Lou J. Beauchamp: the original humorous philosopher

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LOU J. BEAUCHAMP The Original Humorous Philosopher
The thinker who makes you laugh,
The humorist who makes you think

The Redpath Lyceum Bureau
CHICAGO
And Everywhere



A Word from the Bureau Concerning
LOU J. BEAUCHAMP
MR. BEAUCHAMP has lived a peculiar life.  Losing his mother when a babe, he spent the early years of his life among the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee Indians, and uses many of the customs of the tribes as illustrations in his lectures.  Denied school and college privileges, he was taught his letters by a young girl, at once became an omnivorous reader, and at the age of fourteen was contributing prose and poetry to New York papers, and at twenty was one of the editors of a noted Cincinnati daily newspaper.

He has traveled one million miles in the old world and the new, investigating the lives of the underworld in the slums and dens of the world's greatest cities, writing his experiences for the press.  Because of these unique experiences he brings to the platform gifts that have been given to few others, and his love and sympathy for humanity enable him to use these experiences in his lectures in a way to benefit and bless his hearers.

He has written books that have been translated into foreign tongues, and of which many editions have been sold, and his poems of child-life are found in many collections of poetry, the repertoire of readers, and in scrap-books all over the land.

It is doubtful if any man on the platform causes as much laughter in an evening as does Mr. Beauchamp, yet all the time he is teaching truths that send his auditors out into the world better men and women, determined to do more than ever before to bring sunshine and song into the lives of those with whom they come in contact.

As a Chautauqua lecturer Mr. Beauchamp stands at the top and has never been able to answer all the calls made by Chautauqua managers.  At some of them he has lectured two and three times annually for the past six years.

When a tender influence stole into the heart of Lou Beauchamp and turned his footsteps into the paths of light, a myriad of messages of mirth and happiness were born in his mind—messages which glowed with the awakened love of humanity in his own soul and scintillated with the sunshine of a newly-inspired genius.  Beauchamp is a verbal cyclone, with a laugh and a cry in every minute.  He is a great minister of the Gospel of Sunshine, and thousands of listeners have first seen the light through his ministrations.  He is the most beloved of all the lyceum sojourners, because he has been his own best disciple in the Gospel of Love.



Subjects for the Coming Season

Take the Sunny Side
This lecture has been given eleven times in one city, four times at one Chautauqua, three times in one course, has been heard in every city from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and is recommended for Mr. Beauchamp's first appearance on any course.



The Age of the Young Man
Where the audience has a large percentage of young people this lecture on Success in Life and How to Achieve It, is said by many committees to be at least equal to any lecture on the platform to-day.  One enthusiastic committeeman writes: The good it does can only be told when the books are opened at the last day.  Plenty of humor, but the purpose of the lecture is to inspire and uplift the young people of to-day and show them their opportunities and privileges in this wonderful age and this wonderful country.



Mistakes, or the Blunders of Humanity
The funny and serious errors of the individual and the many, showing how to turn our mistakes to account, and make the best of life.



New Ideas on an Old Subject
A more or less serious presentation of the problems of to-day political and social.  Especially appropriate for Sunday, and where practical ideas on reform are desired.



During his many years on the platform giving his humorous, literary, popular and reform lectures, Mr. Beauchamp has appeared in the larger cities of this country the following number of times:

New York, 7
San Francisco, 14
Oakland, Cal., 30
Washington, D.C., 56
Buffalo, 6
Jacksonville, Fla., 8
Norfolk, Va., 12
Omaha, 7
Boston, 6
Purcellville, Va., 14
Cincinnati, 34
Rochester, N. Y., 9
Chicago, 56
Cleveland, 8
Atlanta, 14
Richmond, 7
Louisville, 14
Milwaukee, 10
Toronto, Can., 22
Silver Lake, N. Y., 22






Personal and Press Notices
MR. BEAUCHAMP has one of the largest collections of personal and press notices of any man in the profession.  Most of the newspaper notices are from a quarter of a column to three columns in length, and he has never seen or heard of an adverse criticism.  Believing, however, that the people do not care to read long criticisms of any lecturer or entertainer, but prefer to get at a glance the opinions of the press and of prominent men and committees, Mr. Beauchamp this season simply offers



A Few Personal Flash-Lights

What Elbert Hubbard Wrote
Say, Beauchamp, you're an awful hard man to follow.  When I got to Marinette everybody was talking about Beauchamp.



