Charles H. Plattenburg: lecturer

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Charles H. Plattenburg—Lecturer


CHARLES HOWARD PLATTENBURG

Announcement
NO one on the lyceum platform has risen more rapidly and given such universal satisfaction as Charles Howard Plattenburg.  The season just closed has stamped him as a truly great lecturer and an unqualified success.  Mr. Plattenburg is a born orator and has scored many triumphs upon the platform.  While in college he responded to a toast at a great banquet at Columbus, Ohio.  Many noted men were on the program among them, Wm. McKinley and Congressman J. J. Lentz.  The morning papers stated that The little lad from West Virginia made a hit.  At a great international convention of one of the great Protestant churches held at Omaha a few years since, he delivered an address to twelve thousand people which the associated press reported the most brilliant and eloquent of the entire convention.

The Hon. Cato Sells, former U. S. attorney for Iowa, says, I regard C. H. Plattenburg as one of the most accomplished and effective platform orators in my acquaintance.  He is highly educated, is a student and philosopher, has traveled extensively, has had large contact with his fellows both at home and abroad, is full of the milk of human kindness, fully appreciates the sublime and humorous and paints in beautiful and eloquent language, alike, the serious and frivolous thing of life.  He is always high minded, instructive, entertaining and well worth the time of all who appreciate a really good lecture.



LECTURES

Here and There: Now and Then
In this lecture Mr. Plattenburg in a semi-humorous vein compares social life in Europe and America.  In an entirely unique and original manner he discusses woman suffrage, disarmament, international marriages, etc.



The Man Above the Mob
This is the subject of Mr. Plattenburg's newest lecture.  It has been given with great success during the Chautauqua season just closed.  By many it is considered Mr. Plattenburg's strongest lecture.



Worms Beneath the Bark
In this lecture Mr. Plattenburg deals sledge-hammer blows at existing evils in modern society.  This lecture has been given in many states and has everywhere given universal satisfaction and is recommended for his first appearance on any course.



Morning Talks at Chautauqua
Mr. Plattenburg is prepared to make a series of morning Chautauqua talks on Civic Improvements.  These talks embrace such subjects as City Beautiful, Spotless Town, Home Loyalty, Trading at Home, Are the Churches Doing Their Duty, Conservation of our Children.  These were given with great success at the following representative Chautauquas during the past season: Newbury, S. C.; Lebanon, Ky.; Charleston, Ill.; Williamsburg, Iowa; and Richwood, W. Va.






PERSONAL COMMENTS

Your Lecture Was Great
I write to say that you made the hit of the Chautauqua.  The president of the association and many others have so pronounced.  Your lecture was great.  You held your audience spell-bound from start to finish.—BOOTH LOWREY, Popular Lecturer and Platform Director.



Delivered in a Telling Way
The lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, is packed full of interesting and instructive thoughts.  It is well seasoned with humor and delivered in a telling way.  It is one of the strongest lectures it has been my pleasure to listen to and will make good anywhere.—O. O. SMITH, D.D., Pastor First Congregational Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa.



Wonderful Descriptive Power
Charles Howard Plattenburg is a lecturer of the first rank.  His mind is analytical, his descriptive powers are wonderful, and his style of speaking is most fascinating.  His lectures are built around great principles, and instruct those who hear them.—H. A. RODEE, Manager Ruskin Park Chautauqua, Forestburg, S. D.



Everybody Satisfied
Charles Howard Plattenburg delivered his lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, to an audience of three thousand people last night at the Atlantic Chautauqua.  His lecture is chuck full of eloquent facts and shows great research and study in its preparation.  It is distinctively a lecture for the Chautauqua platform and everybody should hear it.  It is delivered in a very forceful manner and he held the unflagging attention of everybody to the last sentence.  Everybody satisfied.—H. M. BOORMAN, Lecturer and Platform Manager, Atlantic, Iowa.



No Superior as a Lecturer
He is most interesting, pleasing and instructive as a platform speaker.  I consider that he has no superior as a lecturer.—HON. M. J. TOBIN, U. S. Revenue Collector.



Electrifies His Audience
C. H. Plattenburg gave his lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, from our Chautauqua Platform last August.  He captured his audience at the beginning and held it to the end.  Mr. Plattenburg is a gifted orator who electrifies his audience with his eloquence.  No other gift bestowed upon man exceeds the gift of eloquence and Mr. Plattenburg has the gift and knows how to handle it.  Worms Beneath the Bark is a beautiful word picture, that is pleasing, entertaining and instructive.—GEORGE N. URICE, Secretary, Vinton, Iowa, Chautauqua.



A Great Speech
Your address on Saturday evening was one of the two greatest speeches of the Omaha National Convention.  I remember it with a great deal of pleasure.—B. L. SMITH, Secretary of the American Christian Missionary Society.



An Ideal Lecturer
His wit, vocabulary resources, expressive and descriptive power, together with his magnetic personality, leave no doubt in the minds of his hearers, of the ideal lecturer and orator.—HATTIE BELLE BURRELL.



