Mae Shumway Enderly

              Reader of Plays



Impersonations



Harpist


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European Wedding Costumes
(30 Second Changes) and Folk Songs

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Mae Shumway Enderly




Personal Recommendations and Press Comments



Redpath-Lyceum-Musical-Chautauqua-Bureaus




Los Angeles, Calif., April 15th, 1918.




Dear Mrs. Enderly:




I wish to express my appreciation to you in behalf of the programs that you have given before the Redpath patrons in California.




Your programs are original, unique and highly entertaining.  It carries a great deal of weight thru its variety and entertaining quality, to say nothing of its educational value.




I give my unqualified approval of your splendid work and do not hesitate to recommend yourself and your program to any and all parties interested in the highest class of educational entertainment.




Yours sincerely,
HARRY R. MINER, Manager Redpath Bureau.



National Alliance




Guymon, Okla., Nov. 12th, 1918.




Mrs. Mae Shumway Enderly,
Los Angeles, Calif.



Dear Mrs. Enderly:




I desire to thank you for the entertainments you have given the towns on this circuit.  So many good reports have come to me from the various committees that I think I shall have to call upon you for some return dates.




Your reading, impersonations, and Irish Harp numbers certainly show the work of an artist, and made more impressive by your beautiful costumes, I can unhesitatingly say that you gave the best highest quality program of the kind ever given here.




With kindest regards, I am,




Yours truly,
WILLIAM H. GRIMM,
Manager National Alliance.



National Lincoln Chautauqua System.  Chicago, Ill., Oct. 13th, 1916.




To Whom It May Concern:




This is to certify that Mae Shumway Enderly appeared on our program for the Chautauqua summer of 1916 and her work was eminently satisfactory.  Mrs. Enderly's work is unique, has an educational value and is very interesting.




ALONZO E. WILSON,
President and Manager.



LINCOLN CHAUTAUQUAS




Lincoln Chautauqua System (Inc.)
Chicago.
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 19, 1916.



To Whom It May Concern:




Mae Shumway Enderly appeared on the first day on Circuit Four of the National Lincoln Chautauquas during the season of 1919.  She gave a very interesting and instructive entertainment.




The Idea of her program was strikingly original, her costumes were beautiful, and interpretation was excellent.




Personally I enjoyed her straight reading even more than her work in costume.




H. CLARE WELKER,
Circuit Manager.



January 28, 1918.




Mae Shumway Enderly has given two programs this season for the Municipal Work at Trinity Auditorium and at Hamburger's 
Arrow Theater,
 both programs having proven most entertaining and instructive; and we also find that while highly artistic they appeal to the general public as well, as her patronage was much larger than that of any local artist appearing for us this season.




We commend the work.




MRS. J. T. ANDERSON,
Chairman Woman's City Council Defense.



Ebell Club of Los Angeles.




December 12, 1917.




My dear Mrs. Enderly:




The program given by you at the Ebell Club House on November 27th was most delightful.  Your rendering of 
Immigrants,
 by Percy Mackaye, was excellent in realistic and sympathetic interpretation, while the 
Peasant Brides
 was very interesting, instructive and entertaining.  I heard only favorable comments, and not one adverse criticism and desire to express our appreciation and pleasure.  With good wishes for success.




Cordially yours,
Mrs. WALTER FISHER,
Chairman Program Committee.



Mrs. Mae Shumway Enderly will leave this week for a concert tour in the East.  She has been giving her time generously to war work both for the City Woman's Council of Defense and the Red Cross.  She recently returned from the North, where she gave unique and original inspirational programs for the follow-up work of the W. S. S. Drive.


These programs have been popular with all classes of people, appealing to both the patriotic and artistic.



Following the inspirational numbers she has a delightful feature, the 
Brides of Our Allies,
 where she appeared in beautiful and unusual costumes of peasant brides.  Appropriate folk lore and songs and a spirited description of the weddings, accompanies this feature of the inspiring Liberty Program.



Mrs. Enderly leaves next Thursday for the east where she will give programs for the cantonments during August, beginning a regular concert tour of the Middle West in September.—



Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 1918
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A woman of rare natural charm and attractive personality gave a brilliant costumed program of musical and dramatic nature, yesterday before the Club at its regular afternoon meeting.  This was Mae Shumway Enderly, whose talents have for some years been known to delighted Chautauqua assemblies.


Her rich deep voice with its wonderful gamut of sonorous tones, her strikingly impressive face and figure, keen intellectual insight, astonishing power of memory and dramatic interpretation, all lent to the afternoon program so much of the above charm that many requests for her return to the club next season were filed with the committee.



Percy Mackaye's 
Immigrants
 was given first, the forceful interpretation holding the audience spellbound.



In lighter vein, she gave original impersonations of some of the peasantry of our own land, then with thirty seconds for each transformation, Mrs. Enderly became a number of brides in quick succession, appearing in magnificent costumes she had gathered abroad, gave appropriate folk songs to harp accompaniment with each, preceded by a spirited clever description of the wedding scenes.  In these descriptions the vibrant voice and clever comment were most delightful.  Each bride feature was given easily and each with a style all its own, the reader taking the part of the lively Italian, the dramatic Hungarian, the phlegmatic Dutch and other nationalities, thus closing all with a beautiful 
Goddess of Liberty
 pantomime in deaf-mute language with finale of flags.—



Pasadena Star-News, Mar. 8, 1918
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Mae Shumway Enderly, a clever and versatile artist, appeared at Trinity Auditorium Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Schubert Club.  She astonished all with her splendid dramatic powers, her talent is nothing short of marvelous.—


Evening Express Jan. 29th, 1918
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