Sidney Landon

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Sidney Landon
Exclusive Management, MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU.
Frank R. Morgan, Pres., Orchestra Bldg., Chicago, Ill.




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LANDON
In forming an opinion the ear is a safer guide than the eye.  There are some very ordinary looking men who can tell us great truths.

MR. SIDNEY LANDON is rightfully called a character artist.  He brings to the platform an acute, discerning mind, literary to a degree and possessed of those faculties for the reading of character which make him a success.  Realizing a demand for the best literature properly interpreted, he not only brings you face to face with literary celebrities—authors whom you have met in their books,—but makes you know them better by giving each character a living personality and quoting from his best known works.

Possessing versatility and a vivid imagination, coupled with a keen conception of humanity, he is in a position to give remarkable studies and striking pictures of peculiar and varied types of people, as well as some of our best known great men.

Mr. Landon's work appeals to the popular, as well as the most discriminating audiences.


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Two things are necessary for the attainment of success in any line—a love for it and a knowledge of the necessary means.

THE BRITTON PRINTING CO. CLEVELAND





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Artistic Character Studies of Great Literary Men Past & Present
MR. LANDON in his speaking likenesses of distinguished men of letters, shows a keen interpretation of the best of literature and a careful study of literary characters.  You laugh with Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bill Nye, Josh Billings, Artemus Ward; study that weird genius Edgar Allen Poe and revel in the choicest literary efforts of Longfellow, Kipling, Tennyson, F. Hopkinson Smith and William Makepeace Thackeray.  Aside from this general literary program, Mr. Landon gives studies of Great American Humorists.



Recent Press and Chautauqua Comments
CLEVELAND, O.—The closing number of a very excellent lecture course in Jennings Avenue M. E. Church was given tonight by Sidney Landon on Uncle Sam's Folks.  This proved to be the very best of the entire course.  Landon is a finished artist of rare culture and fine taste.  He is perfectly natural and appeared with ease and unusual grace in all of his characters.  He excelled as Edgar Allen Poe and F. Hopkinson Smith.  Those who have heard Smith declared the impersonation perfect.  His program scintillates with rare wit, rich wisdom and fine philosophy.  He drives the nails home and clinches them with great skill.  Underneath his rich fund of good humor there flows the living stream of helpful lessons in the building of character.  We gladly and heartily recommend him to all committees seeking an entertainer who entertains.—Rev. J. B. McClay, Pastor Jennings Avenue M. E. Church.

Northeastern Ohio Normal College, Canfield, Ohio.—Landon would certainly draw if booked again.  He would draw me quite a distance, if I knew he were to be in the community.—J. F. Guy, President.


LINCOLN, NEBR.—Sidney Landon in Speaking Likenesses of Well Known Characters and the World's Great Men made a big hit.  He explained in his opening remarks that he wished to portray some members of Uncle Sam's family who had become famous.  He had a table on the platform on which were placed wigs, cosmetics and other make-up articles to aid him in giving the delineations.  He took up Mark Twain first and rendered a speech which the famous humorist delivered on the occasion of his seventieth birthday at a banquet tendered to him at Delmonico's.  Landon then made up like Poe and recited Annabel Lee.  An imitation of Goldstein, the Brooklyn Hebrew, and the Hoosier from Green's Corners, Posey County, Indiana, were vociferously applauded.  He also made up like General Lee and recited an address which the former made at a college commencement.—
Nebraska State Journal.


PHILADELPHIA, PA.—A fine program and enjoyed by all.—
Record.


NEW YORK, N. Y.—A clever character impersonator.—
Telegram.


WILKESBARRE, PA.—Sidney Landon, impersonator, was the entertainer at the Young Men's Christian Association last night, the first of the institute entertainment course.  His impersonations were exceedingly clever and the audience was kept in a state of continual merriment.  Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, F. Hopkinson Smith and other literary men were impersonated, not only in voice and story but in personal appearance, by the use of cosmetics, wigs, etc., which were applied in full view of the audience, the entertainer keeping up his monolog meanwhile.  These were given as representing part of Uncle Sam's Family, and other characters were included, such as the Hebrew merchant, the Indiana farmer, the Illinois German rendering his first political speech, and finally two young society ladies as parlor entertainers.—
Morning Record.


