The Caveny Co.

              CAVENY CO.

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MANAGEMENT MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU, AUDITORIUM BLDG., CHICAGO



Caveny & Company Introductory

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J.FRANKLIN CAVENY, the famous Cartoonist, Clay-Modeler and Impersonator, is too well known to need any introduction.  Since his appearance on the lyceum platform twelve years ago he has risen steadily in public favor; his praises have been sung from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and as Fred Emerson Brooks has so cleverly put it:


Caveny is a witty and artistic genius.
He makes chalk fly;
He makes birds fly;
He makes his tongue fly
And his fingers fly;
And as people laugh and wonder at these different flies,
They are amazed to see how time flies.
So take J. Franklin Caveny
If artist you would have any.


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Mr. Caveny has not been content with the fame already won but is adding to his reputation by introducing to the lyceum public his great protean novelty of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.  From this story of Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Mr. Caveny has found material for a wonderful ethical drama.  He impersonates five characters from the book, making the transitions so rapidly that the costumed changes seem instantaneous.  Another and extremely popular portion of the varied program is the vocal performance of MARIE M. CAVENY.  This young woman has an expressive soprano voice of great range and beauty.  Some of her songs are illustrated by Mr. Caveny's rapid and skillful hand.  Mrs. Caveny is also a pianist of rare accomplishment.  The whole program offers an evening of varied and continued interest.  You will want a return engagement.

THE MANAGEMENT.


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Marie M. Caveny   Soprano Soloist

Toronto (Ont.) World
—The musical selections were received by hearty rounds of applause.


Buffalo (N. Y.) Times
— She has a voice of wonderful promise.


Omaha (Neb.) Bee
— Petite and graceful, she surprised by her great range and artistic singing.


St. Paul (Minn.) Globe
— A sympathetic voice of brilliancy and great range.


Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune
— Her voice delighted all.


St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch
— The piano solos and accompaniments were well rendered and greatly enjoyed.


Chicago Inter Ocean
— Proved a great favorite with the audience.


Cleveland (O.) Leader
— A voice of exceptional sweetness and brilliancy.


Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune
— She is one of the prettiest and most pleasing artists we have heard for some time.


Scranton (Pa.) Tribune
— Her manner was self sustained and confident, her singing was delightful.


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New York World
— The soprano solos elicited applause.  She possesses a voice of unusual sweetness to which is added the charm of a sympathetic personality.


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St. Louis (Mo.) Dispatch
— A pleasing stage presence and a voice of great range.


Cincinnati (O.) Enquirer
— She sings with abandon and much temperament.




J.Franklin Caveny Impersonator

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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON



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J. FRANKLIN CAVENY
IN FIVE CHARACTERS FROM
DR. JEKYL AND MR. HYDE




J. Franklin Caveny   Crayon Artist

SUPERLATIVE INDORSEMENT

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J. F. Caveny
1906
Richard Mansfield—Mr. Caveny is a very clever impersonator indeed.

Capt. Jack Crawford—Caveny's pictures are more than caricatures.  * * There are gems of rare beauty among them.  * * Caveny is great.

Lou J. Beauchamp—Caveny's color work is the best I have ever seen.

Geo. B. Britt (Mgr. Britt Lecture Bureau) Boston, Mass.—He surprised and delighted the exclusive Boston Art Club, and that is indeed rare praise for a cartoonist.

Hon. Geo. R. Wendling—I unhesitatingly pronounce the work of J. Franklin Caveny the best I have ever seen.

The Rice Bureau, Nashville, Tenn.—You have pleased the people of the South greatly.  We have many applications for return dates.

D. E. Luther (Sec'y Y. M. C. A.) Atlanta, Georgia—One of the very best entertainments we have ever had in our building.

A. E. Palmer (Manager Southwestern Branch Central Lyceum Bureau)—It is with sincere pleasure that I speak of the platform work of Mr. Caveny.  I have had the opportunity of seeing his work, both in part and in full programs, and unhesitatingly say that his chalk-talks never fail to captivate his audiences.  There is novelty in his work, which gives the charm; there is variety which gives the spice; there is strength coupled with deftness which gives character.  He is by temperament and education an artist; by genius an entertainer.  Mr. Caveny has won golden opinions and continues to be received with the warmest favor and delight.


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J. G. Reeves (Secretary Y. M. C. A.) Ft. Worth, Texas—I have had the greatest chalk talkers of the country on our lecture course and I think Caveny more rapid and entertaining than any of his predecessors here.

K. M. White (The White Entertainment Bureau) Boston, Mass.—Mr. Caveny's work is the best of its kind I have ever seen.

Spillman Riggs (Lecturer)—I have frequently been asked by Chautauqua managers and lyceum committees to name the most thoroughly entertaining crayon artist on the American platform, and I never hesitate to say that I consider

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 J. Franklin Caveny to be that man.  As a lecturer I have followed him in hundreds of courses, and his praise is always heard where his work has been seen.

