Frederick Paulding

              Frederick Paulding



The Well-Known Actor, Author and Lecturer



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Frederick Paulding's Dramatic & Literary Reviews & Recitals of Shakespeare's Plays and English Standard Literature



THESE 
Reviews
 are a 
Novelty
 in the way of literary entertainment, in that they combine, not only the data, instruction, criticism and anecdote of the lecture, but the 
dramatic interpretation
 of the 
works
 of the authors under consideration.  It is thus that Mr. Paulding utilizes the experience and training of his long career as an actor, and his association with all the greatest stars of the past thirty years.—


Springfield, Mass. Daily News,
 Dec. 14th, 1914.





SOME CRITICAL OPINIONS OF MR. PAULDING'S WORK FROM A FEW WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE:



REV. FATHER JOHN TALBOT SMITH
, the famous priest, lecturer, writer and educator, writes:




Frederick Paulding's review and recital on Hamlet is the most effective and interesting performance I have ever enjoyed.  Mr. Paulding possesses unusual qualities for his Shakespearian work.  Besides being an actor of most finished method and varied experience, his ability in offhand argument and explanation is evident.  He is as fluent as a lawyer.  Gesture, facial expression, pose are so restrained, yet so expressive, as to delight the experienced, while still impressing the crowd.  His lectures on unusual subjects, such as Disraeli and Thomas Moore, enjoy the double quality of academic precision and dramatic presentation.  It is delightful to know that his programme includes thirty reviews and lecture-recitals on the great writers of the English tongue, English, Scotch, Irish, and American, and that to this extensive list he is constantly adding.  I recommend him to the colleges and convents and societies of the country as the most effective and entertaining lecturer I have ever heard.




JOHN TALBOT SMITH, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.




MR. DANIEL
 P. 
TOOMEY
, Past Grand Knight, East Orange, N. J. Council, Knights of Columbus and 
EDITOR
 of the 
COLUMBIAD
, the official newspaper of the 
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
 throughout the 
UNITED STATES
, writes:




The first quality which impressed me, in Frederick Paulding's work, when I heard his review of Shakespeare's 
Hamlet,
 was its 
spontaneity
; the second;—and 
this
 impression not only lingers, but deepens, with each of his reviews that I hear—was its 
effect
 upon his audience.  Whether the melancholy of 
Hamlet,
 the fire of 
Romeo,
 the stormy passion of old 
Shylock,
 the dignity and pathos of 
Henry VIII,
 the absurd pomposity of Malvolio, in 
Twelfth Night,
 the brilliance of the Sheridan Comedies, or the music, fire and pathos of his readings of the inspired poetry of Tom Moore; the response of his audiences has been the same, in the tribute of applause, unbidden tears, hearty laughter, or the dead silence that counts for more than applause; that tense blank of arrested attention, such as greets his portrayal of the Ghost Scene in 
Hamlet.




Mr. Paulding's natural gifts, and his long training as an actor have been the cause of this; but to 
me,
 the 
unique
 feature of each of his entertainments has been, the blending of lecture and dramatic performance that is offered.  To the dramatic interpretation of the skilled actor, Frederick Paulding adds a knowledge of his subject, a sympathetic and comprehensive study of his author, and a keen appreciation of values, which makes his work doubly beneficial, as entertainment and instruction.  I can heartily recommend him and his reviews.




DANIEL P. TOOMEY, Editor 
THE COLUMBIAD
,
 Hoboken, N. J.




Professor George E. Eliot, Principal of the Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., writes:




MR. FREDERICK PAULDING is most delightfully entertaining in his literary reviews.  To the knowledge of a scholar and the art of an actor he brings a literary style of rare grace, and adds the charm of a thoroughly sympathetic personality which flashes instantly and vividly to his audience, the humor or the pathos of the situation.




Mr. Paulding was enthusiastically greeted on his last appearance here, when he gave us a wonderful evening with Sheridan and his comedies, and we are eagerly anticipating his return.




GEORGE
 E. 
ELIOT
, 
Morgan School, Clinton, Conn.




Dr. Jesse Albert Locke, A.M.LL.D., Headmaster Newman School, Hackensack, N. J., writes:




DEAR Mr. Paulding:—I want to express to you something of my appreciation of the benefit you have conferred upon the pupils of this school by your Shakesperian and other Reviews.  They held the attention and interest and were educational in a high sense, not only giving your young hearers an example of artistic rendering, but opening to their minds a fuller conception of the 
meaning
 of these masterpieces of literature.  I shall hope to have the privilege of hearing you again, and my wish will be unanimously seconded by the boys.




