Dr. Sydney Wellington Landon: in his famous lecture-recitals

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Speaking Likenesses
OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE
MARK TWAIN LONGFELLOW
EMERSON THACKERAY
TENNYSON STEVENSON
F. HOPKINSON SMITH
VICTOR HUGO BILL NYE
RUDYARD KIPLING
ARTEMUS WARD
SAMUEL LOVER
BRET HARTE


Presented By
AMERICA'S PREMIER CHARACTERIST


Dr. Sydney Wellington Landon
In His Famous Lecture-Recitals

Character Studies of Great Literary Men

THE REDPATH BUREAU
1316 Kimball Bldg., Chicago




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SYDNEY LANDON
Lecture-Recitals

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Presenting Character Studies and Speaking Likenesses of GREAT LITERARY MEN

IN PREPARING his LECTURE-RECITALS Dr. Landon has performed a noteworthy service in behalf of English literature.  Through his interpretative art, men like POE, LONGFELLOW, TENNYSON, STEVENSON, BRET HARTE, HUGO, KIPLING, WHITMAN, THACKERAY, CARLYLE, RILEY, F. H. SMITH, BILL NYE, MARK TWAIN, ARTEMUS WARD, JOSH BILLINGS, live again.  He gives his audiences visualizations of these men which are startling in their approach to nature.  Realizing a demand for the best of literature properly interpreted, he not only brings you face to face with these Literary Celebrities but makes you know them better by giving each a living personality and quoting from their best known works.

Dr. Landon is nationally known for his characterizations of literary men and has appeared before approximately 6000 College, School and other audiences from coast to coast in the past 30 years.  The motion picture industry claimed his talent in a series of educational pictures and he has had a very successful radio career presenting Moments with Great Writers.

Many of the later writers, such as F. Hopkinson Smith, Mark Twain and James Whitcomb Riley, Dr. Landon knew personally.  Others, in both England and America, he has learned to know through visits to their former homes and libraries.  He has found that the only way to really know these celebrities and receive their inspiration is through personal contact or by studying their lifetime surroundings.  With this in mind he has interviewed relatives and close friends of Longfellow, Poe and others, securing intimate touches that are given realistic interpretation.


A few of the many important Institutions, Colleges and Universities, where Dr. Landon has appeared:


Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pittsburg Institute of Sciences and Art, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Watkins Institute, Nashville, Tenn.
Goodwyn Institute, Memphis, Tenn.
Twentieth Century Club, Detroit, Mich.
Public Forum, Bloomington, Ill.
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
A. & M. College, Stillwater, Okla.
Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.
University of Florida
Catholic Woman's Club, San Francisco, Calif.
Abilene Christian College, Texas
Oklahoma City University, Okla.
Colorado State College, Fort Collins, Colo.
Grinnell College, Iowa
North Dakota Agricultural College
University of Arkansas
University of Nevada
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin


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Universty of Maryland
Cornell University
St. Mary's College, Kansas
Penn State College
St. Joseph's College of Indiana
Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa.
Queens College, Charlotte, N. C.
Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.
Bucknell University, Pa.
De Pauw University, Indiana
University of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miami University, Ohio
Atlantic Union College, Mass.
Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pa.
Washington Missionary College, Washington, D. C.
State Teachers College, Plattsburg, N. Y.
State Teachers College, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Teachers Institutes, Scranton, Pa., Louisville, Ky., Ft. Wayne, Ind., Covington, Ky., Indianapolis, Ind., Pittsburg, Kas., Edmond, Okla., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Carlisle, Pa.