Theatrical lectures

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MRS. LARRY JOHNS
THEATRICALECTURES
Personal Management

MAE NORTON
143 1/2 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, California
BRadshaw   2-2301



MRS. LARRY JOHNS
Wells College, A.B., Cum Laude
University of Minnesota, Gamma Phi Beta
Graduate—School of Oratory, Minneapolis, Minn. Leland Powers, Boston, Mass.


Head of Public Speaking Department
Central High School, Minneapolis, Minn.
Assistant Head, Public Speaking Department
Oak Park High School, Chicago, Ill.
Playreader and Translator of Foreign plays
Century Play Company, New York City, N. Y.
Appeared on Broadway under the management of
Winthrop Ames, Charles Wagner, Brock Pemberton, Harris and others.
Played in Stock and Repertory Companies in,
Portland, Maine; Manchester, N. H.; Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Mass. Akron, Youngstown, Ohio; Norfolk, Va.
Toured in
Sun Up, and Moonshine and Honeysuckle.
Lecture Recitals in,
the East, West and middle West.
Co-author; the Novel,
Not By Eastern Windows Only
And the Plays,
Anonymously Yours, and Time Plays the Devil.




Program Material

HIGH-LIGHTS OF THE NEW YORK SEASON
What is playing now.  What to see on your trip East.  The smash hits.  The plays most discussed.

SOPHISTICATED AMERICAN COMEDY
S. N. Behrman, — its outstanding exponent.  George Kaufman — with his many collaborators.  Their most recent plays.  News of latest hits in the comedy field.

WILLIAM SAROYAN The Stormy Petrel
The Theatre on the horizon.  The Time of your Life.

MAXWELL ANDERSON — THE RETURN OF POETICAL DRAMA
The paradox of realism expressed in poetic terms.  Evidenced in Winterest and High Tor.  A glimpse of all his plays show his great versatility.

THAT MOST INTERESTING — EUGENE O'NEILL
Tragedy as he devises it.  The Theatre Guild as his most successful producer, and his important plays.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
Lillian Hellman's rich talent and her latest play.  Mystery plays — and the return of the Thrillers.

THE GROUP THEATRE and CLIFFORD ODETS
A theatre with a creed and a method.  Harold Clurman — Master organizer.  Clifford Odets — Brilliant Spokesman.  Awake and Sing — a milestone in the drama.  The mellowing of this artist's talent.

BIOGRAPHY IN PROSE AND DRAMA
The Drama makes great lives vivid.  Thumbnail dramatic sketches from several plays and books.  The current and new in this particular field.

THE ILLUSION OF TIME
Fourth dimension in the Drama

THE THEATRE OF SOCIAL CRITICISM
The fine ambitious organizations following this new trend — The Group, The Theatre Union, The Labor Stage, The Actor's Repertory.


The wealth of valuable material produced by these newcomers, — their present successes.

Note: These programs are all an hour in length but can be lengthened or shortened as desired.




PRESS COMMENTS

Nothing in the performance is finer than the work of Mrs. Larry Johns … Here is a lady whose technique is beautiful.  It reveals the art of acting without exposing it … She is an artist's artist.…
Worcester, Mass.


Mrs. Larry Johns' reading and character studies were sheer mastery of the difficult art of monoacting.
Minneapolis, Minn.


Especially, I should like to mention the performance of Mrs. Larry Johns in the role of the Mother in Call it a Day.  She compared very favorably with Gladys Cooper in the New York production.
New Haven, Conn.


The Soroptomist Club Luncheon audience was regaled with a refreshing survey of the New York Theatrical Season by Mrs. Larry Johns.
Long Beach, Calif.


It is difficult to say whether the success of Tovarich was due to Mrs. Johns' meticulous direction or her uncanny ability to create characters for the minds of her actors.
Long Beach, Calif.


Mrs. Larry Johns as the excitable promptress in The Torchbearers gave her second grand performance in as many weeks.
Portland, Maine


Mrs. Johns compressed her charming personality into the character … but her personal charm peeped through the chinks and crannies of the delightful part.
Akron, Ohio