Believe me, yours faithfully, 
JESSE ALBERT LOCKE
,

Headmaster, Newman School, Hackensack, N.J.



Mrs. M. J. Young-Fulton, the Noted Educator, head of the Young-Fulton American and Foreign Teachers' Agency, of New York City, writes:




MY Dear Mr. Paulding:—Only a line to congratulate you on your exquisite work this morning at the Waldorf.  No other word can express it; your fine, keen appreciation of the characters as well as the work of those rare men, Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Moore.  It is refreshing to see and hear one who emphasizes, as you do, high ideals and Christian life.  
All
 your work is of such a high order that all those who can have an opportunity of hearing you are to be congratulated.  Wishing you all possible success,




Your sincere friend,
M. J. 
YOUNG-FULTON




William Revel Moody, the Noted Educator, President of the Northfield, (Mass.) Schools, writes:




DEAR Mr. Paulding:—Your lecture at Mount Hermon on the 
Humor of Charles Dickens
 was greatly appreciated.  All of us who heard you have a 
new
 appreciation of Dickens as a result.  Your interpretation of the several scenes which you selected, especially those of 
The Pickwick Papers
 and 
Nicholas Nickleby,
 will always make them stand out in our memory, and I want to thank you, not only on behalf of the school, but personally, for what we owe you in giving us this new appreciation of the great novelist.




Sincerely yours,
W. R. 
MOODY





A Sketch of Frederick Paulding's Career



Frederick Paulding is vividly remembered, by many theatre-goers, for his romantic and vital 
Romeo,
 as acted to the late Margaret Mather's 
Juliet,
 during the famous hundred night run of the tragedy at the old Union Square Theatre, New York City, in 1885, and for 
twelve hundred
 performances thereafter throughout the country.
Another notable success of Mr. Paulding's was his spirited performance of Captain Jack Absolute, in Sheridan's immortal comedy, 
The Rivals,
 as produced by the late Joseph Jefferson, William J. Florence and Mrs. John Drew, when Miss Viola Allen and F. C. Bangs were also in the cast.  Nearly all recall Mr. Paulding's impersonation of the 
lean and hungry Cassius,
 in the late Richard Mansfield's superb production of 
Julius Cæsar,
 when it was produced in this city some years ago.Mr. Paulding is a native-born American and by ancestry connected with some of the foremost men of our early history of patriotism and literature.  He is a great-grand nephew of Washington Irving, as his father, the late Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, U.S.A., was the celebrated Indian fighter, author of that well-known book, 
Our Wild Indians,
 and the grandson of Ann Irving Dodge—Washington Irving's sister.  Thus Mr. Paulding is a first cousin to that famous Southerner, the Hon. Robert B. Glenn, Ex-Governor of North Carolina.Mr. Paulding, in his profession, uses his mother's maiden name (his own 
baptismal
 name) of Paulding.  His mother was Julia Rhinelander Paulding, granddaughter of that General William Paulding who was twice Mayor of New York City, and thus she was a grandniece of our first American novelist, James Kirke Paulding, author of 
The Dutchman's Fircside,
 and a direct descendant of the famous captor of Major André, John Paulding.Many people still remember Frederick Paulding with pleasure as Iago, Hamlet, Romeo, Shylock, Macbeth, Bassanio, Cassius, Macduff, Malvolio, Orlando; as the fiery 
Rudolf
 of Margaret Mather's wonderful production of 
Leah,
 the romantic 
Claude Melnotte
 of the 
Lady of Lyons,
 and the devoted 
De Maupret
 of 
Richelieu,
 and in recent years as delightful, jealous Ford, in 
The Merry Wives of Windsor,
 and the jolly 
Antipholus
 of the 
Comedy of Errors,
 when these plays were staged by Mr. Paulding for the late Louis James.Before leaving the stage for the lecture platform, Mr. Paulding had played in his active career over five hundred characters, ranging from Shakespearian tragedy and comedy to modern farce and even musical comedy.  He has supported all the great stars of the past thirty years—Edwin Booth, John McCullough, Frank Mayo, Joseph Jefferson, Louis James, Richard Mansfield, Madame Modjeska, Fanny Davenport, Mrs. John Drew, William J. Florence, and a host of lesser lights; besides writing several popular plays, including 
The Woman's Hour
 and 
The Love Affair.
 Many people will recall Tim Murphy's delightful performance of 
John Crosby
 in 
Two Men and a Girl
 throughout the South and West, but few remember that the pretty play was written by Frederick Paulding.Mr. Paulding is at present actively engaged in the educational and literary field in New York City, State and New England.  He gives Series of 
Reviews
 on Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, fiction and drama of Standard English Literature before Schools, Colleges, and Literary Societies; one of his most notable subscription courses being at Troy, N. Y., but his 
principal
 activity is his annual subscription series at the 
WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY
, where he has just opened his 
third
 year, under distinguished patronage, and where he will begin his fourth season of subscription reviews on the first Wednesday of December next.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., DAILY NEWS, December 14th, 1914.




