Mary Moncure Parker

              Mary Moncure Parker

CHICAGO'S MOST FAMOUS MONOLOGIST


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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 at a banquet in Chicago.  
She would make a great actress.




Available for Lyceum, Chautauqua, Vaudeville, and Private Engagements.




Address
Mary Moncure Parker 434 East 42nd Place.  Telephone Oakland 5244.




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.




On Thursday night Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker entertained a large audience with humorous skits.—


New York Herald.




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.




Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker, a prominent club woman, is a leading monologist and dramatic reader.—


The Washington Herald.




Mrs. Mary Moncure Parker, a well known monologist of New York and Chicago, who has been giving her original entertainments under the auspices of Gustav Frohman, will give a reading this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Samuel Kimberly.—


The Washington Times.




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.




She reads from a dramatic standpoint, said Mr. Frohman, after hearing Mrs. Parker read her monologues.  She would make a great actress.  She presents a rare combination; the ability to give May Irwin comedy together with the dramatic qualities of Sarah Cowell LeMoyne.—


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 as an author and playwright, as an entertainer in monologues, pathetic and humorous child stories, in both prose and poetry, is well known wherever real and original entertainments are had.
Among the dramatists rapidly becoming known outside their own enthusiastic circle of friends, is Mary Moncure Parker, of Kenwood.  Certainly the gift-conferring fairies have been most generous with Mrs. Parker.—

The Chicago Journal.





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.




Mary Moncure Parker, a prominent figure in club and theatrical circles, herself a playwright, is playing one of the leading roles at the Avenue.—


Chicago Herald.




Mrs. Parker is the only woman doing blackface today who can get the laughs.—


Cedar Rapids Republican.




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 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.  Out of the European situation she has written an allegory, War and Woman, and to me it seemed like the progress of the world, a hurt and weary pilgrim journeying toward the Castle of Peace.  Mrs. Parker in her smart and becoming costume and twentieth century poise has a theme in this allegory as lofty as Bunyon's own in Pilgrim's Progress.  Mrs. Parker comes of fighting stock.  Her maternal ancestor, Lawrence Washington, went forth from his ancestral home under his illustrious kinsman.  Glencairne, near Fredericks Virginia, 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.  She produces plays and monologues and presents them in every state between the two seas.  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, not the kind merely assumed with a dialect, but the heart-deep variety, almost Celtic in its subtlety, which characterizes what she says.—


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





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 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.  Maggie McCarthy's views on the servant problem and the Beauty Parlor are calculated to make a dyspeptic laugh after eating corn beef and cabbage—


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.




Mrs. Parker assumed the role of the colored mammy in the sketch at the Orpheum and it was a deft piece of characterization.—


Rockford Republican.




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


Dayton News.




The work of Mrs, Parker in vaudeville at the Temple this week is a real delight.—


Fort Wayne Sentinel.




Mary Moncure Parker, a Chicago writer of plays, has gone into vaudeville.—


Variety.




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. Parker read at a banquet given to Mr. Frohman when the latter was in Chicago with a play.  At the end of the reading Mr. Frohman rose and said:  
Well, Mrs. Parker, you have all these people as witnesses that I have said that at any time you wish to take up that line of work, I will give you a place in one of my plays.
—


Chicago Examiner.




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.  She is a well known figure in club life, and has been successfully touring the country in vaudeville.—


The Chicago Examiner.




Mrs. Parker received a prolonged ovation.—


The Chicago American




There was a large audience of enthusiastic Daughters present yesterday to witness the clever costume comedy, 
Powder and Patches,
 written by Mary Moncure Parker.—


The Chicago Herald.




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


The Portland Sunday Oregonian.




Mary Moncure Parker is an author and playwright and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  The Lagonda Chapter will attend the matinee at the New Sun Theatre in Mrs. Parker's honor.—


Springfield Ohio News.




Mrs. Parkers'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.—


Jolict Daily News.





Mrs. Parker's Plays



A Colonial Dream,
 
When Your Wife's Away,
 
Love Behind the Scenes,
 
Powder and Patches,
 
The Rehearsal,
 
Princess Innocence,
 
A Quiet Evening at Home,
 Etc. and a Book of Monologues Entitled 
New Monologues and Dialect Stories
 ARE PUBLISHED BY Frederick Drake and Company




PUBLISHERS 1325 MICHIGAN AVENUE For Sale by All Booksellers






MERRY MONOLOGUES



BY MARY MONCURE PARKER




A Laugh for Every Day in the Year




Containing about twenty of her most successful monologues, pianologues, also jolly jingles, which make most excellent encores.  They have all been used exclusively by the author in her popular programs and now appear for the first time in print for use of the general public.  This is a great boon for readers who are constantly looking for new and original material which is difficult to obtain.  The following are some of the most popular and striking titles:


Lucile Gets Ready for a Dance


Mrs. Climber Doesn't Like N iety


On the Street Car


Uncle Jim and the Liniment


Maggie McCarthy Goes on a Diet


Isaacstein's Busy Day


George's First Sweetheart


Lucindy Jones Expects a Legacy


At the Movies


Bobby and the New Baby


Mandy's Man and Safety First





Attractive Cloth Binding.  Large Clear Type.  Now in Preparation.  Ready Feb. 15, 1916.




The Old Oaken Bucket.
—Rural drama in 4 acts, by Mary Moncure Parker; 8 males, 6 females.  Time, 2 hours.  
Scenes:
  1 exterior, 1 interior.  It's a simple rural story which never grows old, of heartaches and forgiveness, interspersed with rustic humor.




Price, Postpaid, 25 Cents.




Shadows.
—Play of the South, today, and a dream of the past, in one act, interior scene, by Mary Moncure Parker; 3 males; 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, Postpaid 15 Cents.




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