Frederic Poole: a Chinese dramatic reading

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FREDERIC POOLE
A CHINESE DRAMATIC READING
AND CHARACTER IMPERSONATIONS - SCENES FROM THE FIRST ACT OF
THE YELLOW JACKET
IN GORGEOUS ORIENTAL COSTUME



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FREDERIC POOLE

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LEE SIN
Her fox soul should be released
One of the most lovable characters in the play.  Faithful to his mistress, he is suddenly transformed into an avenging executioner and after a quaint flirtation scene between him and the mischievous plotting little maid, Tso, he executes her, as a substitute for the first wife.


The Bureau Presents
FREDERIC POOLE
IN
Scenes from the First Act of The Yellow Jacket
By the Kindly Courtesy of
Mr. George C. Hazelton and Benrimo
The Authors, and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Coburn
Sole Owners of the Dramatic Rights

The Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain after witnessing the production of The Yellow Jacket, in London, was asked by an incredulous critic whether the play was true to Chinese ideals.  So true, he replied, that it made me homesick.  The Yellow Jacket vividly illustrates the fact that human nature is the same the wide world over.  Its powerful appeal to the human emotions, its tense and novel dramatic situations, the exquisite drollery of its dialogue, its easy humor, tender pathos and deep tragedy made an instantaneous impression in the leading metropo litan centers of the play's premier.  It was termed by the critics of both New York and Chicago as a dramatic event of prime importance, so enthusiastically

FOR a Dramatic Reading of Scenes from The first act of 'The Yellow Jacket,' Frederic Poole is unusually well equipped.  By reason of his many years of travel in, and close study of, the flowery land, he is enabled to invest this epic-making modern classic with the true Chinese atmosphere.  Mr. Poole's is the extraordinarily rare power of making popular a classical recital.  His descriptions of Chinese characteristics, Chinese manners, Chinese morals, the Chinese mind, are both highly humorous and deeply pathetic.  A lengthy experience before the public has given him perfect control of his powerful voice and, even in the more quiet moments of the play, he can be readily understood in the largest auditoriums.  Mr. Poole's every appearance not only spells a return date, but goes over into mathematics and adds from one to twelve extra engagements under other auspicies.




SCENES FROM THE FIRST ACT OF THE YELLOW

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TAI FAH MIN
Tis the command of the son of heaven
Tai Fah Min is the father of the second wife, Duey Jung Fah, who conspires to place his daughter in the position of the first wife.  He produces the Imperial death command and orders Lee Sin to do the deed and remove the first wife.


praised, in fact, that the audiences during the plays stay in both centers of dramatic learning were comprised of cultured and studious people who thus combined entertainment of the highest order with intellectual progress of a profound type.

Immediately after its presentation in America, it was translated into seven languages and produced in some of the most important centers of European culture.  Its conquest of Europe duplicated, if it did not excel, that of America.  It is only thru the charming courtesy of its authors as well as the owners of its Dramatic rights that Mr. Poole is enabled to present one act, the First, a complete story in itself, before lyceum and chautauqua audiences in this country.  The indescribable witchery of the dialogue, the charm with which Mr. Poole is able to invest it, the influence of its high thought and purpose upon the minds of the audience, combine to weave the magic spell that holds all enthralled.  One minute chuckling with laughter at some deliciously humorous bit, the next



A FEW RANDOM ENDORSEMENTS FROM SCRAP BOOK CONTAINING 1000
Save us a date for next fall—we want you again.  Your recital we consider one of the finest things you have ever done and that is saying a great deal, for you know—after six visits—how popular you are in Easton.—H. F. MARX, Sec'y, Easton Public Library.

It is very seldom that all the members find pleasure in the same thing, but your reading is not only unique and entertaining, but educational as well, so those who came for entertainment and those who wished to add to their stores of knowledge were equally satisfied.—GRACE C. SANBORN, Pres., Cantabridgia Woman's Club, Boston.

Dr. Poole's story is easily the most up to date lecture on that subject now before the public.—PITTSBURGH DISPATCH.

Whatever Dr. Poole presents is always well done, and his rendition of 'The Yellow Jacket' greatly pleased a large and discriminating audience.  (Written after the 11th appearance.)—J. B. HENCH, Sec'y., Pittsburgh Academy of Science and Art.

One lady told me she had stood through two of your lectures and that she was willing to stand through two more.—J. B. HENCH, Sec'y., Pittsburgh Academy of Science and Art.

From all quarters I have been hearing that your recent lecture before the Society on 'China' was the most interesting of the season.—LEVI HOLBROOK, Sec'y., Geographical Society of N. Y.




JACKET DONE IN CHINESE MANNER

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WU SIN YIN
I am the most important personage in this play
The pompous Governor of the Province is burdened with two wives and consequently a most unhappy man.  His conspiracy abetted by his second father-in-law to get rid of his first wife and child, is a wonderful bit of delicious humor. and evasion of conscience.


staring at the interpreter through hot, blinding tears, with a feeling that you will never smile again, only to laugh the harder but a moment hence—you realize the power of this great human document, as Mr. Poole reads it, to sway an audience at will.  The Yellow Jacket expresses the warm, quick heart beat of a people who are much misunderstood—withal it is a Universal heart beat, but we do not know it.  Here is a simple little story—a story that a child heart might conceive—told in keenest sympathy, wonderful truthfulness to life and the environment it depicts.  It is permeated with the breath of the East's blue rose; sweet as the zephyr of the Sea; pure as the thoughts of childhood.  Once the message of The Yellow Jacket gets into the soul, it burns like blue fire—it kindles other fires in other souls, it is a story that has charmed the world.  Hear it, as Mr. Poole reads it, and be better for it.