What the late Sam Jones said at Roanoke, Va.
Let me tell you people something: the best part of this Chautauqua program is yet to come.  My dear friend Beauchamp will make you laugh and laugh and laugh.  He will make you cry and cry and cry, and he will make you think and think and think.



What Murdock MacDonald Says
(Manager Massey Hall lectures, Toronto, Canada)
Massey Hall seats 5000; we turn people away when Beauchamp is announced to speak.



What D. E. Gardner Says
(Manager Plattville, Wis., lecture course, the oldest in the West)
His lecture was a genuine entertainment, and the truth that he works in did not lose its force by being put in a manner to please the popular taste.



What Rev. Wm. I. Alexander Says
(Elmira, Ill.)
Lou J. Beauchamp is one of the princes of the American platform.  If you want to laugh away the blues and see the sunny side of life, hear him.  You will be repaid a hundred fold for your time and money.



One Bureau Manager to Another
Lou J. Beauchamp has just completed his work in this section and I understand he goes from here to your field; such being the case, allow me to say that without exception he is the most satisfactory lecturer this Bureau ever had on its list.  His work in this part of Pennsylvania won for him the commendation it so richly deserved, and placed this Bureau on a more confidential footing with its patrons who booked through it.



What Prof. Pearson Says
(Editor Talent)
I think I may describe Beauchamp in a phrase which Joel Chandler Harris uses for one of his characters: Goin' 'round doin' good.  I have had the pleasure of meeting him repeatedly, and I have never heard him speak a word of ill-will concerning anybody.  There is nardlv a man on the platform who is not indebted to Beauchamp for a kind word spoken in season, or a friendly hand extended when it was greatly needed.  He is the same on the platform and off it, goin' 'round doin' good.



What Edwin L. Barker Says
(Editor Lyceumite)
Every time Beauchamp turns the audience into a smile he lays a thought in the wrinkle.  A dull point is never felt—somehow he fills it with a story, and the listener keeps company with an idea for a week.  He does not tell a story just for the story's sake—'tis always a medicine-sweetener—and he who can play a successful make-believe game that quinine is sugar, and cure the patient, is a benefactor—doubly so.

We have many teachers who teach readers how to read.  Would not a school for teaching lecturers how to lecture be just as valuable?  Beauchamp could comfortably fill the chair of How to Please.



What Rev. E. B. Bagby Says
(Ninth Street Christian Church, Washington, D. C.)
I wish I could engage you for two such lectures (Take the Sunny Side and Mistakes) in my church every year as long as you live.



What Geo. B. Asbury Says
(Supt. Schools, and Manager Lecture Course, Flora, Ind.)
Praise to whom praise is due.  So let me say that your lecture here has been pronounced the best thing ever heard in the town.



What Homer T. Wilson, Manager, Says
No man has ever appeared on the Colorado Chautauqua platform who has been received with greater enthusiasm, or whose lectures have produced a greater impression, than Mr. Lou J. Beauchamp.



What Jason Scarboro Says
(Supt. Tifton, Ga., Public Schools)
Mr. Beauchamp stands head in our Lyceum class.  He puts more humor and logical reasoning into an hour's entertainment than any man we ever had.  He is a great man and will be more than welcomed here again whenever he can come.  Such men as he are doing this nation great service.



What E. A. Pound Says
(Supt. Waycross, Ga., Public Schools)
We thank you for sending us Beauchamp.  He carried the audience by storm.  If you have any more like him always send them along.  I place him against any of them.  Not only does he keep an audience roaring, but he makes you think and gives you soemthing worth thinking about.





A Few Flash-Lights From the Press

Lynn (Mass.) Item
The wit and mimicry of the speaker threw the audience into paroxysms of health-giving laughter.


Springfield (Mo.) Republican
His logic and eloquence led one to believe he must have had years of training as a lawyer.


