George Crichton Miln: of London, England

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George Crichton Miln
OF LONDON, ENGLAND
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GEORGE CRICHTON MILN

Introductory
WE announce with unqualified gratification that we have arranged with Mr. Miln to appear for a limited number of nights during the season of 1905–6.  When Mr. Miln occupied the pulpit of Unity Church, Chicago, as the successor of the Rev. Robert Collyer, he was recognized throughout the west as the most brilliant, fearless and forcible orator of the day.  His services were in constant demand, and wherever he spoke immense audiences crowded to hear him.  He was chosen by the City Council to deliver the official oration at the time of President Garfield's death, and his oration upon that occasion was universally acclaimed as a classic masterpiece of the very highest type of eloquence.  During the progress of his theatrical tour of the world, and as opportunity offered, Mr. Miln lectured to enthusiastic audiences in Australia, the Orient and Great Britain, and always sustained the splendid reputation which he had won in this country.  Mr. Miln is clear and simple in his style, and is endowed with the incomparable gift of personal magnetism.  He is known as a profound scholar, as a man fearless and convincing in his mental processes, and is, withal, possessed of a genial and delightful humor which banishes all thought of dreariness or strain in listening to him.  He is now in the very zenith of his physical and intellectual prowess, and is absolutely sure to prove an instant and popular success on the lecture platform.



Lecture Subjects
The Story of a Strolling Player

Being the Narrative of the Experiences of a Shakesperean Actor in all Parts of the World.

Mr. Miln has played the plays of Shakespeare in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan and Great Britain.  He will enliven this lecture by humorous and pathetic incidents from his own experience, and will embellish it by declaiming some of the most notable passages taken from the masterpieces of William Shakespeare.  The hearer will thus combine the pleasure of listening to an original and forceful orator with that of enjoying the utterance, by a distinguished actor, of many of the gems from the plays of Shakespeare.

Husbands and Wives or, The Humor and Pathos of Married Life.

In an age when marriage is treated lightly by many, it is refreshing to encounter a serious thinker who regards it as the base of the social fabric and the surest foundation of individual happiness.  The true relations which should subsist between husbands and wives, the humorous incidents arising from blundering ignorance, and the pathos created by willful neglect, with the many suggestive facets presented by this always fascinating subject, enable Mr. Miln to keep his audience intensely interested and amused.

Modern Statesmen and Statecraft of England and America.

This lecture will include descriptions of many of the leading statesmen of England and America, founded on personal acquaintance—will lucidly compare English and American legislative methods; and will broadly show that the ideals and aspirations of the great English-speaking races are identical and fraternal in purpose.  Mr. Miln has enjoyed peculiar facilities for the study of this subject, having formed personal acquaintance during his travels with many of the leading statesmen of the past quarter of a century.





GEORGE CRICHTON MILN

THE TIMES, Chicago
—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Geo. C. Miln delivered his lecture, Candles and Footlights, in Hooley's Theatre.  His utterances regarding the stage and pulpit were just and catholic in spirit, and were delivered with all that force and passion which have earned Mr. Miln fame as an orator.


DAILY CHRONICLE, London
—Mr. Miln was richly entitled to the ovation which greeted his splendid address.  It was exalted in tone, and to say that the manner was suited to the matter—the action to the word—is to praise his skill and power as an orator in the highest terms.


THE DAILY ARGUS, Melbourne
—Last night Mr. Miln laid aside the toga of Brutus and appeared before an immense audience in Her Majesty's Opera House as a lecturer.  This was Mr. Miln's first appearance as a platform speaker in Australia, and we do not hesitate to say that high as is his reputation as a tragedian, he rivalled that reputation as an orator.  His address was replete with clear and just analysis, and fairly bristled with epigrammatic references to the inconsistencies of those who thoughtlessly condemn the stage and the drama.  * * * Should Mr. Miln ever elect to retire from his chosen profession, he need not give two thoughts as to the choice of a career in which he will at once take front rank.  Such speakers as he is must always be royally welcome in a community which admires the beauties of clear thinking linked to graceful and powerful speaking.


THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Sydney, Australia
—The lecture was brilliant in thought and could not have been improved as to the good taste and force of its delivery.  It seems a pity that such a speaker is not more constantly engaged in original work—even though the mimic stage lost thereby a successful actor.


THE EVENING NEWS, Auckland, N. Z.
—Mr. George Crichton Miln last night delighted an audience which entirely filled the Opera House.  The public here has seen and applauded Mr. Miln as Hamlet, Othello, Macheth and Bertuccio.  Last night it greeted him with tremendous enthusiasm as a gifted and powerful orator speaking his own ideas.  What a career such an orator could achieve in the public life of this colony if he were content to abandon the stage for the forum.  We do not recall an occasion upon which a speaker has aroused a local audience to a higher pitch of enthusiasm.


THE INDIAN DAILY NEWS, Calcutta
—Mr. Geo. C. Miln delivered an eloquent and convincing lecture last night in the Corinthian Theatre.  The house was packed to the doors, and the subject was Shakespeare.  A large party was present from Government House, and a representative Anglo-Indian audience, besides several native princes and scholars lent eclat to the occasion.  The orator was evidently in love with his subject, and for two hours kept the immense audience intensely interested.


THE FREE PRESS, Hong Kong
—Mr. Geo. C. Miln concluded his visit to Hong Kong by a brilliant lecture before an audience which entirely filled the Town Hall.  The Governor and his staff were present, besides a large representation of the military and civil services.  Mr. Miln's treatment of his subject was scholarly and eloquent, and his graceful allusion to the cordiality of his welcome in this city was rewarded by hearty cheering, followed by the entire audience singing For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.  Miln should carry away only pleasant memories from China.


THE YOKOHAMA TIMES, Yokohama, Japan
—Mr. Miln has the distinction of being the first celebrated actor who has visited this country with a large and fully-equipped Shakesperian company.  Yesterday afternoon he gave a performance of Julius Caesar (himself playing Marc Antony) before an audience of over 3,000 Japanese, and last night he delivered a fascinating lecture before a large audience of Europeans.  On each occasion he scored an immediate and enviable success.  As a lecturer he is easy and graceful, illuminates his discourse with delicate touches of humor and at times rises to unequivocal distinction and power.


DAILY TELEGRAPH, London
—Mr. George C. Miln gave a magnificent illustration of the very highest oratorical ability.  His voice reached the remotest corners of St. James' Hall, and his performance was greeted with enthusiastic applause.


THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, New York
—Mr. George Crichton Miln responded to the toast of The Drama, at the Press Club banquet held last night at Delmonico's, and although the list of speakers contained many distinguished names, it is only just to say that his was the speech of the evening.  Mr. Miln has been absent all too long, and it is to be hoped that he will now remain in America to exercise the high talents which his travels have so manifestly enriched.


THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, Denver
—The Tabor Opera House was filled with an enthusiastic audience last night upon the occasion of Geo. C. Miln's lecture.  The stalls and boxes were occupied largely by those who had attended the theatre during the week to witness Miln's acting.  His reputation as an effective and eloquent speaker antedates his fame as an actor; and it is in no censorious spirit that we declare that as a speaker of his own thoughts Mr. Miln, in our judgment, not only reached greater heights than he has done as an actor, but seemed very much more at home.  At the conclusion of his lecture a magnificent floral offering, in shape of an enormous star, was handed to him from one of the boxes.  Was it a covert suggestion that he is a greater 'star' as a speaker than as an actor?  After the lecture Miln left on a special train to overtake his company.  A crowd of friends accompanied him to the depot and cheered him as the train left.





George Crichton Miln



THE STORY OF A STROLLING PLAYER
HUSBANDS AND WIVES, or The Humor and Pathos of Married Life
MODERN STATESMEN AND STATECRAFT

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