The Famous Almondbury Hand Bell Ringers: champions of England

              THE BEST COMPANY OF BELL RINGERS IN EXISTENCE
Second Season in America
The Famous Almondbury Hand Bell Ringers

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CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND

Mr. B. LODGE, Conductor
MR. G. H. GODWARD
MR. J. H. DAWSON
MR. H. HARRISON
MR. J. STANSFIELD
MR. A. JENKINSON

With their Fine Peal of 162 Bells

MADE BY MEARS OF LONDON

WINNERS OF NINE FIRST AND EIGHT SECOND PRIZES
SEVEN GOLD MEDALS AND TEN SILVER MEDALS

Assisted byE. STANLEY NICHOLS
the inimitable humorist, entertainer, and fun maker



EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
BOSTON AND CHICAGO





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THE FAMOUS ALMONDBURY HAND BELL RINGERS
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND

WHAT MANAGERS SAY. — BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM NUMEROUS LETTERS.
Many of our patrons have voluntarlly declared this the best company ever heard here.

A. W. HICKS, Gen. Sec'y Y. M. C. A. Winston-Salem, N. C., March 20, 1902.

Everybody in the audience was satisfied and highly pleased.  A number of people have said that it was the best thing on the course.  They made a great hit.

J. M. HAMILTON. Lebanon, O., March 21, 1902.

Would be very much pleased if we could get them on our course next year.  The best thing by far we had on our course this year.

C. E. TROXEL. Wolcottville, Ind., March 29, 1902.

I cannot 'imagine their failing to please any audience.  Their work is very beautiful and artistic.'  We certainly would like to have them again.

Philadelphia, Pa., March 19. CHAS. H. WEVILL.

More than pleased.  Entertainment was first class in every way.  We consider it the leading one amongst our list of very good attractions.

Ashland, Wis. F. G. BARDON.

Very fine.  Drew the largest audience of the season and in my judgment would take better next appearance.

HENRY HOLZAPFEL, JR. Hagerstown, Md., March 20, 1902.

This entertainment was one of the best, if not the best that we had in our course this season.  Most emphatically they are a success.

FRANK CHENEY. Elkhart, Ind., March 20, 1902.

Gave good satisfaction.

W. C. ROBINSON, Sec'y.

The company is the best one in its own line that we have heard.  We think they would bear repeating.

C. A. WHITE, Allegheny Star Course. 1112 Park Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa., April 3, 1902.

Were easily the most popular entertainers in our whole course, and we should look upon their re-engagement for next year as a matter of course.

W. B. WHITING, Treas. Y. M. C. A. Milford, Mass., March 20, 1902.

So well pleased would heartily favor their return next year.

A. R. BARTHOLOMEW, Salem Reformed Church. Allentown, Pa., March 19, 1902.

Gave splendid satisfaction.

H. L. HEINTZ. Marshalltown, Ia., March 20, 1902.

The concert was novel and thoroughly enjoyed.

Beaver, Pa., March 20, 1902. ARTHUR STAPLES.

One of the best entertainments of the number.

ED E. ALESHIRE, Pres. Stanberry, Mo., March 29, 1902.

The Ringers are good enough for any audience.

Ottawa, Ill., March 24, 1902. A. J. STEELMAN.

Gave entire satisfaction here.

WM. C. BIRELY. Frederick, Md., March 20, 1902.

Though we had anticipated something very fine, the result exceeded our expectations.

A. G. AIGLER. Tiffin, O., March 26, 1902.

I considered the Bell Ringers first class and was very much pleased with them.

T. B. TAYLOR, Chairman. Hampton, Ia., March 20, 1902.

Gave quite general satisfaction.

GEO. B. HANNA, Pres't Y. M. C. A. Charlotte, N. C., March 31, 1902.

They give a fine entertainment, and our people were loud in their praise.

E. C. VAN NESS, Y. M. C. A. Owosso, Mich., March 24, 1902.

Our patrons want them again.

D. D. DUKES. Findlay, O., March 25, 1902.

First class in their line.

C. H. HORTON, Chairman St. Johnsbury Lecture Course.

Very much pleased.

H. C. SNEAD, Sec'y, Lynchburg, Va., March 31, 1902. Y. M. C. A.

Gave universal satisfaction.

D. B. CHENEY. Racine, Wis., April 4, 1902.

Gave perfect satisfaction.

L. M. JONES. Johnson, Vt., March 20, 1902.

Gave us excellent satisfaction.  Would be pleased to have them again if possible.

Lewistown, Pa., March 21, 1902. S. L. HANAWALT.

Gave us a very pleasing entertainment, and we were entirely suited.

C. C. BOYLE. White River Junction, Vt., March 19, 1902.

Excellent; the best on our course this year.

C. E. SURDAM, Ch. Com. Morristown, N. J., March 20, 1902.

Very much lauded.  People say it was the best entertainment we have had for years.

THEO. ANDERSON. Dixon, Ill., March 23, 1902.

Delighted our audiences and in every way put up a first-class entertainment.

H. J. HILL, Fin'l Sec'y.

A very excellent entertainment.

O. P. FAIRFIELD. Alfred, N. Y., March 19, 1902.

We were well pleased with the bell ringers.

W. D. FELLOWS. Fall River, March 20, 1902.

A fine attraction and gave us good satisfaction.

Winona, Minn. J. F. KATES, Sec'y Y. M. C. A.

Gave good satisfaction.

W. T. PITNER. 
Clinton, Ia., March 21, 1902.

Gave the very best of satisfaction.

W. A. LLOYD. Gen'l Sec'y Y. M. C. A. 
St. Joseph, Mo., March 21, 1902.

It was the verdict of all that it was the finest entertainment ever given in Greenport.

