Prof. Charles Lane: humorist

              PROF. CHAS. LANE, Humorist.

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SUBJECTS:

ANALYSIS OF LAUGHTER.
TALKS AND TALKERS.
LESSONS NOT LEARNED IN BOOKS.
A NEGLECTED FIELD OF POETRY.
ELEMENTS OF A STRONG CHARACTER.

Under Exclusive Management in our Territory of
The Mutual Lyceum Bureau, Woodlawn, Chicago.




Opinions of the People.
PROF. CHAS. LANE is beyond all question one of the most natural and spontaneous wits in the Southern States, where there are so many.  Yet his wit is ever used to sharpen some point of truth.  He has an inexhaustible fund of stories, most of them illustrating types of Georgia life, which he tells as no other man on earth could tell them.  You laugh, you cry, you laugh again.  You think, you resolve; as you leave the lecture the world looks brighter than ever before, and you go out into it to do better work.

DR. W. L. DAVIDSON, Chautauqua Manager and Lecturer.

I have heard Bill Nye, Sunset Cox, and many other great humorists, but CHAS. LANE is, unequivocally, the funniest man J have ever heard talk.  Others may amuse, but CHAS. LANE CONVULSES.  You laugh until you hurt.  I have heard him three times and I havn't had half enough of him yet.  He is on our course here this winter, and I anticipate more pleasure from his lecture than from any other we are to have.  You may just say to your friends there that they can't afford to miss him.  While he keeps his audience in a constant fit of laughter, he also hurls great nuggets of truth and wisdom at them that will stay with them after the laugh is over.  He is not simply a funny man.  He is a great scholar, a true philosopher, and an elegant Christian gentleman.

BOOTH LOWRY, Prest. School of Oratory, Jackson, Tenn.

PROF. CHAS. LANE gave two lectures, Analysis of Laughter and Talks and Talkers, at the Waseca Chautauqua Assembly, during the season of 1894, to audiences that were amazed, edified and delighted.  There were constant explosions of appreciative laughter during their delivery and increased weight and better health afterwards.  He is a philosophical and wise teacher, and scored an unbounded success at Waseca.  He is a genuine assembly success.

H. H. JENNINGS, Supt. Waseca (Minn.) Assembly.


PROF. LANE'S lecture on Lessons Not Learned in Books is a combination of wit, humor and wisdom, and defies minute description.  The Professor's fertile intellect, his rare command of language, his keen sense of humor and his magnetic voice form the rarest quarto of attainments.—
Lecture Committee, Newnan, Ga.

PROF. CHAS. LANE, of Atlanta, Ga., appeared twice before our Assembly in 1894, and delighted our people very much.  His wit and humor are clean, his logic telling, his oratory fine.  I commend him to Chautauqua managers as a most helpful and entertaining lecturer.

F. J. SESSIONS, Supt. Waterloo (Iowa) Assembly.

I wish you could have heard PROF. LANE'S lecture on Laughter.  The lecture abounds in the finest humor, the keenest wit, and affords a most delightful entertainment.  Cultured, clever and humorous himself to a rare degree, PROF. LANE has handled his theme in a most attractive manner.

ALFRED H. COLQUITT, U. S. Senator.


At PROF. LANE'S lecture the audience went into convulsions, provoked by his side-splitting caricatures, sallies of wit and humor, and powers of mimicry.  Humor in the man seems to be constitutional and bubbles up continually like a well of water.—
Lecture Committee, San Marcos, Texas

I have heard PROF. CHAS. LANE lecture with delight.  For sense and sound morals, well mixed with fine humor without taint and stain, I know hardly his equal, not his superior.

A. G. HAYGOOD, Bishop Southern Methodist Church.

I know PROF. LANE, of the Georgia School of Technology, and have felt the touch of his rare genius.  As a humorist and entertaining lecturer he ranks among the best on the American platform.

(Bishop) CHAS. B. GALLOWAY.

He is undoubtedly the finest humorist in the South.

SAM P. JONES.

A Georgia Cracker, in the person of PROF. CHAS. LANE, proved a delightful relish in our Assembly program.  PROF. LANE'S lectures are sure cure for torpid liver, despondency, indigestion and blues.  He should have a place on every Assembly platform.

L. O. JONES, President Nebraska Epworth League.

SHERMAN, TEXAS, Jan. 12, 1899.

For pure, sustained humor, chaste sentiment and elegant English, PROF. CHAS. LANE stands first.  For one hour and a half we laughed and cried.  The man who can effect that must be a master.

