Marshall Choate Crouch: the simple life

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Marshall Choate Crouch The Simple Life
MANAGEMENT MIDLAND LYCEUM BUREAU.-DES MOINES. IOWA



SEASON 1908-1909

Marshall Choate Crouch
MR. CROUCH has fulfilled our predictions.  He is brainy, he is interesting, he pleases people.  He resorts to no subterfuges.  He plays no tricks.  He has wholesome humor and he tells a story delightfully.  He delights the everyday folks and sets high ideals for them, and yet the story of The Simple Life is absorbingly interesting for the scholar and the student.  His lecture carries a message along philosophical lines different from the ordinary popular lecture, and we believe Mr. Crouch will be warmly welcomed, because he does it so charmingly and so well that everyone is simply delighted.  He makes you think and yet does not tire you and is not dry.

MIDLAND LYCEUM BUREAU.


The Simple Life
Two Williams of Orange
The Little End of the Telescope

I used Marshall Choate Crouch at my Chautauqua at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, for his lecture on The Simple Life.  I was more than delighted with the original conception of the lecture and the delightful treatment which he gave the theme.  He left his auditors infinitely better than he found them and opened the way to an outlook in a new direction.  It is a lecture for the times and is needed.  He ought to be heard everywhere. — W. L. Davidson, Washington, D. C.


Slacken the madding pace at which Americans are moving and go back to the simple life, was the keynote of an interesting lecture before the Unity Club yesterday afternoon at the Grand opera house, by Marshall Choate Crouch, one of the leading exponents of The Simple Life in this country.  The large audience was held at attention by his plea for a journey back to the old lost days when people were unaffected by worldly things.—
Commercial Tribune, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Like new coin from the mint. — Columbus Gazette





PRESS AND PERSONAL

The lecture is a timely one and its presentation, in Mr. Crouch's masterly manner, is bound to leave its imprint upon the minds and hearts and lives of the present generation and through them to influence the coming life.—
Daily Advertiser, Clinton, Iowa.


One of the surprises of the session occurred when Mr. M. C. Crouch delivered his lecture on The Simple Life.  It was brim full of humor, dramatic periods and pathetic touches, while at the same time it revealed a deep insight into human nature and brought forth frequent bursts of enthusiastic applause.  His lecture is in no sense based on the book bearing the same title, and is the product of his own mind.  At its close Mr. Crouch was tendered on informal reception which was a spontaneous tribute from his hearers and touched him deeply. Mr. Crouch should be heard by everyone.—
The Topeka Daily Capital, Topeka, Kansas.


Mr. Crouch is an excellent speaker, earnest, convincing and original.—
Daily Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah.


Eagles hall was filled to hear Marshall Choate Crouch.  Mr. Crouch is an earnest advocate of The Simple Life. In telling of it he amuses, instructs and elevates.  He has a happy knack of getting next to every heart, and suggests a tear after bringing a smile.  He will be welcomed back to Echo any day.—
The Echo Register, Echo, Oregon.



I had the pleasure of hearing Marshall Choate Crouch's lecture, The Simple Life.  I was greatly pleased with the man and his message.  It showed a wholesome and elevated conception of life and much hard work by a young, hard-working man.  He is much in advance of his years.  Such ability and untiring work ought to have the sanction of all intelligent people and I trust will have.  Young people cannot meet such a young man and fail to get great profit from the man and his message.  I commend him. L.B.Wickersham.




The lecture. The Simple Life, by Marshall C Crouch, at Park Theatre, last Thursday evening, was simply great to use a common expression.  The audience was very appreciative, for everybody present seemed to be more than delighted with the original conception of the lecturerand the delightful treatment he gave the theme.—
Times, Waitsburg, Wash.


M. C. Crouch is a lecturer of exceptional ability.  So well did he handle his subject that all were convinced that The Simple Life is the life that counts.  He was free and easy on the stage, without the least affection, and his delivery was such that every word could be heard at any point in the large tent.  The three main points for which the lecturer plead were: Simplicity in thought, speech, and in doing.  The Simple Life did not mean living on easy street, but the strenuous, active life that does things that count, and not the complex, hurry-scurry, break-neck speed that wears and tears but accomplishes no good.—
Muscatine Journal.


The address was clear cut, timely and appropriate.  It was eloquent and impressive.  The lecture was evidently original in thought and the theme was most delightfully handled.—
Anaconda Times, Anaconda, Mont.


The audience was well pleased with the address which was thoughtful and helpful throughout, and contained many witticisms concerning the foibles of society in its mad rush.—
Petaluma Argus, Petaluma, Calif.



Mr Crouch sets one to thinking and gives him room for thought.  And that is something few of the lecturers on stereotyped themes do nowadays.  Withal he is very much in earnest and a clear, forcible talker, who presents his views on a serious subject with enough of wit and anecdote to make his lecture very entertaining.—
Cody Enterprise, Cody, Wyo


Marshall Choate Crouch delivered an interesting lecture on The Simple Life.  The lecture was one of the best heard in this city for some time and the audience was much impressed.—
Northern Idaho News, Sand Point, Idaho.


Marshall Choate Crouch of Iowa delivered an excellent lecture here Thursday evening on The Simple Life.  Those who were permitted to hear this ever timely and important theme so delightfully handled were indeed fortunate; for they were not only delightfully entertained, but elevated and benefited thereby.—
Madison County Monitor, Twin Bridges, Montana.

To me your lecture brought a fund of good suggestions that will far outlast the pleasing impressions made by your thrilling delivery.  It is both entertaining and instructive, well enriched with wit, but not less replete with good common sense, and presented with life and power.— J.J. Mitchell, De Witt, Iowa.




At times he reminded us of Ralph Parlette, with his swift flashes of humor and quick return to wholesome truth; at times he rivaled Bob Taylor with his picturesque description and elegant language, and at times there was the earnestness of Judge Lindsey with his plea for The Simple Life for men and boys.  Yet through it all the personality of Crouch himself stood out with vivid clearness, and the impressions received were not that he is an imitator, but that he is the creator of his own images, the author of his own words, and the dreamer of his own dreams.  At the close of his lecture the crowd enmasse surrounded Crouch and he held an informal reception at the foot of the platform which was a real expression of pleasure, and a compliment to his worth.  Crouch's triumph was most complete.—
The Day Book, Lincoln Park, Kansas.




The lecture. The Simple Life, delivered by Mr. Crouch at the opera house last week, was well received and greatly enjoyed by all who heard it.  He handled his subject from start to finish with great ability.  His thoughts were expressed in plain and concise language, easily understood, and his meaning easily compre hended.—
Record Arlington, Oregon'


Marshall Choate Crouch touched chords that were met by a vibrating response from the audience Mr Crouch has a good stage presence and a magnetic delivery.—
Rosalia Citizen, Rosalia, Wash.


Marshall Choate Crouch delivered an address last night at the Christian church on The Simple Life, that is rarely excelled anywhere in beauty of expression or in sturdy, common sense.  The speaker' keen analysis of the hurly-burly life of the latter-day Americans was in a splendid vein of close examination, interspersed with a humorous delineation of our customs and mannerisms as we race at a break-neck speed after the dollar or in an ostentatious chase after show.—
Tribune, Pendleton, Oregon.


Mr. Crouch is a platform orator of great power and ability, and his address was intensely interesting and instructive.  The Simple Life was handled in a delightful manner—
Eagle, Milton, Ore.



The Register and Leader Co., Des Moines