DR. C. C. MILES. 
Greenport, N. Y., March 19, 1902.

Bell Ringers are all right.

E. W. CAMPBELL.

For Lyndonville Lecture Course. 
Lyndonville, Vt., March 19, 1902.

Exceptionally good.

W. ELLISON, Sec'y. 
Campello, March 20, 1902.

They were very good.

A. M. CLEMENCE. Norfolk, Va., March 19, 1902.

Everybody was pleased.

H. P. GODDARD. Minneapolis, March 19, 1902.

Gave the best satisfaction in Ironwood, Mich., of any number of the season.

L. L. WRIGHT.

Gave us a very good entertainment.

Westfield, Mass. H. S. EATON.

They are good ringers.

C. C. WILLS. Worcester, Mass., April 15, 1902.

One of the best attractions on our course.

JAS. P. STUBBS, Gen'l Sec'y. 
Portsmouth, Va., March 20, 1902.

Very satisfactory and interesting concert, and showed themselves to be masters of the art.

Cincinnati, O., April 8, 1902. C. C. BENEDICT.

Entire satisfaction.  Would probably want them next season.

JNO. H. SHERRILL. Petersburg, Va., March 18, 1902.

They give the most popular entertainment on the platform.

A. J. RANDLES. Monmouth, Ill., March 20, 1902.

One of the best numbers on our course this season.

W. STANGER. Ann Arbor, Mich., March 19, 1902.

One of the most popular entertainments we have ever had. Certainly nothing finer.

EDW. GRACE, Gen'l Sec'y. St. Paul, Minn., March 20, 1902.

Very favorably received.

Aurora, Ill. LEE MIGHILL, Y. M. C. A.

A very satisfactory entertainment.

HARRY PATTERSON. Decatur, Ill., March 20, 1902.

They are the best I have ever heard.

March 19, 1902. WM. CHAMBERS, Treas. of Com.

Gave universal satisfaction.  The press spoke of the company in the highest terms.

J. R. LOWRY. Punxsutawney, Pa., March 24, 1902.

They are the best ever here, and would like to arrange for a return date for them any time.

El Paso, Ill. ROBT. J. EVANS, Manager Grand.

Are unquestionably the best company of Bell Ringers we have ever had in our Y. M. C. A. course.

F. H. WELLS, For Ent. Com. Albany Y. M. C. A.

Gave excellent satisfaction.

R. S. WASSON, Sec'y. Ida Grove, Ia., March 20, 1902.

Pre-eminently satisfactory.

H. A. MEACHAM. Jersey City, March 19, 1902.

They were a great success here.

Attleboro, Mass. A. C. EAGLESON, Gen'l Sec'y.

Gave splendid satisfaction.

ELMER JOHNSTON, Sec'y Lecture Com. Rockwell City, Ia., March 21, 1902.





PRESS NOTICES

A hit from start to finish.  Mr. Nichols, as a monologuist, is first class, and his jokes were new and up to date.  His piano pyrotechnics were also very clever, and brought down the house.—
Boston Globe.


The bright particular star of the evening, however, was E. S. Nichols, who gave a musical monologue in Part 2.  His arrangement of 'A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,' first as an anthem, and then as a dirge, was decidedly clever, and altogether the audience could not get enough of him, recalling him again and again.—
Boston Record.


E. Stanley Nichols in his monologue and musical absurdities was a great favorite with the crowd, and was recalled time and again.—
Boston Journal.


Edward Nichols, in monologue, music and eccentric saltations, threw the house into convulsions.  His specialties were fresh, novel and piquant.—
Providence Journal.


Under the title of 'A Bluff at Being Funny,' Mr. Nichols gave as clever a monologue as one hears at places where the seats are $1.50 each.  His piano effort was deservedly encored.
E. S. Nichols, in his musical sketch, played 'A Hot Time in the Old Town' to waltz, church, and funeral time.  He also told funny stories that brought down the house.—

Boston Traveler.


Mr. E. S. Nichols made one of the hits of the night with his song, 'If It Ain't Winning a Home, Well, I Don't Know,' in which he electrified the audience.
E. S. Nichols was extremely amusing in his monologue and musical absurdities.
A highly amusing musical monologue was given by Mr. E. Stanley Nichols.  During this monologue the audience were kept in paroxysms of laughter by good jokes and puns fired with lightning rapidity.
One of the distinct hits of the evening was made by E. Stanley Nichols, the versatile and popular entertainer, in his selections, 'I'm Happy when I'm by My Baby's Side' and 'The Luckiest Coon.'  Mr. Nichols responded to repeated encores.—

Lexington Minute Men.


E. Stanley Nichols captured the audience in a specialty act, in which he showed his versatility in songs, stories, and piano variations of ragtime music.—
Salem Gazette.

Mr. Nichols' zither imitation on the piano strings is deserving of mention, it being well executed.



E. STANLEY NICHOLS Humorist and Entertainer

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BOSTON has furnished many of the leading entertainers of the lyceum platform, but none who have received more cordial endorsement from the press and public of New England than Mr. E. Stanley Nichols.  His work is unique and distinctly different from the cut and dried offerings of the old style humorist.  The one specialty of unique and original piano playing that he introduces with his other work would alone place him in the front rank of star entertainers, but to this he adds the accomplishment of singing bright, clean, popular songs, together with the ability to deliver a refined, up-to-date monologue, full of new stories, quaint conceits, and laughable sketches depicting types of character met in everyday life.

His work is sure to be appreciated, and the management predict for him a brilliant and lasting success.

HOLLISTER
BROTHERS