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The Noted English Lecturer-Entertainer ADA WARD

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GETTING TOGETHER

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ADA WARD, THE NOTED ENGLISH LECTURER — ENTERTAINER

ADA WARD, noted English woman lecturer-entertainer, first became known to American audiences during the war.  She had a wonderful story of her experiences as a cartoonist in entertaining the British Tommy on the Western front during the dark days of the early fighting.  She told her story so dramatically that she completely fired and captivated her hearers.  In city after city the lectures of Ada Ward were little less than a sensation.

Before the war Miss Ward had already earned a reputation in her native England as one of that country's foremost speakers on topics of the day and it was the wide recognition of her ability as an artist entertainer that led to her being chosen to go to France to help inspirit the soldiers.

Miss Ward is a lecturer and entertainer of unique ability.  She possesses every art of the platform.  She is fiery, sincere, eloquent, humorous, witty.  She evokes tears and the next moment washes them away with the cleanest of laughter.  She is a wee mite of femininity but hers is the power of the spirit.

Miss Ward has had a brilliant educational career.  She was a student at the universities of London and Paris and holds the degree of L.L.A. from St. Andrew's University, Scotland.  This degree is given only to women and is conferred by no British university except St. Andrew's.

She also studied in Rome and Berlin, is an accomplished linguist and is well-known for her journalistic and literary activities.

Miss Ward uses a blackboard in her lectures, and her cartoons and sketches are always provocative of mirth and laughter.



THE WARD LECTURES

GETTING TOGETHER
A plea for a better understanding between the English speaking peoples of the world, charmingly and skillfully handled with a rare humor that wins sincere appreciation.  Interwoven with this plea are memories of the lecturer's work in France that make her appeal the more forcible and convincing.  A unique presentation of a great and important subject.  No one is better qualified to interpret Britain and America to each other than this delightful little woman who is loved by both.

YOU AMERICANS
A daring experiment, yet wholly successful in the skillful hands of Ada Ward whose keen knowledge of the American people has been gained from long and loving study among them.  A lecture full of inspiration and enjoyment.

WITH MY BLACKBOARD IN FRANCE
To those weary of the war-lecture as such, this comes as a refreshing revelation.  One critic recently averred It will be fascinating to the grandchildren of the present soldiers, provided Ada Ward can tell it.  With great skill and good taste, without dwelling on grim horrors and harrowing details, she describes unusual and unexpected incidents, blending high humor with intense pathos.

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
(Especially suitable for Sundays.)  Ada Ward returned to Europe after the signing of the Armistice, and was accorded unusual privileges during her visit to the battle-fronts.  From her impressions she has compiled a sermon-lecture of pathetic beauty and tenderness, illumined by delicate flashes of humor.  She speaks of love human and divine that no war can destroy, that cheers the tired world like clear shining after rain, that sends one away more determined and encouraged to continue the fight against the powers of darkness and to realize that in spite of all, love is the greatest thing in the world.






ADA WARD, LECTURER—ENTERTAINER

American Audiences
An Article by Ada Ward in The Lyceum News
One day, during my first Chautauqua season in this country I was on my way to the tent where I was to speak in the afternoon.  I called enroute at a drug store to make a small purchase and was confronted by a closed door on which was fastened the following notice:

Gone to hear Ada Ward at Chautauqua.  If you have any sense you will do the same.

I was very much amused, very highly complimented, but most of all very deeply impressed.  For here was at least one member of my audience willing to forego the immediate business of money making for the sake of gaining knowledge, anxious, too, that others should share his opportunity and appealing not to their emotions, not to their desires, but to their common sense.

It was a direct challenge, too, to myself, a reminder of the great opportunities and still greater responsibilities that rest on the shoulders of those privileged to lecture to American audiences.  For these are so eager, so hopeful, so helpful.  They all are so full of youthful vigor, earnest appreciation.  Coming from England where my audiences are so reserved, so self-controlled, the contrast is a great one.  I have never let myself go, as the saying is, in any part of the world so much as I have done in this great new country where its people let you know so definitely what they think of you and your work.

As a result, I do not think I have ever given better public service.



NEWSPAPER APPRECIATIONS

Augusta, Ga., Herald:
Miss Ada Ward, the little English-woman of wide renown, addressed the audience on the Getting Together of England and America.  Her ability to change quickly from the commonplace to the ethereal, her artistic blending of the humorous with the serious, enabled her to elevate her listeners to her height, descend with them and rise with them again.
Humorously, she told of the feeling of dislike and misunderstanding once mutually held by America and England toward each other.  She told how the attitude had changed and pleaded for closer ties between the two countries.  In all but a few minor unessentials, she declared, the American and Englishman were the same creature.



Paducah, Ky., News-Democrat:
Miss Ward captivated the great crowd with her unusual brilliance and those who had the good fortune to be present to hear her were either laughing or crying throughout the entire length of her lecture.


Toronto, Ont., Globe:
Miss Ward can talk and chalk at one and the same time and her talk is as human and humorous as her drawing.


Winnipeg, Man., Telegram:
Remarkable for the dramatic quality and literary distinction of her lecture, Miss Ada Ward, in the Westminster church, thrilled an audience that filled the building.


Columbia, S. C., State:
Ada Ward was introduced as a lecturer.  She might well have been presented as an entertainer, for her lecture was interspersed with so much rich humor and wit and human interest stories that it really was like an entertainment.  But there was a big message in the lecture which the little lady from London, England, gave, for it was really a lecture—a plea to strengthen the Anglo-American entente.


Port Huron, Mich., Times-Herald:
Port Huron liked Ada Ward.  Before she had been on the platform five minutes she had captivated her audience.  In coming here.  Miss Ward exploded two theories which Americans are apt to entertain concerning English women.  She has a keen, sparkling sense of humor and enjoys a joke even on herself, to its fullest possibilities.
A strong appeal for Getting Together, for the closer union of the two great English speaking nations, England and America, was made by the speaker who evidently felt that many misunderstandings have been wiped away by the world war and the fighting side by side of Yanks and Tommies.  Miss Ward's tribute to the Stars and Stripes was genuine and in coming to this country with her story it is certain that she feels that she has a mission to fulfill.




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