The unknown soldier speaks: Edward A. Wright

              A DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION OF THAT POWERFUL PLEA FOR PEACE BY EDWARD A. WRIGHT

EDWARD A. WRIGHT


The Unknown Soldier Speaks BY JOHN HAYNES HOLMES


FOR many years Edward A. Wright has had an enviable reputation as an actor and dramatic entertainer on the Lyceum and Chautauqua platform.  He has appeared before more than fifteen hundred audiences throughout thirty-two states under the management of such well known organizations as the Redpath, Loar Independent, Midland, Standard, and Associated Bureaus.

With all Europe on the verge of a conflagration that would make the world war look like child's play, Mr. Wright, as many others, has been impressed with the very great need of a concerted effort for peace.

In keeping with this universal demand, he has thrown all his efforts to that end, and is now presenting his interpretation of that famous plea for peace, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS by John Haynes Holmes.

In this program Mr. Wright has come into his own as a dramatic artist and lecturer.  Whether before church or civic groups, high school or college organizations, it has already proved to be one of the strongest and most worth while programs available today.

It is a dramatization every real American should hear!


Comment
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS by John Haynes Holmes is a dramatic reading of graphic power.  The message of the lecture is conveyed by subtle art.  Thru the medium of drama a strategic truth is presented for our bewildered post-war world.  The content should create that community conscience which would make a recurrence of conflagration impossible.

Mr. Edward A. Wright has the native talent and the trained artistry for giving this lecture.  He has the personal persuasion on the crucial issue.  He has the stage training and professional experience for the presentation.  There is strength and splendor in his voice and perfection in enunciation as well as accuracy of dramatic characterization.

There is no truth more urgently needed at the moment than the socially intelligent view of patriotism as portrayed in this masterful reading.  I wish that Mr. Wright could give the lecture, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS, on every college and high school and civic platform in America before it is too late.

C. CLIFFORD BACON, Minister
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Marshalltown, Iowa

I want to express to you my personal appreciation for your excellent presentation of 'THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS' by John Haynes Holmes.  Nothing but the most favorable comments have come to me regarding the evening's program.  There were many in the audience who declared that it was the most effective peace address ever given in Ames.

NELSON P. HORN
Director of Religious Life
Iowa State College, Ames


In his presentation, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS, Mr. Wright sent the students and faculty members grasping for superlatives.  It was the outstanding feature of the college chapel exercises this year.
IOWA WESLEYAN NEWS
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa


Mr. Wright is a great artist, but he can never hope to move an audience more completely than he did the one in attendance last night.
PORTSMOUTH (N. H.) HERALD

There is no need to tell you that you made the UNKNOWN SOLDIER live again and that his message certainly struck home to each and every one of the students.  I consider it one of the finest assemblies we have had and the best on world peace.  I hope you will have the opportunity of presenting this to many, many high school groups.  This is certainly an opportune time for such a message.

E. WOLFE, Vice Principal
Glendale High School, Glendale, Calif.


THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS by John Haynes Holmes is one of the most dramatic lectures ever written, and Edward A. Wright did it full justice before an audience that was deeply moved by his realistic presentation.
BURLINGTON (Iowa) HAWKEYE-GAZETTE

We want to thank you for the very fine interpretation you gave us.  The club feels that this has been one of the outstanding presentations of the year.

A. O. BISHOP, Secretary Lions Club
Marshalltown, Iowa

I am positive that the impression left with our students by your interpretation will remain with them throughout their lives.  Your dramatic presentation will accomplish more in the effort to portray and teach the futility and utter stupidity of war than the school can hope to do in all of its education for peace.

In addition to the content of the reading and the high quality of your dramatic interpretation of it, your own intense sincerity of purpose lent effective support of the whole theme to the reading.  It was a profound message—and by far the best observance of Armistice Day that we have had.

D. W. MILLER, Principal
William Horlick High School, Racine, Wisconsin