ON THE occasion of Mr. Poole's appearance in your midst he will prelude his reading of The Yellow Jacket with a Chinese Chalk Chat on the Humor of the Chinese written language.  This is an entertainment like none other in the world.  One moment the audience is roaring with laughter, the next, tense in instructive interest.  This program is varied and each illustration is a gem.  As, with crayon and board, Mr. Poole deftly sketches the Chinese characters and traces their origin and meaning, the audience probably for the first time understands that the heathen Chinee is not, after all so heathenish as we had supposed.  This feature of the occasion has been commented upon by a leading bureau manager as an appeal to every class of audience without a single exception.




FREDERIC POOLE'S SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
ALL Mr. Poole's illustrated lectures bear the stamp of Authority.

They are the result of years of arduous travel and life among the people whom he represents and his views are the product of his personal camera operations.

Hence that ever present human touch and intimate familiarity with his subject, while his pleasing personality and racy conversational descriptions illumined with flashes of wholesome humor make his illustrated stories of foreign travel a visual charm and intellectual delight.

His four lectures on China are individual and separate, or one intensely interesting and wonderfully comprehensive lecture.

CHINA. ANCIENT AND MODERN. may be selected, including a combination of the most interesting views from all four.  N. B. Motion pictures provided with all illustrated lectures by special arrangement, though they are adequate and complete without.


PEKIN AND THE GREAT WALL
The crenelated walls of the forbidden city, massive bul-warks and ponderous watch towers all suggest ancient China as depicted in this interesting lecture on the Capital of the Dragon Empire.

The mysteries of the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Hell and the beauties of the Temple of Confucius are revealed in exquisite picture and description.

Curious customs of Chinese weddings and funerals.  The thrilling legend of the Bell tower, Ancient Observatory, Boxer relics, the ship of the desert, Gorgeous Funeral of the late Chinese Emperor.  The beauties of the Nankow Valley, the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Great Wall, and many others.



CANTON AND THE CANTONESE
Canton is the largest city in all China and a fertile field for the artist-lecturer-explorer.  Through his associations with the highest Chinese officials—he was the guest of the Viceroys during this journey through China—Mr. Poole was unusually fortunate in securing a vast quantity of entertaining material, which he most interestingly embodies in this Canton story.  The Pirates retreat, Canton's enormous boat population, crowded street scenes, street barbers, gambling dens and opium smoking, Beautiful Macao, Ancestral Temples, the Flower Pagoda, the Water Clock, Military Academy, Temple of 500 Gods, Marco Polo discovered, Execution grounds, the Head operator, Venice in Celestia, and many others.


Mr. Poole's Chinese Name in Ancient Classic Character



The Great Wall



Venice in China





THE VALLEY OF THE YANG TSE
Along the course of this mighty waterway Mr. Poole penetrated into the heart of the Celestial Empire for over 1,000 miles and the story of this wonderful Yang Tse Valley is replete with ancient historic Chinese achievement, natural beauty, and quaint and curious native customs.  Ancient examination cells in Nanking, Ruins of the Tartar City, the famous Ming Tombs, The Little Orphan Island and its strange legend, Hankow, The Bund, Native industries, Celestial Belles, Golden Lilies and a Jar of Tears.  On the walls of Wuchang, moonlight on the Yang Tse and many others.



MODERN CHINA AND THE REVOLUTION
China in transition is depicted from beginning to end in this unique revelation of China's Great Awakening and in beautiful colored views the New China is seen in a manner never before presented to the public.  Unprecedented opportunities were afforded Mr. Poole to gain access to every phase of the Pacific revolution now going on in China.

Shanghai, the Paris of the Far East, fairy scenes in the Viceroy's garden, Oriental flowers, the reorganized army, the passing of the spinning wheel, the real Yellow peril, Hong Kong, the British Gibraltar in the Far East, Stars and Stripes in the Orient.



PICTURESQUE PANAMA AND THE CANAL
Mr. Poole's story of Panama is the most up to date lecture on that subject now before the public, his third trip to the Isthmus under U. S. Government auspices being taken in May 1916 and he returns with valuable information and illustrations of Uncle Sam's state of preparedness on the Isthmus.  This opens up the question of a possible Far Eastern menace to U. S. interests in the Pacific.

It is a story of not only Locks, Excavations and mighty engineering skill, but human interest and native Jungle life, which in beautiful color views and exclusive and original motion pictures, if desired, present a comprehensive and delightfully entertaining view of America's greatest achievement.



THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION
From the mightiest natural wonder in the world to the greatest and most beautiful international exposition ever produced is the subject of this lecture.

In magnificently colored views the beauties and the awsome mysteries of the Grand Canyon are revealed and then in quick contrast the highest achievements of human endeavor are witnessed in the charming scenes of San Francisco Exposition.

The mighty spectacle is now gone forever, but its grandeurs are preserved for posterity in this beautiful lecture.


At the Ming Tombs



Modern Chinese Troops



Panama Canal in Operation



Exposition Night Illuminations


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