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Montaville Flowers



Forensic Lectures on World Problems



Under the management of
 THE AFFILIATED LYCEUM BUREAUS OF AMERICA




Montaville Flowers IN 
Forensic Lectures on World Problems Literary Lectures and Lecture Recitals
 WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ACTING



Brings to his audiences the 
fruit
 of high 
attainments
 and rich 
experience.


He had written three 
lectures
 at 
twenty-one.


Later he became wholly interested in 
dramatic literature.


He produced 
Ben-Hur
 as a monologue 
four years
 before it was 
staged,
 receiving the supreme praise of 
Lew Wallace.


For fifteen years his 
interpretations
 of Dickens, Barrie, Wallace, Hugo and Shakespeare have 
set lyceum standards.


In this form of 
dramatic oratory
 he is universally conceded to be the 
ranking artist
 of America.


In 1908 he essayed 
political
 oratory, and at once stepped into the 
first rank
 in that field.


In 1913 he produced his lecture interpreting the Japanese problem in America, which for 
logic, inspiration, mass
 of informing 
material,
 and 
pure oratory
 is pronounced by high authority an 
American classic.


In 1915 he made another step upward in 
Rebuilding the Temple,
 a study in the reconstruction of civilization, of which Paul M. Pearson wrote, 
You have made the greatest success of your career.


In 
The Fashion of His Countenance
 he 
combines
 his two studies of 
human personality and human history
 in a lecture on 
How to Live and Win.


He possesses powerful, distinctive 
personality.


He always gives his audience keen 
intellectual stimulus,
 raising the whole nature toward the 
ideal,
 the 
beautiful,
 the 
good.


He holds the 
unique position
 of 
brilliant
 and 
pre-eminent
 success in 
two
 distinct 
fields
 of lyceum work.


These statements are taken from the expressions of Lyceum Bureaus and Committees, Educators and Artists, his Colleagues and Critics, and the Press of America.





A BUSY LIFE 
FROM A SKETCH BY
 RALPH PARLETTE



T
O CATALOGUE all his activities would require more space than this allotment.  His energies have always overflowed his job.  Pick any time in his career and you find him driving several teams.  He bobs up as a graduate of the Ohio Northern University, the Ohio University, and the College of Music of Cincinnati.  He taught Oratory in that last-named institution and at the Cincinnati College of Law.  For six years he was Superintendent of Public Schools and Clerk of the Board of Education of Norwood, Ohio.  He spent three years as special student under Dr. P. V. N. Myers, the historian, and was executive head of the Extension Department of the University of Cincinnati at the same time.  He founded one of the great pioneer lyceum bureaus and the Academy of Dramatic Arts while business manager of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.  Twice the International Lyceum Association of America has elected him president.  Meantime he has appeared on most of the college and university and lyceum courses of all the United States.




Permanent Address:  MONTAVILLE FLOWERS, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California






Forensic Lectures by Montaville Flowers on World Problems



The Lecture as a Social Force has been brought to high perfection by Montaville Flowers in—


The vital worth of his subject matter.


The chaste form of his constructions.


The masterful art of his delivery.


The lofty appeal of his message.


The lasting joy of the occasion.






Guarding the Golden Gate A Study of the Japanese Problem in the United States



What answer shall the United States give to the insistent knocking of Asia at the door?  What will ensue if we open the door, and what may if we do not?  The solution of this problem cannot end in mere transcendental theory—but it must be found in action pregnant with destiny; for the answer will determine the future character of our people, the form and substance of our civilization, the length of our national life.—


From 
The Japanese Conquest of American Opinion.





Rebuilding the Temple



A Study of the Reconstruction of Civilization
 with regard to the welfare of the United States and its duties in our relations with the world.
The least that any man can do while he lives is so to meet the problems of his time that he leaves to his children and their children the conditions of living as good as he received them.  Less than that honor cannot offer to posterity.—

From 
Rebuilding the Temple.




Literary Lectures and Lecture Recitals With Illustrative Action



The people of America know Montaville Flowers in Educational and Literary Lectures and Lecture Recitals—and still demand this work of him.  While now he is writing and lecturing to instruct and inspire a high national life, and prefers that field, he retains in full his former repertoire and is available in any of the following subjects:


THE DRAMA OF GOLD
—A Christmas Carol—
Dickens.


THE DRAMA OF REVENGE
—The Merchant of Venice—
Shakespeare.


THE DRAMA OF CHASTITY
—Hamlet, Prince of Denmark—
Shakespeare.


THE DRAMA OF DIVINITY
—Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ—
Wallace.


THE DRAMA OF LOVE AND RELIGION
—The Little Minister—
Barrie.


THE DRAMA OF THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE
—Les Miserables—
Hugo.






The Fashion of His Countenance A Lecture on Life



A study of human personality; the dual physical and physic persons—their relations and counterplay one upon the other; their development for highest efficiency; a scientific but plain and practical study in individual happiness; dealing with decisive facts in everyone's daily life; full of heart power and interest to all, and of especial value to parents, to teachers, and to young people who wish to win.






Forensic Lectures on World Problems 
By Montaville Flowers Guarding the Golden Gate



A study of the Japanese Problem in America — its rise, meaning, aims and present status — interpreting the action of the Pacific States, our National Government and Japan, a portentous question involving American destiny.




Under fire
 says one; 
My brain was treated by a great intellectual tonic,
 says another, 
A thrill to the emotions;
 
A tremendous challenge to thought;
 
Must be heard by every American;
 say those who hear these lectures.  Audiences are impressed with his sincerity, and convinced by his grasp of fact, fired with the touch of his patriotism and moved by his clever perception of moral values in world relations.  His work answers the call of the hour.





Rebuilding the Temple



A study of the reconstruction of civilization after the world war — a fundamental discussion of peace and progress, with special reference to the duties and policies of the United States in our relations with the world powers.  Vital, and up-to-the-minute.





The Japanese Conquest of American Opinion
 A Book by Montaville Flowers 
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, New York, Publishers $1.50 postpaid.



Dedicated to the boys and girls in our high schools — the young men and women in our Colleges upon whose American spirit and whose knowledge of the great world problems of our time depends the preservation of the inheritance bequeathed by the Founders and Builders of the Republic.





PRESS COMMENTS



In twenty years of public life thousands of columns of complimentary matter have been written by the press in all the States of the Union on the methods, worth and success of Mr. Flowers' work.  It is impossible to repeat or summarize these in this announcement more than has been done on page two.  Additional printed matter will be furnished upon request.




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