Margaret Stahl

              1912

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Margaret Stahl

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MARGARET STAHL
Foreword
MARGARET STAHL occupies an enviable position on the American platform today.  Attractive and absolutely free from mannerism and affectation, Miss Stahl's remarkable success is due no less to her ability than to her personality, which is indefinably charming.  By nature, training and experience she is ably fitted to portray humanity in all its varied phases.  Possessed of a mind that can keenly discern the author's purpose, a heart capable of deepest feeling and the ability to make live, apparently without effort, one character after another, it is not surprising that audiences are swayed by the magic of her art.

There is an atmosphere about her work that is healthful, helpful and invigorating.  Again and again committees re-engage her, often not waiting for the recall until the following season, and there is no stronger proof of artistic worth than this.

Miss Stahl's diction is excellent and her clear, rich voice runs the gamut in the expression of strong emotion, sparkling comedy and delicate pathos.

Her programs are varied and she is constantly adding to her already extensive repertoire, which embraces popular and classic Plays, especially written Monologues and Impersonations, as well as French, Japanese, Cockney, Italian, Negro and Irish Character Studies, all of which are presented with the sure touch of an artist, whose every effort rings true.



A Few Return Date Cities
The following are a few of the cities in which Miss Stahl has been booked during the last three seasons:



Cleveland, O.
13 times


Alliance, O.
9 "


Salamanca, N. Y.
4 "


Bridgeton, N. J.
3 "


Chicago, Ill.
2 "


New Hope, Pa.
3 "


Parkesburg, Pa.
2 "


Mt. Lake Park, Md.
2 "


Bethesda, O.
2 "


Cadiz, O.
3 "


Fremont, O.
5 "


Springfield, O.
4 times


Philadelphia, Pa.
14 "


Scio, O.
4 "


Camden, N. J.
3 "


Erie, Pa.
2 "


McKeesport, Pa.
5 "


Carlisle, Pa.
2 "


Waynesburg, Pa.
2 "


Sharon, Pa.
2 "


Attica, Ind.
4 "


Sellersville, Pa.
2 "


Monteagle, Tenn.
8 times


Washington Grove, Md.
2 "


Warren, O.
2 "


Salem, N. J.
2 "


Lutherville, Md.
2 "


Elizabethtown, Pa.
2 "


Pennington, N. J.
2 "


Bay View, Mich
3 "


Mansfield, O.
2 "


Wooster, O.
2 "


Glen Rock, Pa.
2 "



Incentives come from the soul's self: the rest avail not.




READER OF PLAYS
Programs
During the coming season Miss Stahl will present:


The Servant in the House
By Charles Rann Kennedy.


It is a page from life itself, revealing the brotherhood of man as a real breathing thing.  It is a great drama, akin to all beautiful and permanent things.—
New York Times.


In 'The Servant in the House,' Margaret Stahl last night proved herself the greatest reader of plays that has ever appeared in this city.—
Springfield, Ohio, Daily News.



The Dawn of a To-morrow
Written by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Dramatized for Miss Eleanor Robson.

I wish I could preach from the pulpit as great a lesson as the 'Dawn of a Tomorrow' teaches.

CHARLES F. AKED, D. D.



Strongheart
The Successful Comedy Drama Written by William Cecil DeMille, and Made Famous by Robert Edeson.

Margaret Stahl's rendition of 'Strongheart' before our student body, who, because they are Indians, would naturally be the keenest kind of critics, was superb.  She held the audience spellbound from beginning to end.  Miss Stahl makes an attractive figure on the stage, and has made herself a consummate master of her art.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, M. Friedman, Superintendent, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.



Every Woman
By Walter Browne.

The Greatest Modern Morality Play. (In Preparation)

Be merciful, be just, be fair to every woman, everywhere.  Her faults are many.  Nobody's to blame.



Madam Butterfly
The Japanese Masterpiece of John Luther Long.


Margaret Stahl's 'Madam Butterfly' is the work of a genius.—
Canton, Ill., Daily Register.



The Mother
Written by Norman Duncan.

