Maud Ballington Booth

              LECTURE TOUR OF
Maud Ballington Booth

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UNDER EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT
SLAYTON LYCEUM BUREAU

H. L. SLAYTON, President   CHAS. L. WAGNER, Secretary
WENDELL SLAYTON, Treasurer

STEINWAY HALL CHICAGO



Maud Ballington Booth
IN ANNOUNCING the exclusive management of Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, we offer to Lecture Course Committees not only a celebrity whose name is a household word, but also an orator whose natural eloquence has gained for her a prominent place among Lyceum stars.

A prominent Eastern manager has recently said of her: Mrs. Booth is the only woman orator of the decade whom the public will turn out and pay to hear.  Why?  First of all, she is the ablest woman orator in America.  Her cause is the most worthy.  She is probably the most beloved woman in the land; certainly she is the most attractive of all women speakers.  She has fire and magnetism—gifts of the highest oratorical order, sustained and animated by deep conviction, high purpose, and burning earnestness.  These great essentials are of paramount importance to success on the platform.

Mrs. Booth's season will be limited to fifty nights.  She gives every cent of her money to further the work of prison reform.  This is her only reason for appearing before the public.



SUBJECTS

Lights and Shadows of Prison Life
Prison Reform
A Heart Story
The Work of the American Volunteers
Woman's Side of the Criminal Problem



Lights of Childland

By MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH.  Illustrated by Antoinette Farnsworth Drew. 8vo. $1.35 net

These stories are for the rainy afternoon, for the fireside, and for bedtime.  They are an evidence of the familiarity of the author with the hearts of children.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York   London




It has often been asked, Why do you not print press notices of Mrs. Booth?  We would not know where to begin, and certainly not where to end.  Her notices, and she has never had one single adverse criticism, would fill a book as large as Webster's Dictionary.  No other woman before the world has been so cordially received by the press, both in her lecture work and in her prison work, as has Mrs. Booth.  And why print press notices?  She is known and has been heard, and her beautiful voice with its message of love and good will to all men has been borne around the entire world, and she is rightfully called the most loved woman in the land.

As an orator and a lecturer, she has received the highest praise in the finest Lyceum courses in the land, and with a very few exceptions, on account of illness, has never lost a date booked by her manager.  Every season the Bureau refuses enough dates to fill up the next season, and our list is always larger than she can possibly fill.  Mrs. Booth commands the highest price ever paid a woman lecturer in this country, and the money thus earned goes to support her two Hope Halls, homes for paroled and discharged prisoners.  This is her only reason for coming before the public, and the public has been most willing to hear her and to help her cause.  She has drawn the largest audiences of any lecturer in America, and therefore deserves the largest price, judged from a purely business standpoint.  Mrs. Booth's offices are in New York City; her home up in the Orange Mountains at Montclair, N. J., where she lives with her husband, Commander Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America.  They have two children, Charles and Theodora.

Charles L. Wagner is Mrs. Booth's personal business representative and arranges all her tours.  Address Steinway Hall, Chicago.



Sleepy-Time Stories.  By MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH.  With introduction by Chauncey M. Depew.  With 17 full-page illustrations by Maud Humphrey.  12mo. $1.50.

To the children whom she loves Mrs. Booth tells charming stories about birds, animals and flowers, adorned with Miss Humphrey's dainty pictures, and the result is a book that will delight many little ones.—Athenœum

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York   London





A Late Photo of Mrs. Booth by Rockwood


Rockwood N.Y. copyr. 1901.
Msc150 Box31
HB

Hollister Brothers Engravers & Printers Chicago