Mary Moncure Parker

              Mary Moncure Parker



5953 Prairie Ave.



1322 East 47(th) St Chicago Ill


address when out of city


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Chicago's Most Famous Monologist




Mrs. Parker presents her own monologues.  She has the distinction of being the only reader who has ever appeared under the Frohman management, having read in the East under the auspices of Mr. Gustave Frohman, the well-known New York manager.




She reads from a dramatic standpoint,
 said Mr. Frohman, after hearing Mrs. Parker read her monologues.  She would make a great actress.—


Chicago Tribune.




Available for Lyceum, Chatauqua, Vaudeville, and Private Engagements





Press Notices



Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker, a well-known monologist of Chicago, and a member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, gave a delightful evening of original monologues last Thursday in Lakewood, N. J. Mrs. Parker is well known in club circles.—


The New York World.




Next Thursday night Gustave Frohman will present Mary Moncure Parker, the well-known society entertainer.—


New York Times.




Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker of New York and Chicago gave a delightful program of original monologues in various dialects, both in prose and verse, carrying her hearers from laughter to tears.—


The Evening Star, Washington, D. C.




The evening of fun opened with a clever curtain raiser, 
Mrs. Gadabout's Busy Day,
 by Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker, which convulsed the house with its depiction of the tribulations of a married man with a gadding wife.—


The Chicago Tribune.




Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker, a Chicago playwright, bids fair to become famous if she continues to appear before the public with the standard set by this comedy.—


The Cleveland Clipper.




Mrs. Parker is clever in her role selected for this season and adds greatly to the excellence of the operetta as presented at the Plaza.  She is an author and playwright.—


Charleston, W. Va., Times.




Mrs. Parker, a talented artist, gave a splendid turn at the Majestic.—


Cedar Rapids Evening Times.




Nobody who has heard Mrs. Parker tell these stories need be told how funny they are, nor that every one of them has a wholesome point, food for thought, they are sugar-coated and good for every one.—


Chicago Press Club Scoop.




Mary Moncure Parker, with her clever original monologues brought forth no end of applause from the audience.  She is a real fun-producer and drives dull care away.—


Balboa, Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama.




Mary Moncure Parker was the laugh producer and from the time she appeared on the stage in between the musical numbers she kept the audience laughing until her exit, with her funny original monologues.—


Star and Herald, Panama City, The Isthmus.




Mrs. Parker's program of original monologues was quite out of the ordinary.  It was varied, delightful, full of pathos and delicious humor, showing her exceptional ability in impersonating character and her brilliancy as a reader.—


Davenport Democrat





Mary Moncure Parker, in her original character sketches, has delightfully mastered the art of the dialectician.


Albuquerque New Mexico, Evening Herald




Mary Moncure Parker is charming, clever and beautiful, and her work is far above the ordinary.—


Peoria News.




Mary Moncure Parker, a clever Chicago writer and reader, has done good work in her 
New Monologues,
 a book that includes a generous allowance of the laughable narratives that have made the author more than locally famous.—


Ethel Maud Colson in the Chicago Herald.




Mary Moncure Parker, a prominent club woman and identified with Chicago society, was seen in a sketch at the Indiana, this week, and she was the best figure of the offering.  At several points in the play she gets big laughs.  She has an excellent role which she handles to perfection.—


Missouri Breeze.




Mary Moncure Parker is as clever a Mammy as has been this way in years.—


Dayton News.




Mrs. Busby's Pink Tea, by Mary Moncure Parker, presented by the Woman's Club, is a light comedy, and the situations are strikingly clever.—


The San Francisco Examiner.




Mary Moncure Parker, a player of much resourcefulness plays the Mammy excellently.—


Dubuque Daily Times Journal.




Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker was a success at the Garrick.  She surprised her audience at her stage debut with the completeness with which she immersed herself in her role, obliterating everything stagy from her work and reading her lines with a drollness that was extremely funny.—


The Chicago Examiner.




Mrs. Parker is much in demand at society functions where her wit and humor render her very welcome.—


The Chicago American.




Mary Moncure Parker's humor is delightful.  Her monologues are much above the average in point of merit.—


The Portland Sunday Oregonian.




