Mrs. Carl Thayer: dramatic reader and impersonator

              1913
MRS. CARL THAYER
Dramatic Reader and Impersonator

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
3136 Pleasant Avenue
Phone N. W. Colfax 4481



PRESENTING MRS. CARL THAYER,
Dramatic Reader and Impersonator.
Mrs. Thayer has had a successful and extensive platform experience and her work has the endorsement of the Extension Department of the University of Minnesota.



TESTIMONIALS
It gives me pleasure to recommend Mrs. Carl Thayer as a reader.  She has an easy, dignified stage presence and a sincerity of manner that enables her to hold the attention of her audience.  She has a strong, clear and resonant voice well adapted to variety of style.  Her repertoire is large and varied.—Marie Gjertsen-Fischer (Mrs. Carlo Fischer) Dramatic Reader and Instructor.

Mrs. Carl Thayer appeared in the Metropolitan Opera House on the Wednesday evening program during the annual convention of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs and proved herself a very able entertainer.  Perhaps one of the strongest tests of the power of an impersonator is to be placed on the same program with such well known speakers as President Geo.  Vincent, State University, and Dr. Chas. Mayo of world wide fame.  The two groups of recitations presented by Mrs. Thayer varied in character, calling for the expression of widely different emotions from the deepest of dramatic feeling to the lightest humor; all were rendered with the sure touch of the true artist and the audience showed its enthusiastic appreciation in its insistent demand for encores.  The selections were all given with piano accompaniament.  Mrs. Thayer's clear voice and perfect enunciation lending itself well to this popular type of interpretation.—Della M. Armstrong, Dramatic Critic and Editor of Official Organ Fifth District Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs.

Artists are sometimes born, sometimes created.  Mrs. Thayer was born with a strong artistic spirit.  With this gift cultivated and with her experience she is indeed one who captures and holds the hearts of her hearers.  Whether it pleases her to giver her audiences light humorous selections, soothing melodies or genuine tragedy, she so successfully imparts her feelings that her success is at once assured; her stage presence is attractive and she has a strong and beautiful personality.— Mrs. John Burns Robinson, Sec. Fifth District Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, 1912-14.   4751 Girard Ave. S., Minneapolis.

I have had the privilege of hearing Mrs. Carl Thayer read upon several occasions.  To me her chief charm is her naturalness; she is skilled in making her characters really live in the minds of those who hear her and her pleasing appearance adds to the delight of listening to her.  Her voice is clear, pleasant and very well controlled.—Mrs. Chas. M. Woodham, State Regent, D. of R.

It gives me pleasure to express my appreciation of Mrs. Carl Thayer as an interpreter of dramatic thought and feeling and especially do I recommend her recitations with musical accompaniament.  During an association of years I have always found her conscientious, efficient and dependable in the discharge of obligation.  Her splendid executive ability, training, talent and personality are bound to secure the success of any play or entertainment which she may manage.—Mrs. Franklyn Hynes, Pres. Authors Study Club, Pres. Pathfinder Club 1913-14, Minneapolis.




REPERTOIRE

ALL THE WELL KNOWN MUSICAL MELODRAMAS SUCH AS—


King Robert of Sicily

Music by Rossetti Cole


The Raven

Music by Max Heinrich


Brushwood

Music by Tirindelli


Enoch Arden

Music by Strauss


Happy Prince

Music by Lehman


Aux Italien

Music by Strauss



and others.






SPOKEN SONGS—


That Old Sweetheart of Mine

Music by Walter Howe Jones


Princess of the Morning

Music by Harriet Ware


The Last Waltz of Von Weber

Music by Von Weber


When Earth's Last Picture is Painted

Music by Leslie Harris



and others.






HUMOROUS MUSICAL RECITATIONS—

The Barber of Turin
A Little Con
When Birdie Commenced Her Delsarte
Sophie Sweethearts
I've Got a Pain in my Sawdust
and many others.



MODERN DRAMAS—

The Mallet's Masterpiece, author, People.
Prunella by Lawrence Housman and Granville Baker.



LECTURE READINGS—


The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare.


Hamlet
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Taming of the Shrew
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Joan of Ark
Schiller


Marie Stewart
"


Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens


David Copperfield
"


Pickwick Papers
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Alice Hegan Rice.





MONOLOGUES—


Cherry Blossoms, in Japanese Costume

Sutphen.


Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera, in costume.




Dressing for the Theater

May Isabel Fiske.


Buying Tickets for the Matinee

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and others.






DIALECT RECITATIONS—

The Lost Heir, in costume.
The Corpse's Husband, in costume.
Miranda on Why Women Can't Vote.
Marse Chan, Thomas Nelson Page.
Kathrina's Visit to New York, in German costume.
At the Concert, Edmond Vance Cook.
and many others.



NUMEROUS LIGHT AND HUMOROUS READINGS.
DRAMAS IN MINIATURE—

Mercedes.
Pauline Pavolvna.



COACHING PLAYS A SPECIALTY.