Nayphe

              NAYPHE JULIUS CAESAR

THE SHEPHERD



DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND.  Greeting!  I write you, friend, to spread the glorious news.  You have this year the gem of gems in the person of Julius Caesar Nayphe.  Go down on your knees and beg them to attend, for never has there appeared on the platform a more lovable, interesting, humorous, unique person than the said J.C.N.  He's it!  He is as high above all other entertainers as the highest star is above the earth.  Oh, he's a marvel!  Of course you will learn all this after he has spoken, but I want you to know before, so you can fill the hall to overflowing.


THE RICH YOUNG RULER




PRESS COMMENT
CALIFORNIA.  Julius Caesar Nayphe's lecture on Oriental customs is brimming over with information and fascinating entertainment.  Nayphe was a treat.  His entertainment pleased everybody.  He is graceful as a fawn,—dramatic, humorous, pathetic.  Socially he is extremely pleasant, cultured, refined and interesting.

CANADA.  Nayphe quite lived up to all the glowing encomiums bestowed upon him by the press, for his address was one of the most enjoyable of the whole week, a production without equal.  His work is unique and he held the attention of the audience for more than two hours.

NORTH CAROLINA.  Perhaps the most enjoyable and instructive number of the entire course was the lecture given by Nayphe.  Nothing like it has ever been presented here before, and nothing better ever given anywhere.  His presentation was not really a lecture, but a spectacle or pageant, for he told the story of the Orient, not alone in words, but with beautiful costumes designed for his work and to tell the tale of the Bible lands.

PENNSYLVANIA.  In Nayphe's act is true artistry, poetry, eloquence, inspiration, gorgeousness, spectacle, and much valuable information, all rolled into one enchanting performance.


THE BETROTHAL


OHIO.  Then followed the treat of the evening, Julius Caesar Nayphe, the Palestinian, who had the audience laughing one minute and crying the next.  This was perhaps the most entertaining serious lecture of the entire course.  Other lectures may be more serious, but this one was both serious and entertaining.  No wonder that people ask for the return of this magnificent speaker.

AUSTRALIA.  Nayphe's program proved to be one of the most enjoyable and instructive events ever witnessed here in the Lyceum.  Many of the members of the audience did not anticipate the elaborate treat in store for them.  Expecting to hear a lecture, they witnessed a fascinating show which included seven characters instead of one, who presented a well-staged ceremonial such as one has an opportunity of seeing very rarely indeed.  Nayphe was announced as a lecturer, but proved to be rather an artist, — an artist in language and movement and in program making.

NEW YORK.  'Tis said that he who tries to please everyone is a fool, but there are exceptions to every rule, and Nayphe is one of them.  To please the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the educated, the illiterate, the professional, the artistic, the clergy, and all laity is a prodigious requirement, and Nayphe succeeds.




NAYPHE JULIUS CAESAR

THE FAVORITE SON


WASHINGTON.  To rank Julius Caesar Nayphe as one of the most entertaining lecture entertainers on the American platform—is but giving the young Palestinian nobleman scant credit.  Pleasing gestures and abundant wit—were the strong points in the discourse.  His style of oratory was something new to our citizens and appealed to them strongly.  His stories kept the audience in convulsions of laughter.



PRESS COMMENT
TEXAS.  No greater lesson in Americanization could be given than that presented last night by Nayphe.  Words fail to convey any idea of the grace, beauty, wit and instruction of his lecture pageant.  It really seems like a beautiful dream, in which one was transported to a wealthy home in the East for a visit, showing the greeting given the guest, a betrothal ceremony, with costumes of rare beauty and value.  Nayphe's own attractive personality and graceful manners and ever-sparkling wit completely captivated his audience, who, through it all, received serious thoughts of loyalty to our American ideals and Christian heritage.

IDAHO.  The management of the Festival adopted a wise course in placing Nayphe's Oriental Pageant at the head of the list.  His personality is so charming and his entertainment so different from anything on the American stage that this feature was regarded by many as well worth the price of the season ticket to the whole course of five numbers.

ILLINOIS.  Nayphe gave a most colorful and interesting as well as a most instructive dramatization of the Twenty-third Psalm.  He was probably the most favorably commented upon of the entire course.  There is no word in the English language that accurately describes his work.


NAYPHE




JULIUS CAESAR NAYPHE,—a name from the lineage of the ancients, was bestowed by Assyrian Christian parents on a son who brings an inspiring message from the ruins of antiquity to the present generation.

Born in Damascus, the venerated city of learning, reared in Palestine at Caesarea Philippi, he has the blood, temperament and scholarship of the far East, its life and its lore.

Nayphe is a brilliant speaker and entertainer.  He has a musical voice of great richness and volume, and a dignified presence and poise on the platform.  His mastery of English is complete, which he uses with the attractive accent of the Orient.

He comes before his audience in the striking, colorful costume of his native people.  His lecture-entertainment abounds in cultural information, gorgeous scenic effects, and sparkling wit and humor.  He has appeared with distinguished success in every section of the United States, in Canada, Alaska, New Zealand and Australia.

THE SOUL OF THE HOLY LAND is a most enhancing exposition of life in the time of the Savior.  Customs, habits, forms of thought that have survived since Abraham was called from the city of Ur, are engagingly portrayed.

The platform is set with a triple prayer-booth, one for the Christian, the Mohammedan, and the Jew, decorated with costly oriental fabrics and rare draperies.  Tapestries of the Lillies of the Valley enhance the scene, and Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  The atmosphere of Galilee pervades the room.

Nayphe wears Palestinian raiment, — the costume of the rich young ruler, the coat of many colors, or the simple garb of the shepherd.  His descriptions are vivid as the brilliancy of his vestments, his argument profound, and his humor infectious.

The climax of this presentation is a pageant of the ancient betrothal rite, given with a group of local young women.  The bride and groom and attendants are attired in the luxurious garments of the East, — cloth of silver and gold and royal purple.  The complete ceremony with all of its olden traditions is celebrated.

THE SHEPHERD'S SONG OF THE HILLS OF JUDEA includes a marvelous interpretation of the Twenty-third Psalm.  This great pastoral song takes on new and illumined meaning with Nayphe's explanation.

As a boy on his father's country acres, he was familiar with the shepherds and flocks that still find green pastures on the hill slopes of Judea.

Clad in the habiliment of a trusted shepherd, with rod and staff in hand, Nayphe explains why The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep, But the hireling fleeth.  He describes the rod and staff, the still waters and the oil with which the head is anointed.  He tells of the wolf, the lion and viper that constantly endanger the lives of the sheep and their shepherd.

The dance of the shepherd and his song in the night-time, his call to the sheep, for they know his voice, the sick and wounded that he carries in his bosom, are vividly portrayed.

The complete Psalm and many other parts of the Bible, — verses difficult to understand without a knowledge of oriental practices, are unfolded in a clear, convincing manner.  This full interpretation is unique, entertaining, educational, and fascinating to old and young alike, to scholar and neophyte, yet deeply religious and sacred in its portent.

CHAS. H. DIXON
Personal Representative
203 Flora Ave.   PEORIA, ILL.

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