The Beulah Buck Quartette Company

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The Beulah Buck QUARTETTE COMPANY



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BEULAH BUCK

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MARJORY PADDOCK
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The Original Sketch Now and Then

The Beulah Buck Quartet
EACH SEASON this company of gifted artists has presented an original musical sketch, which feature has been one of the most talked of in Lyceum circles.  We picture above the company in the sketch, Now and Then, featured this past season.  The Old Melodeon is another musical sketch that proved a big success with this company for several seasons and will be used when several programs are given.  It is to be doubted if a more popular and successful entertainment feature than these musical sketches has been presented in recent years by any Lyceum company.  We have hundreds of letters and newspaper reports praising in highest terms this feature of the company's program.





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REBA CONGER

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HARRIET JONES
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The Beulah Buck Quartet Co.
WE ARE PLEASED to announce again the management of the best women's quartet in the Lyceum.  During the past three seasons the Beulah Buck Co. has won this high place, and we are confident they will maintain it so long as they remain in Lyceum work.  We have room to say but little about the individuals composing the company.


Personnel
Mrs. Beulah Buck, Soprano and Reader, has a clear and brilliant soprano voice, which, coupled with her dramatic talent, enables her to sing with pleasing expression either in the operatic arias or the popular songs and ballads.  In her readings she does not strive alone for heavy elocutionary effects, but also gives such bits of impersonation as make a pleasing variety to an evening's program.  Her selections are always new, and her material fresh and unhackneyed.  For seven years at the head of this company.

Miss Harriet B. Jones, Contralto, is a singer of rare gifts.  Her voice is of the purest quality, with a range of two and one-half octaves, and she sings with equal ease throughout its entire compass.  Her beautiful voice, her gracious manner, and pleasing stage presence make her a most acceptable concert singer.  She is also possessed with much dramatic ability, and has great personal charm.  Her fifth season with this company.

Miss Marjorie Paddock, Soprano and Pianist, has a voice full of sweetness, and that sympathetic quality that never fails to delight.  A pleasing stage presence adds a charm to her work.  She has splendid musical ability and is a first-class pianist.  She is always greeted with delight.  Her fifth season with this company.

Miss Reba Conger, Contralto, has a wonderful ability.  Of charming personality, blessed with good looks and a gracious manner, she possesses a voice of great range and power, of exceptional quality and sweetness.  In quartet work her voice blends beautifully with the others, and in solos she is an unusual success.  Her second season with this company.



A Few Comments

Hicksville, Ohio.—(Return engagement.)  The famous Beulah Buck Quartet opened the Citizens' Lecture Course at the Huber opera house Monday night and drew one of the largest audiences in the history of the lecture course organization.  The ladies were at their best and gave an entertainment which charmed and pleased the critical audience.  The program was entirely new, only one selection being used which was given last season, and every number was heartily encored.  In some of the selections the quartet responded three times and then the audience was not satisfied but kept on applauding.  This quartet is the best on the road and our committee was fortunate in securing them for the opening of the course.—
News.


Marion, Ohio.—The perfect harmony was the great feature of the quartet work.  At times it seemed that there was only one voice.  The effect was pleasing in the extreme.  Miss Paddock, the soprano, has a voice of a clear bell-like tone with volume back of it.  Mrs. Buck took the second soprano part with a voice of pleasing quality.  Miss Jones sang the first alto with that sympathetic quality of voice that added greatly to the work, while the vibratory resonance of the contralto added that depth of completeness that is so often lacking in a ladies' quartet.  The four voices together made a most pleasing tonal effect.  As a closing number the quartet sang in costume a number entitled The Old Melodeon.  The costumes of the singers were of the quaint style of many years ago.  The four were busy at their sewing and at the same time in song and speech were living over their younger days.  The story was about the good times they used to have with the old instrument when they were all at home.  They told how each person played the melodeon and described the effect in song.  At times the audience was in laughter and at times the spirit of the scene seemed so strong that there was a strong inclination to tears.  For the greater part of the numbers encores were demanded.—
Daily Mirror.


Lewiston, Maine.—It is hard to decide the selections which gave the most enjoyment, but Joy Of The Morning by Miss Paddock, Love's Enchantment by Miss Jones, Slumber Sea by Miss Conger, and the reading by Mrs. Buck of The Man In the Shadow, were most generously applauded.
The gowns worn were very beautiful and in the last offering, which was a sketch entitled Now and Then, the ladies wore gowns such as our grand-mothers and aunts wore fifty years ago.  The first of this sketch showed a group of young ladies singing the popular songs of today.  Just then their Auntie came in and after telling the girls that the songs of fifty years ago were much more beautiful than those of today, asked them to sing for her.
The Aunt, Mrs. Buck, is persuaded to sing When You and I Were Young Maggie which she did in a very pleasing way.  Miss Conger and Miss Jones danced the Minuet for their Auntie and the sketch closed with Auld Lang Syne by the quartet.—

Daily Sun.


Titusville, Pa.—The Titusville Lyceum society picked a winner for the first number of its course, to be given during the coming winter.  The society had the Beulah Buck Concert company of Chicago and the audience that filled the auditorium of the high school last night was given a two-hour entertainment that was of such a high order that it is a pity that the program was not given in a larger hall and the hall crowded to the doors.
The Beulah Buck company has never been heard in Titusville before, but it is one that will be welcomed here next year.  These four ladies sing some remarkably fine songs, every number last night having been encored.  Mrs. Buck gave two splendid readings and the whole company appeared in a sketch in which old songs were sung and in which the ladies wore gowns of the ante bellum days.  The whole entertainment was beautiful and the Lyceum company, as well as Mrs. Buck and her assistants, received many congratulations after the evening was over.—

Herald.



EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT
The COIT LYCEUM BUREAU, CLEVELAND
ARTHUR C. COIT, President   LOUIS J. ALBER, General Manger






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The Beulah Buck QUARTETTE COMPANY