Mrs. Parker's productions are bright, original and quaint.  She has a fine stage presence.  Yesterday she made a delightful picture as she stood before her hearers, clad in a handsome gown, and wearing the loveliest of picture hats.—


Joliet Daily News.




Mrs. Parker has returned from a tour through the Middle West and California, where she has been giving her original plays and monologues.  She was made an associate member of the Verse Writers' Club of Los Angeles, California.  She is a member of the Society of Midland Authors and Illinois Woman's Press.





The Radio Craze



Mary Moncure Parker, Chicago authoress, read several selections from her works into a radio phone at Pittsburgh the other evening.




(Extract from Letter)




The letters regarding your work were very favorable and complimentary, and we hope the experience may be repeated soon.




Radio Section, Dept. of Publicity, Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburgh.





Honorary Degree Given Mrs. Parker



The International College of Music, Expression and Dancing conferred an honorary degree, master of expression, upon Mary Moncure Parker, Chicago author and playwright, last night at the commencement exercises held at the Auditorium recital hall.  The Rt. Rev. Samuel D. Fallows, chairman of the advisory board of trustees, conferred the honors and awards.—


Herald-Examiner.





Humor and Pathos Are Twins,
 Says Chicago Writer



The Woman's Press Club was to have as its guest Friday Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker of Chicago, a writer and dramatic reader.

The world needs joy,
 said Mrs. Parker.  
Humor and pathos are twin emotions.  Tears follow laughter almost inevitably, in times like these.  We must strive to make the smiles outweigh the tears.
—

Cleveland Leader.




Mary Moncure Parker is a southerner with family traditions, but she is so happy in the cosmopolis of the mind, that all lands are home to her and all peoples kindred.  Chicago knows her as a dramatist of unusual distinction.  Mrs. Parker in her smart and becoming costume has twentieth century poise.  She comes of fighting stock.  Her maternal ancestor, Lawrence Washington, went forth from his ancestral home under his illustrious kinsman.  Glencairne, near Fredericksburg, Va., is the ancient seat of the Moncures for over two hundred years.  From the north on her father's side in revolutionary days came the Rev. James Caldwell, the 
fighting parson,
 who was the author of the famous line, when the men had to use wadding for guns from hymn books, 
Put Watts into 'em, boys.
  With a father who was a clergyman and well-known author, with a cousin of her mother who wrote the lives of Emerson, Carlyle, and many other books—with a grandfather the late Judge R. C. L. Moncure of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and all these influences of heredity and environment, it is not surprising that Mrs. Parker has found herself able to write and act with charm and originality.  If I should attempt to define the special quality which has spelled success for her, I should say, it was her delightful and wholly genuine humor.—


Grace Duffie Boylan's article on Mrs. Parker's work, in the Chicago Daily Journal.






MERRY MONOLOGUES



By Mary Moncure Parker




These selections are wholly original and sufficiently varied in character and sentiment to enable the reader to make up a well-rounded program in which high comedy mingles with farce and pathos in a manner suitable for all occasions.  Nineteen monologues and nine short poems which are especially adapted to that particular form of entertainment called the pianologue, viz., reading to music.




Contents:
  On the Street Car; The Renaissance of the Kiss; Husbands Is Husbands; Oh, Friend of Mine; George's First Sweetheart; Bobby and the New Baby; Lucile Gets Ready for a Dance; Mandy's Man and Safety First; Maggie McCarthy Goes on a Diet; Mrs. Climber Doesn't Like Notoriety; Lucindy Jones Expects a Legacy; Grown Folks Is So Awful Queer; At the Movies; The Gingie Boy; Ode to a Manikin; Isaacstein's Busy Day; Like Pilgrims to the Appointed Place; Mrs. Bargain Counter Meets a Friend; Mother Mine; Maggie McCarthy Has Her Fortune Told; In Vaudeville; Uncle Jim and the Liniment; The Funny Story; In the Milliner Shop; Mrs. Trubble's Troubles; George's Cousin Willie; When Lucindy Goes to Town; A Question.




A bright little book of short, snappy monologues which really sparkle.—


Brooklyn Eagle.




Handsome cloth binding; Price, Postpaid, $1.25.





THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET



By Mary Moncure Parker




Rural drama in four acts, for 8 males and 6 females; time, 2 hours.  Scenes:  1 exterior, 1 interior.  It's a simple rural story that never grows old, of heartaches and forgiveness, interspersed with rustic humor.  
Price, Postpaid, 25 Cents.





SHADOWS



By Mary Moncure Parker




Shadows:
  Play of the South, today, and a dream of the past, in one act, an interior scene, for 3 males and 4 females.  Time, 35 minutes.  A girl decides to reject youth and love for the riches of an aged suitor.  She falls asleep and dreams of her grandmother who married as she now contemplates.  The dream folks appear and play their parts.  The girl awakens, the shadows flee and she comes to her senses and her lover.  Quaint comedy supplied by a philosophical old colored mammy.  
Price, 25 Cents.




We publish a complete line of Plays and Entertainment Books suitable for all occasions.  Big illustrated catalogue mailed free on request.




T. S. DENISON & COMPANY




Dramatic Publishers
 (Established 1876)




623 S. WABASH AVE. CHICAGO






JOLLY MONOLOGUES



By Mary Moncure Parker




Another superb group of readings by the author of 
Merry Monologues.
  The twenty-eight original selections in prose and verse will prove gems for any platform artist.  Many moods and shades of sentiment are represented, but the majority are humorous.  The original work of this popular author and entertainer is in constantly increasing demand, and this is one of her very best collections.  It is her newest book.




Contents:
  At the Bridge Party; A Free Lunch; You Have the Same Old Smile; Signs of Spring; Mr. Daniel and the Lions; At the Telephone; You's Mah Lil' Coal Black Baby; The Ghost of Annie Flanigan; The Club Luncheon; The New Baby; The Kisses of Life; What George Thinks of the Movies; Isn't Art Absorbing; Her Valentine; Maggie McCarty Talks About Receptions; Hiram and the Bolshevists; Jimmy's Prayer; What Mary Thinks of Boys; From the Street Car Conductor's Point of View; The Eater; The Peach Blossom Princess; One Minute to Eat; A Chop Suey Love Tale; Converting John the 
Blaptist
; To Him That Overcometh; When We Went In; Who Says Woman's Place Is at Home?  Red Charley—One Credit.




Monologues which are not only good reading but are also suitable for parlor or public use.  They all possess a rich fund of humor and are so varied that the reader is sure to find something suitable for almost any kind of gathering.—


Boston Globe.




Price, Postpaid, $1.25.





BREAD, BUTTER AND ROMANCE



By Mary Moncure Parker




One-act comedy for 1 male and 3 females; time, 20 minutes.  Maisie's head is awhirl with an urge for romance, but an experience with wandering gypsies proves an eye-opener, and she sees her 
bread-and-butter
 suitor in a better light.  Characters:  Irishwoman, gypsies and 
flapper.
  Has been produced in Chautauqua with immense success.  Can be played in any parlor, and by all-female cast if desired.  
Price, 25 Cents.





MRS. HOOPS-HOOPER AND THE HINDU



By Mary Moncure Parker




One-act comedy, intended to be played by 12 women, but may be done with 2 males and 10 females.  Time, 25 minutes.  Scene:  Living room interior.  Characters:  Hostess, Hindu 
philosopher,
 Chinese houseboy, Irish servant girl and society women.  A clever take-off on the risk one runs in following new cults.  First produced before the Arche Club of Chicago, with great success.  Very popular with women's clubs.  
Price, 25 Cents.




We publish a complete line of Plays and Entertainment Books suitable for all occasions.  Big illustrated catalogue mailed free on request.




T. S. DENISON & COMPANY




Dramatic Publishers
 (Established 1876)




623 S. WABASH AVE. CHICAGO





Mrs. Parker's Books



New Monologues


Monologues and Jingles


Merry Monologues


Jolly Monologues


Monologues for Young Patriots


Funny Monologues


Lively Monologues





Plays



Love Behind the Scenes


Powder and Patches


The Rehearsal


A Day at the Know-It-All Club


When Your Wife's Away


The Princess Innocence


A Colonial Dream


A Quiet Evening at Home


Mrs. Gadabout's Busy Day