Nellie Edith Stebleton, reader: Helen Janet Smith, whistler

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RECITALS
OCT 16 1914
H. P. HARRISON
L. B. CROTTY
J. P. YOUNG
A. M. WEISKOPF
W. F. McCLURE
ALFRED WILLIAMS
A. M. 
W. A. COLLEDGE
MUSICAL BUREAU
Nellie Edith Stebleton
READER
Helen Janet Smith
WHISTLER

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Address MISS STEBBLETON, Springfield Conservatory of Music, Cor. Spring and Charles Sts., Springfield, Illinois.

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TRADES UNION LABEL COUNCIL




Nellie Edith Stebbleton and Helen Janet Smith, instructors of their arts at the Springfield Conservatory of Music, announce for the season the following Literary and Musical Interpretations:



The Prince Chap,}
Edwark Peple


Littlest Rebel}



Madame Butterfly,}
John Luthcr Long


Cherry Blossoms}



The Selfish Giant,}



The Happy Prince,}



The Nightingale and The Rose}
Oscar Wilde—Liza Lehmann


Song of The Birch
Alfred Hiles Bergen


Sister Beatrice
Maurice Maeterlink


The Wheels of Time
Barclay



Shakesperian Scenes—Children's Stories—Monologues—and others.



Birds and The Brook
Stults


Laughing Blossoms
Jorda


Amoureuse
Berger


Love and Roses
Rolfe


Dent de L'ion
Vimpheimer


Evening Star
Wagner


Flower Song (from Faust)
Gounod


The Palms
Faure


Melody in F
Rubenstein


Wm. Pen D'Armour
Silesu


Mocking Bird
Hawthorne



AND OTHERS




A Few Testimonials and Press Notices

Miss Stebleton is a young lady of much culture and refinement.  Her education has been of a very high order, she is a graduate of the School of Expression of the Chicago Musical College.  As a reader she has gained great prominence, and as a teacher of both Physical Culture and the Art of Expression, she has obtained most excellent results, as to which her many pupils at the conservatory will gratefully attest.
SPRINGFIELD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.


MISS STEBLETON—Reader.
Whenever the above announcement appears on the bulletin board, there is an unusual wave of excitement and pleasurable anticipation among the students.

One of the things that makes for success on the dramatic stage is personal attractiveness, and when talent and serious purpose are added the result is extremely satisfying.  In all these respects Miss Stebleton has been most generously endowed.

VERITAS—SACRED HEART ACADEMY.

Miss Stebleton is a young woman of intelligence and unusual personal charm.  I take great pleasure in reccommending her as a platform reader and teacher of the spoken word.

LETITIA V. BARNUM.



DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION
Chicago Musical Conservatory.

I take great pleasure in commending Miss Stebleton as a reader of unusual ability.  Gracious manner, distinct articulation, pleasing voice, and her simple unaffected naturalness, combine to make her readings very entertaining.

EUCLID B. ROGERS—Lecturer.


Miss Stebleton gave a dramatic recital to a large audience in Ferguson Hall, and her work was excellent.  Gracefully, understandingly she gave her selections and won the admiration of the entire audience.  Covering a wide range of subjects her versatility was splendidly manifest.
ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER.


Helen Janet Smith during several years residence in Chicago studied under the best tutors and masters specializing in the arts of whistling and dancing and is herself an instructor of these.  She has aimed to develop the whistling voice from a strictly artistic standpoint and has excited the admiration of large audiences in Chicago, Springfield and other Illinois cities.
SPRINGFIELD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.


Helen Janet Smith gave several whistling selections at a charming Children's party at the Conservatory of Music.  Her accomplishments in this direction are remarkable.  Her beautiful work delighted the children.  She studied under Robert Chisholm Bain and Leslie Groff, in Chicago.
ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER.