Electra Platt: comedienne soprano musician & writer

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Electra Platt
Comedienne   Soprano   Musician & Writer



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VERNON STONE and ELECTRA PLATT offer an Entertainment, unsurpassed for assorted diversions.

Musical features, interspersed with a rapid fire of Monologue, Dialogue, Philosophy and Patter, of which Miss Platt is the author, leave the audience exhausted from vivacious fun making. They cheerfully admit they make no effort to educate or reform, but the brief talk on the value of good cheer is a little gem, tucked in among the sparkling shafts of wit.

There is a lurking idea in the minds of some solemnities that laughter is cheap, common and unworthy, but laughter is Nature's great unwinder.

The mainspring of our daily life is so tightly wound that we need relief from the tension.

Vernon Stone, a first cousin of Fred Stone, is a musician, description of whom sets us seeking bigger and better phrases.  His mastery of a dozen or more instruments is amazing, and to these he adds Musical Saws, Rubber Balloons and other novelties of his own invention, producing the most exquisite tone and effects.

Miss Platt announces that, like the new models of autos, she has changed all her lines this season and made dazzling improvements.

One member of the audience approached a Committeeman toward the close of their program with the query: What'll it cost, Bill, to keep 'em going all night?

This unusual pair will carry you thru a full evening of unabated interest and wholesome jollity—

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.



VERNON STONE and ELECTRA PLATT Royal Entertainers to His Majesty THE AMERICAN CITIZEN
There have been so many comments on the wonderful performance of VERNON STONE and ELECTRA PLATT that we are going to ask you to extend to them, personally, the thanks of the Committee for their splendid work, which really made this banquet one of our best parties in years.

Although we expected a great deal from these people, they were far better than was ever anticipated.

Several stated afterward that there were times during the performance that they wished Electra Platt would keep still for a minute or two, so that they could draw a breath and pull themselves together.

Others did not know whether they derived more enjoyment from listening to her, than they did from watching the rest of the audience in hysterics.

—P. W. R., Thule Lodge, No. 239, I.O.O.F., Worcester, Mass.




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Next was the appearance of Vernon Stone and Electra Platt, and here's where words fail us.

Laughter—more laughter, and still more laughter.

Folks just doubled up with merriment; others, with tears running down their cheeks.

Some, who tried to retain their dignity, finally gave way unrestrainedly.

As for us, if we dared scream out, we probably would have done it, but by 'using our noodle' we managed to keep our enjoyment within bounds.

Mr. Stone's 'musical instruments' created much merriment, as well as much wonderment, and these artists were so enlivening, one felt like wraping them up and taking them home to have around on Blue Mondays and Rent days.—C. A. C.



To provide for the happiness of others, to dispense good cheer generously, is the greatest of all pleasures, and we hope our melody and humor will win your approval, invite a smile now and then, and leave a train of refreshing thoughts to help make this world a better place to live in.

Yours, for the eradication of gloom,
VERNON STONE, ELECTRA PLATT, and OUIJA.




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An Ode
To My Favorite Comedienne and Her Collaborator Upon Receipt of Their Hilarious Opus, RAILINGS


All hail to thee, Electra Platt!
Thou, spouse of Vernon Stone!
Eve may have merely been a Rib,
But you're all Funny-bone!
When you were named, I bet your folks
Were stumped for quite a bit;
They could have called you just I. E.,
(For i. e. means To Wit).
Instead Electra was decreed—
You say your stuff is charged;
If so, it's charged with jollity
And every life enlarged.
A live wire you, yea more than that,
A good cheer dynamo!
Electrifying people's joys!
Electrocuting woe!
As time went on, I see you found
Too much to do alone:
You worked so hard at kidding folks
You fin'lly turned to STONE!
And now you two are one, and say,
Believe me, you're a team!
Your every word's mirth's battle cry!
Your every move's a scream!
I've had hysterics ever since
I heard you—that's my failings;
And though I laugh myself to death,
I THANK YOU FOR THEM, RAILINGS.

—Leo S. Rosencrans.



Mr. Stone is the originator of all the mechanical effects, Radio Fiddle and Stunt Instruments used and plays the following:

VIOLIN (not Stradivarius)
BANJO (Vega)
SAXOPHONE (Buescher)
PIANO ACCORDION (Iorio)
MANDOLIN
GUITAR (Martin)
CELLO
MUSICAL SAW (Atkins)
RADIO FIDDLE (It Broadcasts)
RUBBER BALLOON
TIRE PUMP
AUTO TIRE TUBE
RIFLE
FUNNEL (Woolworth)
TRICK CIGAR BOX


Miss Platt and Mr. Stone may be engaged for a Short Act or a Full Evening Entertainment




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MANAGEMENT
VERNON STONE
35 WHITEHOUSE AVE.
ROOSEVELT, N. Y.

