Mr. Elias Day

              Chautauqua Seasons of 1911-12

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Mr. Elias Day
Management of the Chautauqua Managers' Association, Orchestra Building, Chicago



ELIAS DAY

Mr. Day as Col. Fayerweather in his original sketch Going Home


The Chautauqua Managers' Association is pleased to announce that Mr. Day has consented to set aside a short period of time for Chautauqua engagements for the coming season.  Any formal introduction of his work is superfluous.  The Lyceum and Chautauqua platform will ever be indebted to him for the creation of a new art of entertainment.  His school duties have largely crowded out his Lyceum engagements.  Chautauqua committees everywhere will rejoice that he is still able to give some time to summer engagements.


Mr. Day as Herr Joseffy Seetheking in the Descriptive Symphony


Mr. Day has been popularly spoken of as a characterist.  Observing that Joseph Jefferson, Henry Irving and Richard Mansfield used wigs and makeup for the furtherance of character impersonations, he could see no reason why their artistic use was not as germane to the platform as the theater.  He has honestly tried to raise the use of wigs from a novelty to an art, and we believe that the great Lyceum public will agree with us that he has accomplished his purpose.  It should be born in mind, however, that his art in the use of these accessories is used only in building up that broader and higher art—the delineation of character.


Mr. Day as Rev. Golightly Smuggins Introducing the Lecturer




Mr. Day as Uncle Bill Bowersocks in An Old Story



The entertainment was furnished by Elias Day, characterist, and master of his art—a finished interpreter of the idiosyncrasies of human nature—here and there the touch of pathos, real and appealing.  Clever in his make-up, gesture and speech, you forgot Elias Day and saw only the character he was representing, true to life.—
Williamsport (Pa.) Gazette and Bulletin.


He is one of the most fascinating entertainers that has ever appeared in Lexington.  His work is both novel and decidedly unique, and as a characterist few can equal him.  His facial expressions fall but very little short of being marvelous.—
Lexington (Ky.) Morning Herald.


Mr. Day as Herr Weidenfeldt in A Toast to the Ladies



Perhaps the strongest number on Mr. Day's program was the sketch entitled Danny of the Patch.  If Mr. Day is not an Irishman, he ought to be.  He has the Irish humor, the Irish brogue and the Irish tenderness and sentiment, and before the story was half told his hearers had passed several times from laughter to tears and back again—
G. D. Gunn, Inter Ocean, Chicago.


Mr. Day was easily the star of the evening.  His impersonations and character sketches were the best ever given in the city.  He is no ordinary performer, depending altogether on make-up, but is a master of the art of acting, bringing the character he presents clearly and convincingly before his audience—a real personality.—
Dubuque (Ia.) Telegraph-Herald.


Mr. Day as Dennis McCarty in Cruiskeen Lawn




DE-LIGHTED



The attraction was Elias Day, characterist.  He was on the course two years ago, and a number of requests had been made for his reappearance.  His various make-ups before the audience were such as to illustrate the subjects portrayed, and were exceedingly natural.  Elias Day is a genius, his attitude on the stage suggests one who is a master of his art.—
Reading (Pa.) Daily Times.


The entertainment was first-class in every respect and each number was given rounds of applause.  The work of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Day in character readings and recitations was superior to anything ever heard in the city.  As a portrayer of characters Mr. Day is without a peer.—
Fond du Lac (Wis.) Bulletin.


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Mr. Day read several of his prose writings in a way which won him the merited commendation of his audience.  He sees people and conditions through clear, honest, sympathetic eyes, and he tells of them earnestly, simply, and yet effectively.—
W. L. Hubbard, Chicago Tribune.


After Elias Day at the Auditorium last night had recited Kipling's group of poems, the audience was his.  His delineation of the character of Tommy Atkins and the understanding of Kipling spirit should point out to him that an evening of Kipling would be most profitable and delightful.—
Topeka (Kan.) State Journal.


Elias Day, the entertaining humorist, appeared in the Library Auditorium Tuesday evening.  He uses no costumes, but portrays the characters true to life.  This number was the best of the Carnegie course.—
Pittsburg (Pa.) Press.


A Study in—Facial Expression