BALTIMORE, MD.—Mr. Sidney Landon, a well known character delineator, gave an interesting entertainment last night at the Central Young Men's Christian Association, Cathedral and Franklin streets, before a large and appreciative audience.  Mr. Landon's subjects were Uncle Sam's Family, Our Folks, and Man—His Peculiarities.  Mr. Landon is an apt mimic, and possesses a keen sense of humor, with a rare faculty of imparting it.  His impersonation of Mark Twain was exceptionally good.  He is an expert on make-up.—
American.


MT. VERNON, ILL.—Sidney Landon made a great hit with the audience in his character delineations.  His impersonations of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and F. Hopkinson Smith were marvels, and they, along with other types, were not only entertaining but they were an art.  The audience was with him from the start and the Chautauqua management is to be congratulated on securing so versatile and entertaining a manager for this season's assembly.—
Daily News.


GUTHRIE, OKLA.—Sidney Landon, a scholarly young man, made a great success of his interpretation of famous characters last night.  It was far beyond the realm of mere imitation.  He had for his subject, High Ideals of Literature.  The men impersonated and quoted from were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Psalm of Life; Edgar Wilson Nye, The Boy; Rudyard Kipling, The World's Last Painter; Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee; Mark Twain, seventieth birthday speech; Robert E. Lee, Duty.
The make-up idea was used to further the impressions made by quotations from these eminent idealists.—

Leader.


GREENVILLE, S. C.—Mr. Sidney Landon, a character artist who has no superior, was the program last night and he entertained and delighted a full and appreciative house with his delineations of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, the Indiana Hoosier, and other characters of note, finishing up a most pleasant evening with a speaking likeness of one of the greatest and grandest heroes of the world, Robert E. Lee.—
News.


WAYCROSS, GA.—One of the most entertaining numbers ever given on the Lyceum platform was the one given last evening at the Central school auditorium by Sidney Landon.  Beginning with a characterization of Longfellow he held the audience for two hours with his wonderful work.  Not only did he appear like the characters he represented but he imitated the mannerisms of those whom he impersonated.  He proved himself an artist in every sense of the term.  There was to his entertainment an uplift which was most wholesome.  It was a feast from an artistic and literary standpoint and enjoyable in every way.  All agree that Landon scored a triumph.  All agree that he must come again.  He was good, he was better for he was great.—
Daily Journal.




Sidney Landon Character Artist

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Speaking Likenesses of Great Men
MR. LANDON has achieved success as a character artist.  The secret of his success lies in his genuine and lofty determination to excel.  Richly endowed by nature with a versatility that is extraordinary, he has added much by experience and culture.  His art is to interpret life, and he does this with all the varying shades and subtle emotions peculiar to humanity.  His sympathetic nature and keen perception, coupled with his genius, enable him to present a great variety of characterizations, and he has carefully arranged his programs so they delight the popular as well as the literary audience.

Mr. Landon's entertainment subjects are as follows:

Great Literary Men: Past and Present
Uncle Sam's Family
Man: His Peculiarities


In presenting these character studies Mr. Landon uses wigs and paints and has raised the use of the much abused make-up from the realm of novelty to the domain of art.  All character studies are made up in full view of the audience with an interesting introduction of each.


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In GREAT LITERARY MEN: PAST AND PRESENT (with the use of wigs and paints, an art of which he is master) Mr. Landon presents Speaking Likenesses of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Hopkinson Smith, Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, James Whitcomb Riley and other literary characters with such artistic finish that we are actually brought into their presence.  Mr. Landon not only looks like these great personages, but he quotes from some of their finest works.

UNCLE SAM'S FAMILY is a carefully compiled program of character studies easily recognized as true to life.  People we meet daily, the man about town, our folks here at home, from Uncle Zed Wilkins of Vermont, Ikie Ikenstein of Fulton street, Brooklyn, Herr Schultzer, politician, of Milwaukee, to Ole Nelson of South Dakota.  Also some of Uncle Sam's Celebrities, including two of the greatest characters in the annals of history, are presented.

MAN: HIS PECULIARITIES is an entertainment of sketches that illustrate some of the peculiarities of the race, a combination of character delineations given in prose, verse and song, in which Mr. Landon proves that he is a close student of his fellowman, is an apt mimic, possesses a keen sense of humor, and a faculty of imparting it to others.

MR. LANDON'S work is peculiarly adapted to the needs of the present day lyceum platform.  While it supplies in the fullest measure the constantly increasing demand for novelty, it possesses, in addition to its universally conceded artistic excellence, an innate dignity, grace, and refinement, and has all the fun and variety with the necessary merit to make it worth while.



Character Studies from Life

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