Harrison Crofford

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HARRISON CROFFORD


Harrison Crofford — Actor-Recitalist
The fine art of dramatic reading — with the intimate personal touch — with the ability to so present his offerings that his audience really visualizes the scenes he depicts, the characters whose qualities, eccentricities and powers he vocalizes with voice and every movement of his body — finds an able and rising exponent in Mr. Harrison Crofford, a southern boy who already has achieved a modicum of fame in many appearances both in his native Southland, as well as in New England and other parts of the country.

Mr. Crofford, ambitious in his work, enacts an entire play for an evening's entertainment with proven skill and true artistry.

His characterizations are clean cut and the dramatic situations are unfolded with power and the true regard for the amenities and laws of the drama — in truly protean fashion.  He draws for this kind of work on his experience on the dramatic stage and platform work over a period of years.

With the true Southern touch, Mr. Crofford's comedy offerings are peculiarly fascinating — especially some of his negro folk stories and selections.

Mr. Crofford's repertoire covers a wide range of plays and shorter selections running the gamut from the most intensely tragic to the lighter forms of pathos and comedy.

Mr. Crofford presents a number of readings with musical settings, such as Robert of Sicily, The Happy Prince, Madeline of the Movies, A Quiet Afternoon, and a group of negro dialect stories, poems and monologues including verse by Kipling, Noyes, Service and others.




Repertoire


The Sign of the Cross

Wilson Barrett



(Full Evening or Scenes from Play)



A Bit O' Love

John Galsworthy



Full Evening



The Three Wise Fools

Austin Strong


The Devil's Disciple

Bernard Shaw



(Full Evening or Scenes from the Play)




In Preparation



Beyond The Horizon

Eugene O' Neil


Enoch Arden/cell>

Alfred Tennyson



(With Musical Setting by Richard Strauss)



The Florist's Shop

Hawkridge



One Act Play — Comedy




Cuttings from



Nothing But the Truth

James Montgomery


Madeline of the Movies

Leacock



Comedy



The Finger of God

Percival Wilde


Madam X





Dramatic Selection from the Play



Robert of Sicily

Longfellow



(Musical Setting by Rossiter G. Cole)



The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde



(Musical Setting by Liza Lehman)



The Witch Song

Wildenbruch



(Musical Setting by Max Schilling)



The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe



(Musical Setting by Arthur Bergh)




In his miscellaneous programs Mr. Crofford intersperses Negro Spirituals and Folk Tale Songs