Booth Lowrey

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BOOTH LOWREY
Under direction of
THE DIXIE LYCEUM BUREAU
M. C. TURNER, Mgr.
510 Wilson Bldg., Dallas, Texas


A Humorist who is not coarse;
A Satirist who is not crude;
A Scientist who is not tedious;
An Orator who is not Sophomoric.



BOOTH LOWREY

SUBJECTS

Simon Says Wig-Wag
Tolerably Good People
The Fountain of Youth
Black Sunshine
Undeveloped People



Chautauqua Morning Lectures
A series of six vital lectures on Physical Education



Sunday Lectures

How Daniel Became President
Undeveloped People



The Blue Mountain Philosopher

Booth Lowrey has one great fault.  He doesn't invoice himself at first sitting.  Why, drat him, each day he grows on your hands.  Each day he flashes a light from a new facet.  He could furnish an entire Chautauqua program himself.  Booth Lowrey began his career as a lawyer down south.  The son of a confederate general he was elaborately polished in college and came forth with so little vitality that the doctor said Young man, you'll never live to enter your profession.  Go home and plan the obsequies.  This was splendid advice for it aroused his contrariness.  He thereupon had one great purpose—to fool the doctor.  He studied living as a fine art.  Now he is near fifty, a sprightly lad, whose photos slander him into a nice old man with silver lamber-quins.  His chest spreads seven inches at a full breath, and altogether he is about the most symmetrical mental, moral and physical animal one can meet.  Booth Lowrey is a platform condiment, and more.  There are few men who are so absolutely free, and have so graceful a stage presence.  There are few who can so dominate an audience.  He always awaits for his audience, never prances off ahead of it, dodges it, or lets it worry him.  He looks it squarely between the eyes, shakes its hand, and treats it like an old friend.  He works so easily, never straining himself nor the audience, but making climaxes that shatter things just the same.  He cracks a joke and perchance the audience misses it.  He just waits with a smile until the joke soaks in, and then laughs with the crowd.  Most platform men get mad and runaway.  He is as impertinent as Cook's most impertinent poems; in fact he is a rare blend of audacity, modesty, humor and philosophy that never grows stale, and the Lyceum has a place for a hundred Booth Lowreys.—
Ralph Parlette, in Lyceumite and Talent.


From New York Star.
—For over an hour the audience sat in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium last evening, entirely oblivious to all save Booth Lowrey and his mingled wit and wisdom, his humor, pathos and satire.  If there was ever a lecturer who found his way into the hearts of a Jamestown audience, it was Booth Lowrey and his Simon Says Wig-Wag.  Booth Lowrey has absorbed all the humor and pathos of the South, and has blended them into delicate shadings that lighten the heart and leave it blithe and free, not oppressed by the sorrows nor wrought to too high a pitch by humor.





251 LECTURES IN 20 TOWNS
EVERY ONE A BONA FIDE, ENGAGEMENT
In Mr. Lowrey's Native State (Mississippi) He Has Been Called the Second, Third and Fourth Time to More Than 100 Towns

There are 20 towns in that state in which he has given an aggregate of 251 lectures.

From September 17 to December 14, 1906, Mr. Lowrey gave 64 lectures 39 of which were return engagements.



A Rare Tribute
Booth Lowrey gave a course of ten lectures at the Hot Springs Chautauqua on Education, Physical and Metaphysical.  As manager of Chautauquas for fourteen years I have never heard his equal.

Mr. Lowrey's style is very pleasing and attractive; his manner of delivery is unexcelled and while his lectures are highly scientific, a vein of inimitable humor like a golden thread runs through the entire course.  His popular lectures delivered in our assembly are gems of literary beauty; in this role he is a power with but few equals.  He thrills, entertains and edifies.  Back of the lecture, and that which gives it force, is a great big loving heart that always throbs in the deepest sympathy and love for humanity.  He has been a divine benediction to our Chautauqua.

Very truly,
HOMER T. WILSON,
Chancellor
Oklahoma Christian University, Hot Springs, Ark., July, 1909.

Rev. E. S. Baker, Director of the Chautauqua at Jackson, Tenn., says: Booth Lowrey is a whole Chautauqua within itself.  In Popular Lectures he is a humorist and satirist of the highest type.  His Educational Lectures are so full of good humor and startling philosophy that they quickly become the talk of the town.



