Everett Kemp: monologist and entertainer

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EVERETT KEMP
MONOLOGIST and ENTERTAINER
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Everett Kemp
Monologist   Entertainer

From The Masic Master
When I step in here, I am among my friends—so glad, so glad; Welcome to you all.



From Seven Oaks
Don't say anything ter the old boss about it.  If he kicks up any fuss I'll settle with him; and yer know when Jim Finton says he'll do a thing he means it, an nothin else.



Mr. Kemp, in a characteristic pose



From Seven Oaks
See here little feller.  You take this and go git yerself somethin' ter make yer happy.  Don't tell yer dad yer got it, its yourn.



From The Music Master
I know I am a selfish old man but she's mine, she's mine and I am going to have her.



From That Printer of Udells
I can see no difference and before God I believe there is no difference between the idle church member and the so-called man of the world.



From The Music Master
The world always does respect a successful rascal.  Of all the people he is the most respected.



From The Masic Master
My little darling, my little baby; at last, at last; how long, O, how long!



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Photos by Matzene Chicago




Everett Kemp Interpreter
Everett Kemp, interpreter, has received ovations thruout this country which, in enthusiasm and importance, are second to none thus far chronicled in the lyceum world.  In fact some of them are decidedly unique.

At Galley, N. M., for example, Mr. Kemp gave his rendition of J. G. Holland's beautiful story Sevenoaks.  A few days later he received a letter of appreciation signed by clerks, engineers, a dentist, a well driller, a banker, a hostler, a coal dealer, a superintendent of schools and others.  This letter, among other words of eulogy said: As a reader we have never heard him surpassed.  The widely different occupations and professions represented among the signers illustrates Mr. Kemp's ability to reach everyone in his audiences.

All who were at the International Lyceum Association Convention at Winona, Ind., in September, 1912, will recall his splendid presentation of the Music Master.  One entire evening of the Association's program was given up to this rendition and few features brought forth more hearty and sincere applause.  Few audiences are more critical.

Lyceumite and Talent magazine printed an entire page in February, 1912, on Mr. Kemp as the Man with the Million Dollar Laugh and referring to him as a permanent headliner.

Speaking of Mr. Kemp's laugh, it may be said that he is a natural born comedian and brings to his audiences that rare treat—pure fun.  His humor is delicious.  Everybody likes his funny people, but best of all they like him.  To have the blues while Kemp is around is out of the question.  His is the smile that pushes back the clouds and radiates sunshine and good fellowship.  Many have said, it's worth the price just to hear Kemp laugh.  But he is not always laughing and making others laugh.  His fine sympathetic nature, wide versatility and keen perception enables him to interpret the more serious side of life in a way to delight the popular as well as literary audience.

To meet Mr. Kemp is to be impressed that he has a consuming purpose.  His art is to interpret life and he does this with all the varying shades and subtle emotions peculiar to this great humanity of ours.



Mr. Kemp's Work Reviewed By The Press

Portland (Ore.) Oregonian
—Mr. Kemp made a decided hit in his readings.


Davenport (Ia.) Leader
—He completely captured his audience.


Monmouth (Ill.) Daily Review
—He kept the audience in a constant laugh from beginning to end.


Baltimore (Md.) Herald
—A delightful entertainment.


Springfield (O.) Daily Sun
—The attraction proved to be one of the most thoroughly enjoyed that has marked any lecture course ever arranged in this city.  Mr. Kemp made his hearers feel the spirit of the characters he was representing.  When he talked, those who heard him saw not the man in dress suit; they saw farther and heard the deep voice of Jim Fenton or the piping tones of Miss Butterworth.  It was not the one setting of the stage which formed the background; real scenery could hardly have produced a more vivid atmosphere.  The acting of Mr. Kemp was a great success.


Sedalia (Mo.) Daily Capital
—He brought out the details of his characters so perfectly and so carried his audience with him into the spirit of the story that they forgot the absence of scenery, costume and actors and lived with each character as it appeared.


Rochester (Minn.) Daily Bulletin
—Mr. Kemp held the audience spellbound to the close.  He is an impersonator with fine perceptions and is a keen reader and interpreter of character.


Manhattan (Kan.) Nationalist
—Everett Kemp, the noted humorist, keenly delighted one of the largest audiences present at the chautauqua thus far.


Salina (Kan.) Evening Journal
—Pleased the audience immensely.


LaFayette (Ind.) Journal
—His characterizations were all so true to life that he moved his audience from pathos to laughter at will.  It was a fine literary treat.


