows: counties in reforms of "at sight". He was also a strict diciplin- urging many kinds. Sir J. The first suffrage Was arian. Henry 'Irving/ Forbes-Robertgon, organization here E. S. Willard, Mrs. Patrick Camplell, formed twenty years ago as a section of Two voices and the natural intelligence Charles the Ithaca Woman's Club but grew so'1 im- Olga Nethersole, Lily Langtry,,, of their Owhers that have strongly Hawtrey, Joseph Jefferson, Richard rapidly that it was soon decided to form pressed the writer as worthy of fame and Mansfield, Sol Smith Russell, Otis, Skin another organization, although the women fortune which their neglectful owners ner, William Fayersham, Thomas Keene, of the Political Study Club which was the acquired were i never, John V. Wilson's and ' Louis James, Frederick Warde, Alexander outcome, still retained membership in the; Jarries Silke's. Mr. Wilson's voice was Salvinin, Mojeska, - Nazimova,a Maude Woman's Club. equal to the enchanting voice of Evan Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Johii Drew, However, many Ithacans were not con Williams. Mr. Silke's was as powerful Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William" C, certed right away. A woman who came as Renney's *and richer, sweeter and more Crane. to Ithaca to live about 20 years ago states , a I winning. J3ut it was like a bird singing Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mrs. LeMoyne, that one afternoon shortly after her ar on a bough, for Silke had very domineering Eleanor Robson, Roland Reed, Nat Good rival she was attending an afternoon tea objections to the measure and time fixed win, Felix Morris, Louis Morrison, Henry when someone spoke about woman suf by Gounbd and the great composers. Dixie, Robert Hillard, Ezra Kendall, frage. The woman, new to Ithaca, made A of old residents will recall sprinkling John Mason, Charles Coghlan, Rose some remark which caused her listener to inquire,' the three Tappen suffragist?" Halsey brothers, George, Coghlan, Julia -Marlowe, F. H. Sothern, "Surely you are not a and a songsters and popular am," William, James O'Neill, Marie Wainwright, Stuart "Why, of course, I was the reply. and who , Charles Curtiss died "Sh! citizens; Robson, Edward Harrigan, Mrs. Fiske, Don't let anybody know it, my a year or two ago in the west. All four position," Robert Downing, Denman Thompson,/ dear, or you'll lose your social were druggists. .FrankBetts was another Madam Rhea, James K. Hackett, Henry the older resident of Ithaca cautioned her. often in public entertainments and sang Miller, Viola Allen, William Collier, Louis Mrs. M. E. Calkins, one of the pioneer Mann.' and fewer still will and local minstrels; woman suffragists of this city, at whose remember the Covert family, a relative Clara Lipman, Marie Dressier, May home the first suffrage club was organ of whom is said to have composed "The Irwin, Tim Murphy, Frank Keenan, Piter ized, says: Hill," Sword of Bunker JOhn V. Wilson's F. Dailey, Bertha Galland, Kathryn Kid "Why write a outline of the growth favorite ballad. Frank Betts, has beeh der, J'. H. Stoddart, E. M. Holland, Elsie of woman's suffrage in Ithaca ? Would it New- dead many years. Kate Dean, of DeWOlfe, Grace George, Kyrle Bellew, not be more accurate to write of 'knowing ourselves' field, had the reputation of singing hun ^Henrietta Crosman, Dan Daly, Chauhcey and to state that Ithaca had dreds of recruits into the army in the (Olcott, Andrew Mack, Effie Ellser, David always believed in equality for men and sixties. She was popular with soldiers Warfield, Virgiana Harned, Blanche Walsh, women; that she was a pioneer in the and recruiting officers. She resides in William Gillette, Marie Doro, Blanche movement. Ithaca now. Mrs. (Wilcox) Morris and Bates, Mary Mannering, Amelia Bing Shock at First Mrs. Goodrich (Monell) are now residents ham, Herbert Kelsey, Effie Shannon, "Nevertheless it was a shock when of Ithaca. Arnold Daly, Wilton Lackaye, Annie some twenty years ago a Woman's Suf Robert Edeson, Dustin Farnum, frage Club was formed here for the study Sunday Evening Concerts Russell, Maxine Elliott, Fay Davis, Robert Lor of civic and political questions. The Not a few will recall the evening Sunday John E. Kellerd, name sounded formidable; but when we Whit- raine, Digby Bell, Mary concerts, after church services, by Shaw, Robert Mantell, Margaret Anglin, learned what it was all about, Ithaca lock's band on top of the round, turret May Robson, Rose Stahl, George Arliss, began to realize that she had believed in like, open top cupola on the Clinton William Hodge, Guy Bates Post, Kate it all the time, that she had lived it and church steeples it was Housed Excepting Claxton. proved its justice. Persecute Minister can be discovered concerning early the as Great excitement is caused in little) r of Ithaca stood with hy, yes, course, of all Ithaca. It will include pictures excommuni town when eight people are ornell for equal educational University places important public the first general Moral cated from the church and the privileges for men and women and had only the Ithaca the school house acre, Hotel, plans to annihilate the preacher. seen them alike prepared for fife. Ithaca Society that served as a house on Sun meeting steal a sign from a local thought it just that taxpayers regardless They tavern, etc. old dances, etc., obtained day, Many customs, which states that rum is to be of sex, should vote on questions of special will be represented as well as old fashioned tax, like acquiring municipal water works, music and songs, such as our great grand additions to etc.1 building schoolhouses, and place it on the door of the Rev.