Clarence E. Campbell

              CLARENCE E. CAMPBELL
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LECTURES
 AND 
DRAMATIC RECITALS




The NATIONAL ALLIANCE BOSTON: PITTSBURG:sic Pittsburgh :  Cincinnati:  Chicago:  Des Moines





EASTERN LYCEUM BUREAU




Boston, Mass. Syracuse, N. Y.





Announcement



I
N presenting Clarence E. Campbell to the National Alliance constituency we feel that we have reached the high water mark in platform merit.




We have searched several years in vain for a man who could present great literary themes dramatically, adequately, and at the same time in a popular way, so that the general audience in which are always many who have no literary foundation, would fully appreciate and enjoy the entertainment.




Mr. Campbell is the final answer to our search.




On a former occasion we thought we had found the man, a brilliant scholar with splendid powers.  This notable artist, however, was wholly out of sympathy with the non-literary masses, who have not had the time nor taste to devote many years to special study.




Mr. Campbell comes to us with a ripe experience in which he has dealt with the big social problems at first hand.  He has come in close and sympathetic touch with the great heart of the people and he understands and loves them.




He is utterly free from pedantry.  He is thus able to present great themes in such a way that they thrill and move and delight any audience, from the most purely popular audience to the best that his home city of Boston can assemble.




Mr. Campbell is magnetic, dramatic, yet always sympathetic in his presentation of great masterpieces.  His kindly sense of humor always wins his audience and his lectures and recitals have but one seeming fault—they are too short.  Yet they occupy the full time assigned by lyceum custom to such events.




Beyond question we have made a sensational find in Clarence E. Campbell.  There is unfortunately but one of him, and how to present him to all the audiences in the score of states we are now covering, is a problem we cannot well solve.




The committee that can secure him can count definitely on this—that he will measure up to the very highest standards and ideals of the lyceum.  No audience so critical that they will find the remotest fault with him, and no audience so new to the lyceum that he will fail to interest, amuse, delight and thrill.




This number we present with pride and utter confidence, assured that every date means a call for a return.  We have tried him, we think, in every possible manner, and have found him always bigger than the occasion.




THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE.






Subjects



LECTURES



The Grist of the Gods— Man in the Making
.

(Usually delivered unless another is called for.)


The Awakening of Europe— A Study of the Renaissance.


Dante— The New Culture
.


Savonarola— The New Conscience
.



INTERPRETATIVE RECITALS



Lohengrin— The Desolation of Doubt.
 
A dramatic recital of Wagner's music-drama.


The Terrible Meek— Kennedy's Anti-Military Drama.


The Melting Pot— Zangwill's Drama of Patriotism.


The Blue Bird— Maeterlinck's Fairy Drama.


In the Vanguard— Katrina Trask's Powerful Peace Play
.






In addition to these lectures and recitals Mr. Campbell is prepared to give others to suit particular occasions.  He has traveled extensively and can speak with authority on the situation in Europe and the Orient and can handle any modern drama of real merit.




He has also made a special study of great sociological questions and often lectures upon great movements that powerfully effect modern life, especially those greatly influencing women.





Commendations



The Supreme Court of Ohio, Columbus.




Clarence E. Campbell is not only an original thinker, but is exceedingly interesting, as well as persuasive, in the presentation of his theme.  He readily engages and securely holds the attention of his audience by his clear, vigorous thought, animated delivery and strong personality.  He is optimistic in his views, forceful in his arguments and thoroughly alive to the real needs of our day.
—
EDWARD S. MATTHIAS
.




Mr. Campbell's dramatic recital of Wagner's music-drama LOHENGRIN was a very interesting interpretation of this wonderful classic.  One could well imagine himself in the presence of the characters in action as the speaker with well shaded expression proceeded thru the lines of the play.  His interpretation is clear and most interesting and the occasion was a rare treat to the large audience that filled the auditorium.  The rendition was assisted with the organ with added interest.—


THE DEMOCRAT
, 
Paulding, Ohio.




The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois:




I listened to Mr. Campbell for some years and admire very much his originality of thought and his very pleasing manner of expression.  By this happy combination he never fails to please and instruct his audience.  He brings to his readings of great dramas a keen insight and such dramatic interpretation that one feels perfectly at home and on good terms with the great thoughts and characters therein.
—
MRS. LAURA B. EVANS
.




We were fortunate to have Clarence E. Campbell for the first number of the lecture course.  His splendid reading of Wagner's LOHENGRIN was thoroughly enjoyed by every person in the audience.  His presentation is such that it not only affords pleasure at the time but leaves something with you—something of value to be thought over days afterward.  Mr. Campbell will make good before any audience, with either reading or lecture.  I shall be delighted to have the opportunity to hear him again.
—E. E. 
ELDER
, 
Principal High School, Oxford, Ohio.




Clarence E. Campbell is an orator of wonderful power and personality.  Seemingly with great ease he exercises complete control over his audience and directs it at will.  He also possesses the virtue of being always intensely interesting.—


THE DAILY COURIER
, 
Taylorville, Ill.




I have heard most of the lectures and readings which Mr. Campbell announces.  The readings are rendered with splendid dramatic effect The lectures carry an appeal which quickens the thought and touches the conscience.  Mr. Campbell has an easy, natural and effective style of delivery that will please any audience.  I heartily commend his work to the public.
—
JOHN S. SNOOK
, 
Ex-Congressman, Paulding, Ohio.





CLARENCE E. CAMPBELL

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LECTURES AND DRAMATIC RECITALS