Roanoke (Va.) Times
—He is an artist.


Streator (Ill.) Free Press
—He delighted everyone.


Burlington (Ia.) Hawkeye
—Mr. Kemp kept everyone laughing.


Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
—Was pronounced by all who heard him to be one of the best numbers of the season.


St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch
—The work of Mr. Kemp was artistic.


Pierre (S. D.) Daily Dakotan
—He not only lead his audience through all important epochs in Sevenoaks, but enabled them in the most wonderful manner to see and almost touch every person or character living in that beautiful story.  So vivid and true are his impersonations that the audience is almost persuaded to believe that, magic like, people come and go from the stage at the simple exercises of his will.


Dayton (O.) Daily Journal
—His pathos and humor as well as the strictly narrative parts of the story called forth frequent evidence of appreciation from a large audience.  The demand for seats could not be met.


Columbia (S. C.) State
—From beginning to end, Mr. Kemp was en rapport with his audience.  He portrayed his characters so perfectly that one could scarcely believe that there was not on the platform the exact persons he impersonated.


Baraboo (Wis.) Republic
—He is irresistible and his laugh is so natural and contagious that he completely captivates his audience.




MR. KEMP'S REPERTOIRE

Sevenoaks   Holland
A beautiful story of rural life.  The trials and sufferings of Benedict through the persecutions of Robert Belcher, the boss of Sevenoaks, and the loyalty and devotion of Benedict's little son Harry, brings a tear of sympathy, while Jim Fenton's wit and homely philosophy is positively side-splitting.  A story brim full of human interest and vibrant with life and action.


ACT I. The poorhouse.  Jim Fenton makes a discovery.
ACT II. Benedict's escape.  Mike Conlin proves to be a friend indeed.
ACT III. Jim Fenton meets Miss Butterworth and makes a proposal.
ACT IV. The court scene.  The trial of Benedict vs. Belcher. Jim makes a happy-David.
ACT V. The wedding.  Jim Fenton makes the hull trip.



The Music Master   Kleim
The play made famous by David Warfield, is the story of a broken heart full of self sacrifice; a proud spirit always hopeful; poverty, pitiful in the effort of concealment.  The character, Von Barwig, whose life is full of hope, humiliation, misery and despair, and his final triumph over all the vicissitudes of a life lived for others, is one that appeals to the best there is in us and sends us away with a new resolve to live a better and a more useful life.


ACT I. The Desertion.  A woman's love for a man may go here, there, anywhere; but the mother instinct, how can that change?
ACT II. The coming of the beautiful Miss Stanton.  The mother's happiness is in the home, always the home.  One imprudent step and the mother's happiness goes, and the father's too.
ACT III. The Music Lesson.  I dream, I dream, for sixteen years I have not rested.  Please do not wake me.
ACT IV. The Supreme Sacrifice.  I know I'm selfish, I know I'm selfish, but I am tired of starving for the love of my own.
ACT V. Going Home.  When I think of the many, many kind hearts in this world, I'm just happy, that's all.



That Printer of Udell's   Wright
This is a story dealing with problems of the church and is an urgent appeal to Christians for more activity in the cause of Christ.  In the hands of Mr. Kemp this is a powerful sermon.  Young Men's Christian Associations in need of something good for their men's Sunday meetings will do well to make a note of this.

That Printer of Udell's is very appropriate for a Sunday service.



If I Were King   McCarthy
This is a delightful romantic drama dealing with the reign of Louis XI, King of France.  Francois Villon, a vagabond poet who has mocked the King, is arrested and by the King's orders made Grand Constable.  He is allowed one week of splendor, at the end of which time he is to be hanged.  Seeking revenge on the beautiful Lady Katherine, who has spurned his advances, the King offers Villon his life if he can win the proud Kate within the week.  Disguised as a nobleman Villon desperately presses his suit and wins the Lady Katherine, but redeemed through love, he insists on revealing to her his true identity regardless of consequences.  She spurns him, which leaves him face to face with death.  The events leading up to this climax as Villon stands at the foot of the gallows are intensely dramatic and fairly grip the audience.


ACT I. The Fir Cone Tavern.  The coming of Katherine.
ACT II. The Rose Garden at the King's Palace.  A man has come to court.
ACT III. The Rose Garden a week later.  My soul was in bud a week ago; today it is in blossom.
ACT IV. At the foot of the gallows.  I have tried a man's heart and found it pure gold; a woman's soul and found it all angel.



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