Fred Pelham (Manager Central Lyceum Bureau of Chicago)—We have heard no adverse criticism.  Your work is giving great satisfaction everywhere.


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J. J. Hennessy (Secretary of the Knights of Columbus, Auburn, N. Y.)—Mr. Caveny was a great success.  The audience was loath to leave when he had finished, and many waited to be personally introduced.  His work was simply wonderful.  He was the best of the entire course and we want him again.

Miss Jane Addams, Chicago—Mr. Caveny has been at Hull-House several times and delighted all with his artistic sketches.

William Allen White—J. Franklin Caveny highly pleased the people.  He is certainly worthy of patronage.

James F. Oates, Secretary Central Y. M. C. A., Chicago—Mr. Caveny made one of the hits of the season here.  He was repeatedly recalled.




J. Franklin Caveny   Illustrated Songs

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Henry Watterson —Your drawing was very good.

Ernest Gamble (Basso) —For a refined and yet popular entertainer he ranks with the very best.

Rev. D. F. Fox (Lecturer) Chicago —I saw and heard Mr. Caveny and was delighted with his work.  He has the true artistic temperament and knows how to popularize.  I can only echo what I heard on all sides.  He is a genius in his line.

E. W. Landon (Manager Stamford, N. Y., Seminary Lecture Course Association) —Mr. Caveny, the artist, won the hearts of our people from the first; and every deft movement of his hand was a source of pleasure and delight.  No mistake can be made in obtaining the services of this talented artist.


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Watertown (N. Y.) Daily Standard
— Mr. Caveny is the best crayon artist that has ever appeared before a Watertown audience.  His studies were both artistic and amusing.


Springfield (Mo.) Republican
— First on the course came the celebrated cartoonist, J. Franklin Caveny, who with a few sweeping curves placed before us the classic brow and comic countenance, and then a few dots and dashes and there appeared before us that most enchanting scene, Moonlight on the Hudson.


Kansas City (Mo.) Evening Times
— J. Franklin Caveny gave an entertainment at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday.  The room was packed with an appreciative audience.  He gave a remarkable exhibition of lightning changes from one kind of picture to another.


Greeley (Colo.) Tribune
— Mr. J. Franklin Caveny's crayonings of human mugs and following these up with lightning presentations of sunset scenes and moonlight scenes, all in several brilliant colors, were really too magical for the well-known reticence of the Greeley auditor; and he just simply had to voice his admiration.


Wichita (Kan.) Beacon
— Mr. Caveny made a distinct hit.  He drew almost continuous applause by his clever work with the crayon.  To his final number he received two encores, and had to bow his acknowledgments to a third before the insistent audience would excuse him.


Port Henry (N. Y.) Herald
— Mr. Caveny, the crayon artist, gave us a genuine treat.  His cartoons were apt, and his evolutions of landscapes and marines delighted everyone.  Yet it was a question which were the most gratified — eyes or ears.


Saginaw (Mich.) Evening News
— J. Franklin Caveny presented some very interesting effects with colored chalks, drawing caricatures of famous men, sketching faces from the audience and evolving unexpected results from peculiar beginnings.  The whole entertainment was delightful.

Rev. Thomas McClary (Lecturer)—J. Franklin Caveny comprehends the picture alphabet, and with a touch of the chalk causes wonder, laughter and surprise.  No committee will regret employing him.  He is a gentleman worthy of the great success he has made in his art.

George F. Brown, Jr., (Chicago Athletic Association)—Mr. Caveny's chalk-talk was one of the most delightful entertainments we ever had.  The artistic quality of his landscapes, the humor of his caricatures and his dexterity delighted us all.


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Hon. C. W. Varnum, Secretary Trinity M. E. Church Lecture Course, Denver, Colo.—It gives me great pleasure to say that your entertainment gave universal satisfaction, as you could very well see by the fact that you were called back three or four times, and they wanted you more.  To me your work is little short of marvelous, and I hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you again.

A. S. Humphrey, Prof. Knox College Department of Oratory, Galesburg, Ill.—Caveny is the greatest crayon artist on the platform.

President Henry Hartzog (State Agricultural College, Clemson, S. C.)—J. Franklin Caveny is a man in whom the artist and the humorist blend into a charming personality.  He is a great favorite everywhere.


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J. Franklin Caveny   Cartoonist

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Yonkers (N.Y.) Statesman
—J. Franklin Caveny delighted his audience last evening in the hall of the Woman's Institute with his rapid and artistic picture work.  As fast as his hand could travel over the paper Mr. Caveny produced, in almost bewildering succession, various types of the human countenance, transformations and landscapes.  He did not depend alone upon his skill in caricature, but with the colored chalks produced beautiful scenes of land and water, day and night, winter and summer.  Each step of his work was a surprise, and the interest and wonder of the audience increased to the end.  The bright and entertaining talk with which Mr. Caveny accompanied his drawing was an added element of amusement and interest, and his evening was one of the best of the entire course.