Meridian (Miss.) Herald
The universal verdict appears to be that Meridian has never had within her borders a more scholarly, nor a more entertaining speaker.


News-Record, Ft. Smith, Ark.
His happy power of seeing the false alignments of mankind makes him the crowned king of America's platform humorists.


Los Angeles (Calif.) Examiner
Mr. Beauchamp has scored one of the greatest successes ever made at the Long Beach Chautauqua.


San Jose (Calif.) News
No lecturer has ever attracted so much attention or spoken to such large audiences in this city.  It seems he cannot help being interesting, no matter what he talks about.


Hopkinsville (Ky.) New Era
He is a man of extraordinary ability as a thinker and speaker, and his fine talent is consecrated to the highest moral purpose.


Danville (Ill.) Commercial News
Don't fail to hear Beauchamp to-night.  The man is positively irresistibly and ridiculously funny.  And this will be the last opportunity to hear him this year.


Des Moines (Iowa) Capital
He kept the audience in an uproar of side-splitting laughter.  His shafts, pointed with wit, and feathered with humor, had in them enough weight to make them go straight to the mark.


Normal Eyte, State University, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Mr. Beauchamp has a way of illustrating his points with apt stories, and while the mouth is open to laugh, thrusting in a bit of serious thought, which is made doubly effective by the contrast.


Morning Examiner, Ogden, Utah
Not only did he succeed in causing paroxisms of side splitting laughter to spread like contagion through the large audience that packed the Tabernacle to its doors, but he used his sparking wit as a means of inculcating truths that could not have been so tersely stated in any other way.  He is not a humorist but a wit.


Clarksburg (W. Va.) Telegram
Nothing finer has been heard at the Grand Opera House for many a day than the lecture by Beauchamp.  His style is simply inimitable and his swift passing from grave to gay keeps his audience so swayed with a variety of emotions that one weeps and laughs almost in the ame breath.


Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune
Mr. Beauchamp is advertised as a humorist who makes people think, and a philosopher who makes people laugh, and he fully comes up to the advertisement.  For a good share of the time while the lecturer was on the platform last evening the house was convulsed with laughter.  His stories were inimitable and they were told inimitably.  But laughter and stories were not all.  There was pathos as well, and both the humor and the pathos brought home a lesson in the conduct of everyday life.


Sun, Paducah, Ky.
Yes, the great throng was but a great organ, and every hearer was but a string tuned and ready to respond to every touch, and send out praise, laughter, sobs, wails, smiles and approvals.  No man ever visited our city and won greater admiration than did Lou J. Beauchamp.


New Orleans Picayune
He is magnetic, eloquent, logical and persuasive, and the audience felt the force of all these influences.


Toronto (Can.) Daily World
(17 Engagements. Audience 4000-6000)
Mr. Beauchamp's address was the most thrilling and effective ever given under the club's auspices.


San Jose Mercury
The large assembly hall of the High School was packed to the doors last night to accommodate the seven hundred people, young and old, who had gathered to listen to Lou J. Beauchamp, philosopher and humorist, deliver his lecture, Take the Sunny Side.  He was eloquent, humorous, but beneath all his wit and his humor there was a practical lesson for everyday guidance, which will uplift and upbuild those who listened to him last night.  Mr. Beauchamp has lectured over forty times in San Jose.


Daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa
Beauchamp is the best ever.


Star, Independence, Kas.
(Headlines of Two-column Review)
Lou Beauchamp is the king bee of humorists.  Left a great audience with light hearts and aching sides last night.  Two solid hours of sunshine.


Republican-News, Hamilton, Ohio
(At His Home)
There was a laugh or a cry almost every moment of the evening.  The people fairly went wild over the lecture.


Democrat, Hamilton, Ohio
Mr. Beauchamp's lecture was enjoyable, helpful and worthy of the closest attention.  He kept them in a roar of laughter for over an hour with the exception of those times when he was eloquently pressing home some important point which his wit had led up to.


Elyria (Ohio) Reporter
The attendants upon the Lyceum Course had a rare treat last night in the lecture by Lou J. Beauchamp.  The way he packed truth into humor was certainly enjovable to hear.  There was not one dry moment in the hour and a half.




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