Clarissa Harrold

              Clarissa Harrold


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Clarissa Harrold

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Interpreter of Dramatic Art

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CLARISSA HARROLD



Dramatic Reader Interpreter of Plays




Partial Repertoire



THE TRUTH




Clyde Fitch




A comedy dealing with a man's inability to understand his wife's habit of telling fibs.  The heroine lies so charmingly, so insinuatingly, so naturally, that she makes the entire audience at least sympathize with her.




MARY MAGDALENE
.




Maurice Maeterlinck




A strong dramatic play with a deep spiritual significance.  The author portrays with masterly power the elusive character of the Magdalene and the redeeming power of Christ.




WIND TOSSED SAYLES




J. H. Smith




Through the clever artifices of Dolla, the oldest sister, the Sayles family social position apparently becomes fixed.  She finally marries an English lord and engages her sister to an American aristocrat.  Peter Swallow, an old lover of Della's appears on the scene and tells how he used to know her when she lived in Missionary Loop, Indiana.  The play is full of humorous situations and makes its appeal to all who realize that you can fool some of the people some of the time.




EXPERIENCE




George S. Hobart




A strong morality play.  Youth leaves his sweetheart Love and with Ambition goes into the world to seek his fortune.  He meets Experience, who introduces him to Pleasure, Wealth, Snob, Beauty, Poverty, Intoxication and many others, but not until he has met them all does he realize that Love is the only thing worth while, so he returns to her.




HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND




Bernard Shaw




THE MAKER OF DREAMS




Oliphant Down




MISTRESS PENELOPE




Thomas L. Marble




THE TRAVELING MAN




A Lady Gregory Play




BEHIND THE BEYOND




Stephen Leacock




CUTTING FROM 
LADY FREDERICK




W. S. Mangham




THE DAWN OF A TOMORROW




Frances H. Burnett




THE SELFISH GIANT




Oscar Wilde




BIBLE STORIES




EVENINGS WITH MODERN POETS




SHAKESPEARIAN REPERTOIRE






I
N THE GIFTED and charming person of Miss Clarissa Harrold the management presents one of the greatest platform 
finds
 of many seasons.  As is well known to Committees and Bureau Managers generally, it is only occasionally that a new figure emerges from comparative obscurity to illuminate the movement and, by sheer genius, to play an important part in furthering its popularity in hundreds of places where chautauqua and lyceum are already established institutions.




Miss Harrold is an artist of inherited ability really remarkable.  To this she has, by long application and study, added scholarly understanding of her subjects, and ripe experience before the most discriminating audiences.  Her programs are almost startling in their faithfulness to types depicted.  In the entire range of readings offered, it is to be seriously doubted if an artist could be secured who will afford greater instructive pleasure to the people.  Her work is of that high order of excellence that makes it a delight to be associated with her appearance in your town.  With high confidence in her ability to please in a way that only exceptional attractions please, we commend her to you.





Individual Commentaries



MRS. LELAND T. POWERS, 
Boston;


Miss Harrold seems to me to possess every attribute that a good reader should possess—sympathy, tenderness, a loving heart, a keen intelligence, an appreciation of that which is beautiful in literature and in life, a fine sense of comedy, together with a gracious and beautiful presence.  Especially have I enjoyed her readings of plays.




PHIDELAH RICE, 
Principal
, Rice School of the Spoken Word, 
Martha's Vineyard, Mass.;
 
I can speak with genuine enthusiasm of the work of Miss Harrold.  She is gifted with beauty and unusual talent.  Best of all she has a winning sincerity which assures her success with any audience.




M. V. GARRETT, 
Manager
 
The Gettysburgian
, 
Gettysburg, Pa.
; 
Clarissa Harrold had one of the most enthusiastic audiences of the year.  Her pleasing personality won its way into the hearts of the hearers from the very beginning.  While her short stories were very well rendered it was her presentation of 
The Truth
 that brought out her real ability.  Her portrayal of the leading characters was simply marvelous, she produced more favorable comment than any entertainment of the year.




TUESDAY MUSICAL CLUB, 
Pittsburg, Pa.,
 James S. Martin 
Director;
 
I wish to express my appreciation of your fine reading.  Your purity of diction, scholarly interpretation and charm of rendition, afforded me much pleasure.






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