Joe Callaway

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By popular demand we had Mr. Callaway back for a return engagement and opened the program to the public.  One of the most stimulating and entertaining lectures in a season of top personalities.  Without question ‐ JOE CALLAWAY IS THE BEST YOUNG LECTURER ON THE THEATER TODAY. ‐ A. A. U. W., Jackson, Michigan.

A new program by‐JOE CALLAWAY

Brilliant actor, director.  Needs no stage, no costumes to recreate for his audiences the fun, the pathos, the sparkle of a clown, a lover, a wit‐a multicolored parade of memorable characters ‐ From Athens to Broadway, great scenes from great plays. Also ‐ Broadway, Play by Play.
JOE CALLAWAY
Brilliant Young Actor, Critic and Director of Stage, Screen and Radio…A Magnetic Personality…Presenting Two Delightful Recreational and Informative Programs‐ BROADWAY PLAY BY PLAY, a Dramatic Revue of Current New York Shows, and SNAKESPEARE A LA MODE, a Lecture-Recital with Scenes Enacted in Costume.

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New Program‐FROM ATHENS TO BROADWAY
Great Scenes from Great Plays 

JOE CALLAWAY

JOE CALLAWAY is a many-sided genius, who brings to the platform a rich background of the stage, the screen and the radio.  He has been called the best young lecturer on the theater today.  Martha Scott, movie star, with whom Callaway was associated in a dozen plays when they were featured with the Globe Theater Company, says, Joe Callaway brings to the lecture platform the wit of a comedian, the knowledge of a director and the perception of a critic; for he has been superb as all three.

Mr. Callaway's duties as associate professor of speech at Michigan State College have allowed him to continue his professional activities as guest director with the Blue network and as a lecturer and critic.  At Michigan State College he is also director of radio education.


Mr. Callaway received his academic training and was a part of a dramatic scene at the University of Oklahoma, Goodman Memorial Theater of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.  He began his stage career of over 6,000 performances in both classical and modern productions as a protege of DeWolf Hopper.  He was featured in sixteen different Shakespearean plays as a member of the famous Globe Theater Company, which played to nearly 2,000,00 people at the Chicago, San Diego, Dallas and New York World Fairs.  In New York he appeared in four plays directed by Margaret Webster, internationally famous for her productions, who says, Joe Callaway has great ability.  He is an actor of exceptional talent and varied experience.


His experience as a director is also varied.  He directed a professional stock company at Miami Beach, the San Diego Community Theater, and notably, the Marquette Summer Theater, which he founded and subsequently managed for four Reasons.

In radio he has directed over 150 plays and has acted with Jean Hersholt and other stars of the NBC and CBS networks.  Norman Corwin, foremost radio writer and director, says, Joe Callaway, colleague past and present, but mainly future I have supreme confidence in the contributions he will make to this needy medium.
LECTURE TOPICS
Broadway Play by PlayA dramatic review of current New York shows.

Shakespeare a la ModeA Lecture-Recital with scenes enacted in costume.
Enthusiastic Praise for Joe Callaway
New York Times, Brooks AtkinsonPay suitable attention to Joe Callaway.New York Daily Mirror, Robt.  ColemanOutstanding!Miami, Fla., Miami Daily NewsHe provided a continuous fabric of laughter; was enthusiastically received.The Oklahoma City TimesCallaway turns loose a cyclone of laughs!The Dallas Times Herald, John Wm.  RogersJoe Callaway is outstanding and has consistently proved that he is not only sensitive to Shakespeare the poet, but is exceedingly well qualified to evoke Shakespeare the man of the theater…shows competence and zest.Honolulu AdvertiserJoe Callaway knows his theater, views it with insight, treats it with rare humor and
understanding.Lansing, Mich., Lansing State Journal It was Standing Room Only in Fairchild theater Tuesday evening as the auditorium filled to overflowing for Prof. Joe A. Callaway's Shakespeare a la Mode …His rare capacity for humor was indicated in Dogberry's instructions to the watch from Much Ado About Nothing.No scene was more effective, more indicative of Mr. Callaway's sincerity and artistry in character interpretation than the final scene from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus,…Reinforced with sound effects and special lighting, the response from the audience was fairly electrical.Lansing, Mich., Women's Club, Mrs. Clay CampbellJoe Callaway has all the magnetism and imaginative power of a great artist.Toledo, Ohio, Women's Educational Society, Mrs. C. L. Warrick, Pres.Joe Callaway made a wonderful impression on a large audience and started our season with success.  The audience begged him to continue even after he felt it was time to continue even after it was time to stop.Stockton, Calif. Stockton  RecordFor theater-lovers unable to see the new productions, Callaway's lecture afforded an interesting and entertaining insight into some of he current Broadway successes.  His talent for characterization was put to excellent use, and his lecture was not only informative, but highly entertaining.Toledo, Ohio, School Women's Club, Fern Dickey, Sec'yNothing on the Town Hall Lecture Series in the past several seasons has been more recreational and informative than the Joe Callaway review.  To hear him once is to want him back for a return annual engagement.Oshkosh, Wis., Twentieth Century Club, Mrs. Rohl.  Murray, Pres.Joe Callaway was excellent, his Shakespearean program was instructive and highly entertaining.  To any group contemplating having Mr. Callaway I would say, Don't be afraid of Shakespeare anymore; just sign Joe Callaway and prepare for an hour of real entertainment.
Superior, Wis., The Evening TelegramCallaway in his Shakespearean roles held his audience SPELLBOUND.Walla Walla, Wash., Whitman College, Mrs. Mabel LeeStudents and faculty enjoyed him very much.The Dailey Mining Journal, Manthei HoweJoe A. Callaway has a solid background of training and experience which makes his lecture on plays, something considerably more than a resume of textbook compilation.  His lecture becomes not only informative, but highly entertaining as colored by his humor, telling bits of dramatization, expressive pantomime a satiric glint of the eye, the quirk of an eyebrow, pointing his comment.Lansing, Mich., Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Paul D. Bagwell, Pres.We had Callaway lecture on the theater for our annual ladies' night and there couldn't have been a beater choice.  Everyone was tremendously enthusiastic.Escanaba, Mich., Daily PressCallaway brought gales of laughter…before a packed auditorium…Not only was he amusing, but informative and captivating as well.


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