Rather Extravagant
Few of us ever have or ever will hear another equal to him in purity, beauty and dignity of oratory.—REV. E. C. LOCKHART, Des Moines, Iowa.





SOME RECENT PRESS NOTICES

MARSHALL (Mo.) PROGRESS.
He has as a speaker that attractiveness which nothing short of the glowing genius of an orator can command.


LEXINGTON (Mo.) INTELLIGENCER.
His speaking is wonderful, almost phenominal.  His mind, almost without effort, seizes the important parts of his subject, which he presents, with many appropriate illustrations to his auditors.  His spartan-like convictions cause him to speak with convincing force, interest and zeal.  His easy, rapid and broad classifications enable him to speak without being tedious and tiresome to his auditors.


MIDDLEBURG (Ind.) INDEPENDENT.
Those who heard the lecture by Plattenburg last Friday night are unanimous in attesting to its cleverness and eloquence and the power of thought and presentation.  His sallies of wit and touches of penetrating humor in illustration of the significant points of his lecture sufficed to stamp more indelibly the necessity for right ideals and unselfish living.


VINTON (Ia.) TIMES.
As a public speaker Mr. Plattenburg has few equals on the American platform.  He possesses in a marked degree the power to please and entertain.  There are no painful pauses in his address, no stammerings, no hesitations.  He has a ready wit and his illustrations are always apt and to the point.  He strays with his listeners by the babbling brook and adroitly leads him up to the mountain peak.  Through the entire journey there is no thought of returning, no desire to retrace the steps, for each newly discovered spot is of greater interest than the one just behind.


BATTLE CREEK (Mich.) SUNDAY JOURNAL.
(Extract from two-column Review.)—It was a profound discourse, and so graceful withal in its illusions and descriptions, so entertaining with its humorous anecdotes that it had the effect of a powerful stimulant.  Last night his audience saw with his eyes the peerless Yungfrau of Switzerland, her snowy peak glorified by the sun's rays imprisoned in its sparkling crystals.  He painted mountain stream and forest with such vibrating picture words that they carried with them sound, scent, sensation.  The conclusion came all too soon judging from the reluctant steps of the people as they turned to leave the auditorium.


KING CITY (Mo.) DEMOCRAT.
It is seldom that a platform speaker pleases everybody, but we have yet to hear of a single knocker on Chas. Howard Plattenburg, in his Worms Beneath the Bark.  This is conceded to have been among, if not the best, lecture ever delivered from a King City platform, and we have had some top-notchers.


SULLIVAN (Ind.) DAILY TRIBUNE.
Mr. Plattenburg held the audience spell-bound for an hour and a half, during which time they listened to his masterful lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, which is a rare combination of wisdom, wit and pathos.  As an orator he ranks among the foremost of the day.  His appearance is pleasing, his enunciation plain and his delivery forcible and as a whole the audience was highly pleased.


MALVERN (Ia.) LEADER.
Mr. Plattenburg was a new man to us but he surely made good.  For over an hour he held his audience spellbound with his eloquence and humor and with the splendid thoughts he had to present.  Mr. Plattenburg is a popular lecturer of unusual merit, both in what he says and how he says it.  His lecture while entertaining and humorous in large degree, yet carries with it a message.


LAFAYETTE (Ind.) DAILY JOURNAL.
Charles Howard Plattenburg, of Wyoming, newspaper man, minister, lecturer, was introduced to an expectant audience in the English Lutheran church last evening and gave his hearers the lecture that has made him famous, Worms Beneath the Bark.  The audience was attentive from the start and went away entertained and pleased.  The lecture was intended to be humorous and is humorous.  But, behind the smiles and laughs, there are many forcible truths and some vivid object lessons that make an impression that should last through life.  Mr. Plattenburg has a pleasing personality and is a splendid entertainer.


FARMINGTON (Ia.) NEWS.
C. H. Plattenburg took his audience by storm.  He is a little fellow, but he is bigger than he looks when he gets turned loose.  He is an optimist who finds the best in conditions some people blame the most.  He is keen, witty, bubbling over with mirth, but every sentence he utters has a meaning and he strikes sledge hammer blows at the evils underneath the bark of our body politic.  His lecture, Worms Beneath the Bark, strikes hard at the follies of modern life.


BEDFORD (Ia.) FREE PRESS.
Mr. Plattenburg certainly made good with his lecture on Worms Beneath the Bark.  It truly struck the popular chord and to quote the platform manager, Mr. Goodsell, It certainly had excellent remaining facilities.
Dr. Plattenburg is rather small in stature, but he is a whirlwind when he gets in action.  His style is clear and graphic and he punctuates his periods with a force and conviction that is irresistible.



MARSHALL (Mich.) DAILY NEWS.
Dr. Plattenburg is an editor-preacher, has a masterly command of the English language, a pleasant voice and a message which reached the hearts of those who attentively listened.



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