From The Press

Daily Sentinel, (Fayetteville, Ark.)
—Booth Lowrey's Lecture, Tolerably Good People was undoubtedly the best on the University Course this season.


The Record, (Naples, New York.)
—He combines in full proportions, the orator, the poet, the wit and the impersonator and, though disclaiming the honor, is a good deal of a statesman.


The Daily Whig, (Jackson, Tennessee.)
—Booth Lowrey is a king among men, in body, mind and soul.  Perhaps the most striking characteristic in his personality is the utter abhorrence of shams in any guise or fashion.  For one hour we responded to the touch of a master-hand and we did not care whether the tears in our eyes were from laughing until we cried, or crying until we laughed.  Though fully appreciating him as a humorist, it seems his greatest achievement is in the pathetic and dramatic productions that have marked him as one of the gifted authors of the South.




SKETCHES

JAMESTOWN (N. Y.) STAR COURSE
Gentlemen:—It is not an infrequent happening that we have talent some to us which proves partially or altogether unsatisfactory.  At such times I either observe an unbroken silence or freely criticise them.  This depends upon the degree of their inefficiency.  Booth Lowrey, the lecturer who came to us from your Bureau, was a great success.  He is eloquent, logical and always instructive.  His humor is delightful, his illustrations excellent, and above all he has a noble moral earnestness for the high things.  He will always be welcome on our platform.

Yours sincerely,
C. N. CHASE, General Secretary.



UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
(Dr. C. H. Brough in Personal Letter.)
In the opinion of the lecture-going public, your Simon Says Wig-Wag was the hit of the course so far.  You were greeted with the largest audience of the season.



HON. S. A. MYNDERS
(State Superintendent of Education, Tenn.)
If Booth Lowrey has a superior on the platform, I have never heard him.




THE CLARION APPEAL (Bastrop, Louisiana.)
At the very outset Mr. Lowrey captured every person in the large audience; and he did it with such clever strategy, and incomparable artfulness, that every captive was a willing prisoner.  He is a charming, captivating speaker, and he left here with the praise of his name upon everybody's tongue.



GEORGETOWN, KY.—COLLEGE COURSE
(Prof. S. J. Pulliam, of Georgetown College, in Letter to the Bureau)
Lowrey is simply great.  We have never had a man who pleased our pupils as much as Lowrey.  I want him on our course again next season.




In The Superlative Degree
The following letters are from Committees to the Bureaus.

Shelby, Michigan, March 7th, 1910.

Mutual Lyceum Bureau, Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sirs:—The lecture last Saturday evening by Booth Lowrey, title Simon Says Wig-Wag, was the greatest of its kind ever delivered here.  Mr. Lowrey is simply a master of his chosen work.  The Opera House was packed, and to say that he was enthusiastically received is stating it mildly.

Yours very truly,
E. A. SOUTER, (Attorney.)

Cameron, West Va., March 15th, 1911.

Coit Lyceum Bureau, Cleveland, Ohio.

Gentlemen:—Booth Lowrey gave our large audience the treat of the season in Simon Says Wig-Wag.  Enlivened by wit, he gave wisdom; under the garb of fun he gave facts.  Seldom is heard such a mixture of instruction and entertainment.  The people were enthusiastic in their praise.

Very truly,
H. W. McDOWELL, (Supt. Schools.)

Payne, Ohio, Jan. 17th, 1912.

Coit Lyceum Bureau, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dear Sir:—Booth Lowrey filled a return date at our place last evening with Tolerably Good People.  He was the choice of our attractions last year, and made GOOD again.  The door receipts last evening were 40 per cent better than ever before.  Mr. Lowrey cannot come to Payne too often.  I have been asked by many of our most prominent people, already, to try to get him back next year.

Very respectfully yours,
F. THOMAS KNERR, (Sec. Com.)

Cordele, Ga., Nov. 8, 1911.

The Alkahest, Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Mr. Bridges:—Booth Lowrey is superb.  I doubt whether he has a superior on the platform in America.  This is a broad statement, but I am weighing my words.  His humour is natural his wit is keen, but kind and wholesome.  It cuts without wounding.

JASON SCARBORO, (Supt. Schools.)