(Bishop) JOS. S. KEY. MRS. JOS. S. KEY.

PROF. CHAS, LANE is one of the most entertaining lecturers on the American platform.  His lectures abound in the finest thought, sharpest wit, convulsing humor and touching pathos.

(Gen.) JOHN B. GORDON.




The Press Endorses Him.

PROF. LANE would grace any occasion and any platform.  He has no superior as a humorist in the South.—
Atlanta Constitution.


PROF. CHAS. LANE is the most capable man within our knowledge to fill an audience with uproarious delight.—
Nashville American.


PROF. CHAS. LANE fairly discounted Eli Perkins at San Marcus Chautauqua.—
San Antonio Express.


PROF. LANE can put more genuine, clean, fresh fun into an hour than any man in the South.—
Columbus Enquirer.


THE man that PROF. LANE don't make laugh may as well buy a cemetery lot.  He is a dead-shot on blues and torpid liver.  Hear him and you will get a new lease on life.—
Atlanta Journal.


PROF. CHAS. LANE, of Georgia, as a humorous lecturer is without a rival in this Southland.  One has only to hear him deliver one of his matchless addresses to be convinced of his great power.—
North Georgia Chautauquan.


PROF. LANE'S lecture on Talks and Talkers is a masterpiece of English, a bewildering combination of moving pathos and excruciating fun.  He is confessedly the very best humorous lecturer in the South.—
Brunswick Times.


PROF. LANE is an artist in his line.  He can quickly transport his audience from laughter to tears and from tears to laughter.  We would hear him every night in the week, and would then walk a long distance to hear him preach on Sunday.—
LaGrange Reporter.


IN Nashville the audience were carried off their feet by this unique humorist.  There were seams of gold all through the deposit—nuggets of heavy weight here and there.  But the lecturer is pre-eminently a humorist.  The grave theologians lost dignity and silence, laughed, roared, stamped, shook the rafters.  LANE is voted the rarest of humorist.—
Christian Advocate.


PROF. CHAS. LANE, of Georgia, is unquestionably the humorist of the South.  PROF. LANE'S facial expressions are fine, his gestures conspicuously suggestive, and his sense of humor so keen that he can drill it into the most obtuse.  His listeners were so perfectly under his control that he could say laugh and they would go into convulsions.—
Montgomery Advertiser.


PROF. CHARLES LANE, Georgia's famous humorous lecturer, was in the city yesterday, the guest of his old friend, Editor Gibson, of the Hustler-Commercial.  PROF. LANE was en route to Texas, where he has engagements ahead for a month.  As a humorist PROF. LANE has no superiors and few equals.  He has on several occasions charmed large audiences in Rome by his wit, and then in an instant bring tears to their eyes as he pictures some of the pathetic scenes that transpires in rural life in Georgia.—
Daily Hustler-Commercial, Rome, Ga.


PROFESSOR CHARLES LANE, scholar and humorist, lectured at the Lyceum Theatre last night, to a representative, appreciative and fashionable audience.  The lecture was delivered as one of the series under auspices of the Memphis Lecture Association.
PROF. LANE is a medium-sized, typical Georgian, with a blonde mustache, a mild manner, and a simplicity of style that is effective.  His audience was so sympathetic that murmurs of mirth were heard in anticipation of some of the humorist's jokes before their point had been illustrated.  But once did the lecturer attempt to indulge in pathos, and then only for the purpose of demonstrating how near to humor is pathos, and vice versa.
The subject selected for the lecture was Laughter. It was broad enough to prove a vehicle for innumerable jokes, witticisms, puns and anecdotes.  PROF. LANE is a pleasing talker, an entertaining story-teller, a good mimic and a dialectician.  For two hours he kept his audience in a state of laughter.—

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)


The institute entertainment for Tuesday evening was a lecture by PROF. CHARLES LANE, of Atlanta, Ga., on The Analysis of Laughter.  Prof. Ham being unable to be present.  No matter how excellent an entertainer Prof. Ham may be, he was not missed here on Tuesday evening—PROF. LANE filled the bill completely, and the large audience, between laughs, applauded him to the echo.—
The Tribune Daily Republican, (Meadville, Pa.)