Phone FREEPORT 4831



TWO OF NEW YORK CITY'S MOST POPULAR ENTERTAINERS AND SIX MILLION FOREIGNERS CAN'T BE WRONG




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Vernon Stone
THE MUSIC MASTER

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Personal Comments

Gives The Straight Goods
GEO. D. HAMILTON, Pres. Becker Co. Agr. Ass'n, Detroit, Minn.:—The merchants of Detroit were greatly pleased with your lecture given at the Chautauqua.  * * * The business men of Detroit have asked me to write you to see if we can get you to repeat the lecture, or make a similar talk at our county fair, Sept. 24. * * * We are all agreed that your talk along the line of supporting the home town is the most convincing we have ever heard.  You certainly give the straight goods.  (Mr. Plattenburg returned to Detroit as requested and repeated the same lecture he gave on Chautauqua.)



Prospered In The Home Town
J. E. MARIETTA, Real Estate Agent, Vinton, Iowa:—I want to thank you personally for your talk before our Commercial Club.  It correctly portrayed my past business experience.  When I first came to Vinton, working the first year for $75, board and washing, I had associates all of whom later drifted to the city, or wandered to strange lands seeking as it were false gods, and everyone of them urged the same course for me.  But I remained.  Today I have 400 acres of land near Vinton, a comfortable home, am an officer in three financial organizations, have had all these years a happy business and social life, while all my young associates are today practically without means.  * * * I want to especially thank you for your remarks regarding buying at home.  I have at all times been an earnest advocate of that principal.



Made Friends With The Kids
D. WARD KING, in Lyceum Magazine:—When Plattenburg first lectured in our town a year ago I didn't hear him, but I heard about him the rest of the year.  I went to hear him on his return last night, and heard a great plea for service instead of selfishness, and saw him insinuate himself into our hearts without apparent effort, saw him make friends with the kids on the front row, and hold their attention an hour and a half.  He did this without an exhibition of rhetoric or garland-weaving, tho there were flashes that showed his proficiency at both.



Delivered In A Telling Way
O. O. SMITH, D. D., Pastor First Congregational Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa:—The lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, is packed full of interesting and instructive thoughts.  It is well seasoned with humor and delivered in a telling way.  It is one of the strongest lectures it has been my pleasure to listen to and will make good anywhere.



Wonderful Descriptive Power
H. A. RODEE, Manager Ruskin Park Chautauqua, Forestburg, S. D.:—Charles Howard Plattenburg is a lecturer of the first rank.  His mind is analytical, his descriptive powers are wonderful, and his style of speaking is most fascinating.  His lectures are built around great principles, and instruct those who hear them.



Recent Press Notices

Independent, Richwood, W. Va.:
—At each lecture Mr. Plattenburg held the audience spellbound for an hour and a half, during which time they listened to his masterful lectures, Worms Beneath the Bark, Here and There, Now and Then.  As an orator he is great.  Behind his smiles and laughs, there are many forcible truths and many vivid object lessons that make an impression that should last through life.  Mr. Plattenburg has a pleasing personality and is a splendid entertainer.


Lexington, Mo., Intelligencer:
—His speaking is wonderful, almost phenomenal.  His mind, almost without effort, seizes the important parts of his subject, which he presents, with many appropriate illustrations to his auditors.  His spartan-like convictions cause him to speak with convincing force, interest and zeal.  His easy, rapid and broad classifications enable him to speak without being tedious and tiresome to his auditors.


Middleberg, Ind., Independent:
—Those who heard the lecture by Plattenburg last Friday night are unanimous in attesting to its cleverness and eloquence and the power of thought and presentation.  His sallies of wit and touches of penetrating humor in illustration of the significant points of his lecture sufficed to stamp more indelibly the necessity for right ideals and unselfish living.


Farmington, Iowa, News:
— C. H. Plattenburg took his audience by storm.  He is a little fellow, but he is bigger than he looks when he gets turned loose.  He is an optimist who finds the best in conditions some people blame the most.  He is keen, witty, bubbling over with mirth, but every sentence he utters has a meaning and he strikes sledge hammer blows at the evils underneath the bark of our body politic.  His lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, strikes hard at the follies of modern life.




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ESTABLISHED SINCE 1868

JAMES REDPATH
FOUNDER OF THE LYCEUM