Lura Forbes: featuring her own "Main Street Smile Program"

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Lura Forbes
Featuring Her Own 
Main Street Smile Program



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Flashes from the 
Smile
 Program
Lura Forbes

Main Street Types—
Smiles
 from Every-Day Life


Oatmeal's Lumpy!




A domestic panorama.  Three breakfasts—twenty years apart!  You've met these folks.  You'll recognize them instantly.




Fired!




A shop-girl sizes up the 
powers that be
.  Here's a delightful little skit lifted right out of Life's queer story-book.




Mrs. Smith Has the Floor!




—And she leaves no doubt about it in this clever little portrayal of a certain type of ambitious club woman.




The Passing Pullman




An interesting episode on the Twentieth Century—somewhere between New York and Chicago.




Touchdown—Touchdown!




Minnie plays her first football game—from the bleachers!  Not much on technique but weird in descriptive prowess.




Where zat Squeak?




Ma
, 
Pa
, and the demonstrator baptise the new car.  There's some fancy driving—from the back seat, and you can guess who does it.




West of El Paso!




The scene is a desert tank-town station.  The heroine is the lunchroom waitress.  Here's a delicious bit of fun.




Hairpins, Missus?




Life in the 
5 and 10
, as vividly portrayed by Mayme of the notions counter.




Daddy's Lullaby




Re-enactment of a turbulent domestic scene at 3:00 A. M. A strong two-people cast—consisting of daddy and his infant son.



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The Town Gossip Empties the Carpet Sweeper!




She turns the spot-light on the Inner Shrine of the local secret order.  An earful—if you please!




Transfer, Lady?




Mama and little Willie take the street car—and almost get away with it!




The Gold-Digger




She toils not—neither does she spin
.  But here's a little slice of life that brings a tear as well as a chuckle.




Swearin' off the Moonshine!




A picture of the back-woods life in Kentucky.  Told in the quaint dialect of the Kentucky mountaineer.  Humor and pathos blend in this little platform classic.




Feet Hurtin'—Teeth Hurtin'!




Pains and aches—aches and pains!  Hear Aunt Mary tell of her trouble.  Enjoy them—with her!  You'll recognize this dear lady the moment she steps before you.




Where Men are Men!




See your favorite movie hero 
do his stuff
 through the eyes of Helen and Gert, the busy 
woikin
 girls.  You'll find Helen and Gert in every movie theatre—if you'll just listen hard enough.




Italian and Negro Dialect




Here's another field where Miss Forbes excells.  In every program she does some delightful dialect work.  Her Italian and Negro groups are always exceedingly popular.




Lura Forbes
Entertainer Extraordinary

M
ISS FORBES' unusual success lies in her rare ability to make her audiences forget that they are an audience—or that she is an impersonator.  Her style is as frank and unaffected as her manner is gracious, and her skill is as high in serious drama as in comedy.




She reads, in an unusual way, selections that are full of wit, humor and fun—stories of life which portray the most common and yet the most comical.  She sweeps the field in a more general way than the ordinary impersonator; she will compel you to laugh when you have not intended to and the next breath you will thrill with the pain of acute sympathy.




Lura Forbes is not a reader—rather she is a clever actress, a mimic.  She is simple, natural and original in all she does.  You laugh one minute and you wipe away a tear the next.  You find yourself completely lost among the people she portrays.  She is an exceptional artist.




Repertoire



She is featuring for the next season her popular 
Smile
 program.  It is a vivid, fastmoving panorama of 
Main Street
 types.  Miss Forbes describes this program rather effectively as 
Just smiles from every day life
.  This program has become tremenduously popular with local committees, clubs and college audiences.  It is up-to-the-minute in every way, and shows this charming, versatile artist at her best.




A repertoire of play successes is also available, where wanted, including the celebrated play 
Lightnin'
.  She also does 
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
, 
The Deemster
, and has a repertoire of Shakespearian plays if desired.  Also, Miss Forbes has a group of literary programs which are proving extremely popular, especially for literary clubs.




S
HE is an honored graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York, where she studied under the late Franklyn Sargent.  It is an interesting fact that this school is sponsored by David Belasco, John Drew and other celebrities of the theatrical world.  Previous to her work at the American Academy she attended the Chaffee Noble Dramatic School at Detroit for two years.




Miss Forbes has been in the professional field since the year 1922, and in that time she has made a most enviable reputation for herself as an entertainer-artist.  She is one of the most talented and most original young women before the public.  She was reared in the mountains of Kentucky, and achieved her professional education through her own efforts.





Just Lura Forbes



Wherever Miss Forbes appears she is the recipient of warm words of commendation, not only from her audiences but from the newspapers as well.




Following a recent appearance in Chicago the Daily Journal of that city had this to say of her work:  
At first we were reminded of Mrs. Fiske and then it seemed as if the Laurette Taylor type entered into the numbers.  Finally we decided that Lura Forbes was just Lura Forbes, the impersonator, and no one else
.




The Detroit Press commended as follows on an appearance there:  
Miss Lura Forbes is really an artist; every number of her program went over big.  There was something deliciously droll and something rather touching in her impersonations of 
Every Day Life
.  She was called back again and again.  Many of her numbers were original
.






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