Evelyn Bargelt Concert Company

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EVELYN BARGELT




Evelyn Bargelt And Her Company



Miss Evelyn Bargelt is one of the best known entertainers in the Lyceum world today.  From East to West and in the South she has appeared on hundreds of Lyceum courses.  Beginning to draw as a small child, she later pursued her art studies in the Art Institute, Chicago, and her studies in vocal interpretation in the Cumnock School of Oratory.  While in Chicago recently, the Omega Upsalon Sorority, one of the most exclusive fraternities at Cumnock School, gave a dinner in Miss Bargelt's honor at which time she was duly initiated into that organization as an honorary member.  Mrs. Isabel Garghill Beecher is also an honorary member of this organization.





Drawings As Beautiful As Paintings



With her crayons of different colors, Miss Bargelt produces before her audiences many landscapes which appear as beautiful as paintings while her humorous drawings are as funny as the comic section of the Sunday papers.  While her pictures are taking shape under her deft fingers, she charms her hearers with flashes of wit and humor.





Audience Melted To Tears



She usually gives one reading during the evening which occupies twenty minutes or more, and, as she talks, she carries the audience from one scene to another in the story she is relating at all times filled with enthusiastic interest.  Best of all, these stories often carry with them a lesson which leaves the audience better for having attended.  It is not unusual for many people in the audience to be melted to tears during one of these renditions.  The drawings together with the words serve to make the rendition as a whole decidedly realistic.





Showered With Requests For Pictures



At the close of an evening's entertainment, the audience usually crowds about the easel upon which Miss Bargelt has been working and she is showered with requests for the pictures she has made.  She gladly distributes them while they last and it is safe to say that her work adorns the walls of homes in nearly all the states where the Lyceum course has become an institution.




Miss Bargelt has just recently returned from Boston where she has been preparing a new program for the forthcoming season with the help of Mr. Grilley of Rogers & Grilley.






The Magic Paper (
Reprint from Nov. 1910, Lyceumite & Talent, the Lyceum Magazine
)



Interesting Experience of Miss Evelyn Bargelt, of the Bargelt Concert Co., in a Pennsylvania Town




Miss Evelyn Bargelt, the cartoonist of the Bargelt Concert Co., and one of the favorites on the lyceum platform, met with an interesting incident in a Pennsylvania town which is well worth relating.




At the close of the entertainment a man in the audience came up to her and asked if he might take down the easel on which she had been drawing.  She assured him that nothing would afford her greater pleasure.  Going to the easel he took down the paper that was unused and put it on the floor, then got down on his hands and knees and began rubbing it vigorously.  After awhile he arose and said:




Why, it's just common paper, isn't it?




Yes, why?
  replied Miss Bargelt.




Well,
 he said, 
we saw your show last Monday in our town and one of the fellers said he just knew very well that you never drew those pictures off hand.  He said that you had some kind of paper that when you rubbed it, them pictures came out, so I just came over to see.




And he went back to inform the 
fellers
 that they were mistaken.




Another evening Miss Bargelt found that she was facing no less than three rows of small boys in the front seats.  Unlike most entertainers, Miss Bargelt really enjoys children in her audience.  Probably this is because she never fails to get their attention from the very start.



Well, on this particular evening, the boys exhibited the greatest

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Miss Evelyn Bargelt Before an Audience

 interest in the pictures.  One little fellow especially, sat on the edge of his chair and watched her in such open eyed wonderment, that Miss Bargelt was attracted to him and, when she had finished a very bright landscape, she looked down at the little lad and smiled.  In response he leaned forward and in a hoarse whisper, plainly audible all over the house, said:



Say, you're a peach!




Everybody laughed, long and heartily, and Miss Bargelt was obliged to return time after time.




Miss Bargelt's home is in Traverse City, Mich., where she owns a little fruit farm and summer home four miles out of town on Grand Traverse Bay.  Summers she goes there and sets up her easel and works out her program for the next season, fishes and goes boating, picks cherries and cultivates a garden.






Miss Bargelt at Home (
From the Lyceum News of Aug. 1911
)


Miss Evelyn Bargelt's summer home, 
Oriole Lodge,
 is about four miles from Traverse City on Grand Traverse Bay, there being a nice little orchard back of the house, and when the season is good, there are cherries to ship.  There were about a thousand new trees set out two years ago that are doing nicely.  Down


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Miss Bargelt's Studio


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In Front of Oriole Lodge

 on the beach, near enough to the water so that on a stormy day the spray beats against the door, is a little log house which Miss Bargelt uses as a studio.  The waves make an excellent audience—they just roar whether they see the joke or not.  Miss Bargelt's only regret is that her season there is nearly always short.


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Oriole Lodge



Draws For That Noted Southern Paper—The Atlanta Constitution


Miss Evelyn Bargelt, the clever young cartoonist who was in Atlanta not long ago, and who has been making a tour in the south giving exhibitions of her work, drew for the Atlanta Constitution, while there, the accompanying sketch, which was drawn from the groups of young people she saw during the sorority

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Cartoon Drawn by Miss Bargelt for The Atlanta Constitution

 convention.  
I found the south just as I had expected, from the traditional standpoint.  All the girls are beautiful and all the men polite, and my experience here the past few weeks has proven that southern hospitality is boundless,
 were among the graceful things Miss Bargelt had to say about the south.



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