A large audience listened to the lecture on The Analysis of Laughter, by PROF. CHARLES LANE.  The speaker entertained his audience for an hour and a half.  He illustrated the different phases of laughter, and mirth-provoking puns, ludicrous situations, Irish, Scotch, negro and Dutch dialects were freely employed until the hearers fairly howled with delight.—
Beaver Daily Tribune, (Beaver, Pa.)




Recent Press Notices
MCMINNVILLE, TENN., NOV., 1900.

PROF. CHAS. LANE delivered one of his inimitable humorous lectures to a very large audience here at the Opera House, Thursday night.  This was PROF. LANE'S third appearance here, and each time he has proven more thoroughly popular and entertaining.  While his lectures are made up largely of anecdotes, and bubble over with humor from beginning to end, yet at the same time they scintillate with beautiful thoughts, glowing truths, and nuggets of wisdom.  While he amuses he furnishes much wholesome food for earnest thought and reflection.


The treat of the evening came in the appearance of PROF. LANE of the Southern Lyceum Bureau, the talented Georgia humorist who lectured before the Florida State Teacher's Association last night.  He was greeted with loud applause, and began his remarks by an apology for his appearance in garments other than the regulation attire prescribed for evening wear.
The subject of his lecture was The Analysis of Laughter, a subject abounding at once in opportunities for the display of erudition, and for the merry phrases in which the lecturer delights.  To attempt a description of the lecture would be rank folly.  To attempt a summary would be nonsense.  Nothing less than a stenographic report would do justice to the subject, and this must needs be accompanied by a vitascopic picture of the man himself in the attitudes that lend life to the subjects with which he deals.
He quoted eminent authority on the subject of laughter from the caustic pen of several eminent English misanthropes, and in lighter vein from the French authors.  Each point was enlivened with jokes and anecdotes, each of which was a hammer tap that drove the subject home into the brain-cells of the listener.
For something over two hours he kept his auditory in a constant fit of laughter, which proceeded partly from the joviality itself, but more from the manner in which it was told.  All in all, his lecture was one of the most succinct that has ever been heard in this section, and will dwell long in the minds of all who listened to it last evening.—

Tampa Times, Tampa, Fla., Dec. 27, 1900.


Students, patrons and friends of the University school to quite a large number last night enjoyed a splendid lecture by PROF. CHARLES LANE, of Georgia, on Talks and Talkers.  PROF. LANE is what might be termed a new-school lecturer.  He employs new ideas and clothes them in attractive present-day garb, and in his subject for last night found a field for the full sweep of his genius for the lecture platform.  It was a splendid compliment to their friends by Messrs.  Wertz and Rhea, of the University School.—
Commercial-Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., Jan., 1901.

MAMMOTH SPRINGS, ARK., Aug. 10, 1900.

The lecture of CHAS. T. LANE, Monday afternoon on The Analysis of Laughter, was different from anything in the funny way we have seen lately; being a Georgian, it goes without saying he is a humorist.  The audience was captured by him and laughed till they were tired.  He may have finished his analysis, if so, we laughed so much we forgot it.


PROF. CHARLES LANE lectured at the Auditorium last night.  The regular place in the Memphis Course was originally assigned to Dr. Hirsh, but owing to the illness of that famous platform artist, PROF. LANE was substituted.  PROF. LANE appeared here only a few weeks ago, and it was only because of his distinguished success on that occasion that every effort was made to have him substituted on the programme.  PROF. LANE has a peculiar gift of humor.  It is the undeniable genius, not the accomplishment of study and association, but the natural expression of extemporaneous wit.  The preeminent object of the platform humorist is to entertain a diversified audience, and this is what the lecture of last evening successfully did.  The audience of last evening was eminently satisfied, and applauded the humorist to a happy conclusion of his lecture.—
Memphis, Tenn., Commercial-Appeal, Jan., 1901.

MEMPHIS, Jan., 1901.

PROF. CHARLES L. LANE, the noted Georgia humorist lectured at the Auditorium last night on the Analysis of Laughter.  The audience filled the house and followed the lecture with a great deal of interest.  PROF. LANE is not a new figure on the local stage.  He has appeared here before and with considerable success.  The mission of the humorist is a loveable one.  It is to carry smiles into the hearts that require them, to brighten dark spots in the lives of the great public, and to trans-place gloom for sunshine.  He also lightens domestic cares and makes the worries of business less significant.  For this he should be encouraged, his mission should be applauded, and only kind words should be his lot in life.  PROF. LANE worked his way carefully at first and finding an established foothold delighted his audience with bits of story.  His object was accomplished and the audience was thoroughly entertained.