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Galveston (Texas) Daily News
—Caveny is greater with the chalk than Thos. Nast, the man who destroyed with his pictures Boss Tweed.


Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times
—Too much cannot be said of Caveny, the chalk talker and humorist.  His evolution pictures were appreciated.  His witticisms were bright and never failed to provoke a laugh.


Rockford (Ill.) Morning Star
— Mr. Caveny with his sketches and cartoons made a distinct hit.  He has a bewildering multitude of good ideas for this sort of work, and not only makes his pictures well, but is remarkably rapid in execution.  On each appearance he made a better impression than before and aroused the audience to great enthusiasm.


Weyawega (Wis.) Chronicle
—The last attraction, J. Franklin Caveny, cartoonist and chalk talker, was doubly interesting because of his being accompanied by Mrs. Caveny.  Mr. Caveny occupied Saturday and Sunday.  His rapid delineations of everything from the human countenance to a black cat serenade is accompanied by witty explanations, and the interest and attention of the audience could be held if the entertainments were twice as long.  Mrs. Caveny, who has a charming voice, accompanies her husband in some of his sketches, and her singing of the Old Kentucky Home, while Mr. Caveny produces the representation of it in chalk, made a hit.  It was a delightful program.


The Lyceum Review, September, 1902, Rochester, N. Y.
—J. Franklin Caveny is the most original and satisfactory chalk-talk performer before the American public.  To deft fingers and the gift of monologue, he adds real merit as an artist.  His pictures are charming, while the wholesome blending of sense and nonsense in his work lends pleasing variety to the program.


The Austin (Tex.) Morning Statesman
— A large and cultured audience greeted the famous entertainer last night and was exceedingly well pleased.


Beloit (Wis.) Daily News
— Prof. Caveny added another to his list of triumphs, for he completely captured Beloit people by his unique ways, and sharp, witty speeches.


Springfield (Mass.) Republican
— Splendid oratory.  His work is a revelation.


Chicago Tribune
— Caveny's chalk-talk was grand.  His delineation is superb.  He is a genius.


Brookings Individual, (Brookings, S. D.)
—J. Franklin Caveny pleased the audience most.  His work was not far short of marvelous.


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Nashville (Tenn.) American
— A large and well pleased audience was present at the Tabernacle last evening to see J. Franklin Caveny in rapid-fire cartooning, to the accompaniment of chalk-talk of anecdote, allusion and explanatory reference.  * * He starts some well known street type, and before finishing evolves a half dozen others, winding up, possibly, with a Gibson girl, and frequently telling an entire story in the development of some life study or design.  Several very effective landscapes were depicted in but a few hurried strokes.  His Watch on the Rhine, which he turned into a characteristic African face enshrined in a watermelon, was among his best pieces in a lighter vein, while his character delineations of Booth in various Shakespearean parts was his best serious work.


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J. Franklin Caveny Clay Modeler

Cincinnati Enquirer
— His caricatures were loudly applauded.


The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Ore.
— Mr. Caveny made a decided hit.


The Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer
— Mr. Caveny received unqualified approval.


Battle Creek (Mich.) Sunday Record
— Caveny proved one of the best performers ever seen here.


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Hamilton (Ont). Herald
— J. Franklin Caveny appeared before the audience and entertained them highly; in fact, he had to double his program because of encores.


The Daily Journal (Niagara Falls, N. Y.)
— J. Franklin Caveny has but few equals, and no peers as a crayon artist.  He did some caricature work which, though laughable, was of a very high order of merit.


Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye
— Mr. Caveny is a very clever as well as rapid working cartoonist, and his sketches with running comments are very interestin.  In transforming colored landscapes and marines, he was very ingenious.


North Adams (Mass.) Transcript
— The star of the course was J. Franklin Caveny, and he pleased the audience greatly.


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Watertown (S. Dak.) Tribune
— J. Franklin Caveny, the crayon artist and lecturer, is an artist of rare ability.  His sketches are wonders of revelation as one scene is rapidly colored from another.


Macon (Ga). News
— J. Franklin Caveny's chalk-talk was a clever and unique entertainment.  Mr. Caveny certainly demonstates that he is a wonder with the chalk.  He is certainly the peer of any artist-lecturer who has ever appeared in Macon.


Daily Herald (LaPorte, Ind.)
— J. Franklin Caveny gave a most pleasing entertainment at the Methodist Church last night.  His caricatures were fine.  His winter scene landscape was generously applauded.  His humorous sketches and magical transformations captured the audience.  Everbody was delighted.


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The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal
— Mr. Caveny is an artist in every sense of the word.


The Dallas (Tex.) Times-Herald
— He is an artist in voice and action as well as with the crayon.


Grand Island (Neb.) Independent
— The work of Caveny was the best ever seen by the audience, and the applause given was most flatteringly vigorous.


Senator La Follette
— A delightful entertainment.


Otis Skinner
— Dainty, poetic, eloquent.


Opie Read
— Beautiful and inspiring.


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