FREDERICK PAULDING



ANNOUNCES HIS ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION COURSE (FOURTH YEAR) OF 
EIGHT LITERARY REVIEWS ON SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
 AT THE 
WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL
 FIFTH AVENUE, 33D AND 34TH STREETS, NEW YORK CITY BEGINNING ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF DECEMBER






SUBJECTS AND DISTINCTIVE TITLES OF Frederick Paulding's Dramatic & Literary Reviews



IMPORTANT NOTE



Each of the following REVIEWS is illustrated by DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION of the work or works of the authors under consideration.




They will be delivered SINGLY or in COURSES as preferred EACH has been given in its turn at the WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY.




As arranged in SERIES, these REVIEWS are SPECIALLY designed for TEACHERS ASSOCIATION COURSES, CHAUTAUQUAS, and LITERARY CLASSES in PRIVATE SCHOOLS or COLLEGES.





SHAKESPEARE



1


HAMLET


2


THE MERCHANT OF VENICE


3


ROMEO AND JULIET


4


TWELFTH NIGHT


5


KING JOHN}Dramatic Recitals.


6


THE SONNETS AND COMEDIES


7


KING HENRY V.


8


MACBETH


9


THE PASTORAL AND FAIRY PLAYS


10


KING HENRY VIII.





THE GEORGIAN PERIOD OF ENGLISH LITERATURE



1


THREE GREAT WOMEN DRAMATISTS: 
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE, HANNAH COWLEY
 and 
ELIZABETH INCHBALD


2


RICHARDSON AND FIELDING: The pioneer realist and humourist in the realm of the English novel


3


COURT LIFE UNDER GEORGE III: 
FANNY BURNEY
 and her intimates


4


THREE GREAT WOMEN NOVELISTS: 
JANE AUSTEN, CHARLOTTE BRONT
Ë and 
ELIZABETH GASKELL


5


GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: His life, genius and immortal poetry





IRISH LITERATURE



1


RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: His life, times and famous comedies


2


OLIVER GOLDSMITH and THOMAS MOORE: Their lives, prose and poetry


3


THREE MODERN IRISH DRAMATISTS: 
JOHN SYNGE, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
 and 
LADY GREGORY





VICTORIAN PERIOD OF ENGLISH LITERATURE



1


THE HUMOR OF CHARLES DICKENS


2


THE POWER AND PATHOS OF CHARLES DICKENS


3


DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CARCL


4


DICKENS' MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT


5


WILLIAM M. THACKERAY: The great satirist and his immortal books


6


GEORGE ELIOT: Her life and her greatest books


7


LORD BEACONSFIELD: His political, social and literary careers


8


CHARLES READE: His romantic life, his greatest book and plays


9


THE ENGLISH DRAMA: From 
DION BOUCICAULT
 to 
BERNARD SHAW


10


TENNYSON AND BROWNING: The contrasts of their lives, genius and poetry


11


RUDYARD KIPLING: His work and his future place in literature





AMERICAN AUTHORS



1


WASHINGTON IRVING: The man and his work, reviewed by his great-grandnephew


2


EDGAR ALLAN POE: His life, work and strange distinctive genius


3


GENERAL LEW WALLACE AND HIS BEN HUR: The value of its message and some personal memories of the man





AMERICAN LIFE AND LITERATURE



1


DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN LIFE: Personal experiences in the Far West in 1875


2


DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN FICTION: From 
IRVING
 and 
HAWTHORNE
 to 
BRET HARTE
 and 
MARK TWAIN


3


DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN POETRY: From pioneer days to 
FIELD
 and 
RILEY


4


DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN DRAMA: From colonial times to the present day






For time, terms, etc., apply to
FREDERICK PAULDING,
No. 47 Donaldson Avenue, Rutherford, N. J.