A story of great dramatic strength, showing the wonderful depth of mother-love, and the purifying influence of a child's faith and innocence.  The scenes are laid in the slum district, the characters are vital and convincing, the situations tragically dramatic, while the finale is a glorious revelation of Motherhood.


'The Mother' is a soul study: a mother's love for her son, a son's love for his mother.  It is a story which is almost a tragedy, but becomes a benediction.—
Buffalo Express.



Enoch Arden
By Lord Alfred Tennyson.

In her beautiful and artistic interpretation of Enoch Arden, Margaret Stahl is said to have no equal on the American platform.



The Lottery Man
A four-act comedy by Rider Johnson Young.  A Broadway Success.



The Man from Home
A Four-act Comedy by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.

The Success of the Century, played seventy weeks in New York, fifty-seven weeks in Chicago, twenty-seven weeks in Boston, fifteen weeks in Philadelphia, and is now touring the country.





MARGARET STAHL
Comments Regarding Her Work From Authoritative Sources
Salamanca, N. Y.

Our committee is very glad of an opportunity to express their admiration for Miss Stahl.  In the three engagements she filled in Salamanca, she won the hearts of her hearers by her sweet personality and charming manner.  Each of her appearances added to her popularity and greatly increased, if possible, the admiration our people had for her and her work.  That we may some time have the pleasure of again hearing Miss Stahl in Salamanca is the wish of her many friends and admirers.

MRS. C. H. DELISLE.

Philadelphia, Pa.

We have been conducting a large entertainment course for seventeen years, and in all of that time have never had any attraction that gave better satisfaction than did Margaret Stahl, in her interpretation of Strongheart.  Her presentation of the story was artistic.

CHARLES C. KINNEY, Chairman Entertainment Committee, P. R. R., Y. M. C. A.

Reading, Pa.

We remember with pleasure the recital given by Margaret Stahl.  We have been having Star courses for fifteen years and she, unquestionably, is among the very best attractions we have had.  In fact, we have had none better.  Her work, in interpreting the emotions, is about all that human beings could expect.  Reading swears by Miss Margaret Stahl.

J. H. EDWARDS, Sec'y Y. M. C. A.

Chambersburg, Pa.

It gives me great pleasure to thank you most cordially for your excellent rendering of Strongheart when you were present with us the past year.  We appreciated very much the strength, the beauty and the true artistic quality of your interpretation.  We are glad to say that your entertainment has been one of the most acceptable that it has been our fortune to have upon our lists.

M. H. REASER, President Wilson College.

Trenton, N. J.

Margaret Stahl read Strongheart in our Association course and it was received with great enthusiasm.  I am sure that our course patrons would vote unanimously that Miss Stahl's work was the best of its kind ever seen in Association Hall.

FRANCIS P. LAMPHEAR, General Secretary, Y. M. C. A.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Permit me to express my appreciation of the pleasure your recital gave our members.  The association is composed entirely of teachers and when I tell you that I heard nothing but praise of the evening, you should feel complimented, for teachers are nothing, if not critical.

R. G. McLAUGHLING, Philadelphia Teachers' Club.

Monteagle, Tenn., Chautauqua

Margaret Stahl was on the Monteagle Chautauqua program for the season 1910 and also for 1911, giving four readings at each engagement.  I cannot better express the impression that she made than by simply saying that her work for both years was entirely satisfactory to the management and to the public.  In short—she was a success.

ALLEN G. HALL, Superintendent Monteagle Assembly.



Springville, N. Y.

Margaret Stahl gave The Servant in the House, holding the large audience in almost breathless attention during the entire story.  Miss Stahl has a noble presence, a pleasing voice, is a good interpreter of the author's intent, and her ability to change from one personality to another is remarkable.—
Journal and Herald.



Bellefontaine, Ohio

Margaret Stahl, reader at the Auditorium Wednesday evening, who gave The Servant in the House, was undoubtedly the biggest success ever brought here by the Art Recital Association.  To go still further, she pleased and satisfied about everybody and she promoted the real theme of morality on which the book is built—the furtherance of the brotherhood of man.—
Daily Examiner.

Miss Stahl Has Been Engaged to Give Two Programs in July, 1912, at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N. Y.

The Howard-Meyer-Webb Co. Cleveland. O.





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