Edwin R. Weeks Company

              Edwin R. Weeks
Company



'An Evening of MUSIC AND MIRTH



OPERETTAS IMPERSONATIONS MEDLEYS VOCAL SOLOS COMEDIES
MONOLOGUES PARODIES
VIOLIN SOLOS SKETCHES




MISS LULU SINCLAIR, VIOLINISTE






MR. WEEKS, ENTERTAINER






MRS. WEEKS IN SONGS AND SKETCHES





Direction Empire Lyceum Bureau, Inc., D. H. Cook, Mgr., Syracuse, N.Y.








MR. and MRS. EDWIN R. WEEKS in their Musical Playlet 
SCHOOL DAYS
—A Reminiscence of Childhood Days





THE EDWIN R. WEEKS COMPANY


Mendicant


Musicians


Migrating from


Maine to


Mexico with a


Menu of


Mirth


Mainly


Merry and


Music


Mostly


Melodious


Mingled with a


Moral


Melange of


Mummery and


Mimicry for


Morose and


Melancholic


Mortals





MR. EDWIN R. WEEKS

Impersonator, Humorist.  Musician, Entertainer.




MRS. EDWIN R. WEEKS In Songs, Sketches, Accompaniments.



 MISS LULU SINCLAIR
  Violiniste and Accompanist.




A TWO WEEKS Performance in one Evening.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has twice toured Panama and Central America, and the Canal Diggers and the natives haven't stopped laughing yet.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has played in Europe and especially England where the people haven't yet even started to laugh.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has played on the big courses in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington from three to eight times.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has played in scores of towns with populations of less than a hundred, including the cemetery, as many times as once.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has played before hundreds of audiences of countless thousands, and before thousands of audiences where you could count less.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has played in cities where people were 
turned away,
 in others where they couldn't 
get the people in the hall
—nor even near it.




THE WEEKS COMPANY has been recalled so often to so many places that almost proverbial has become the expression 
WEEKS BACK AGAIN






Celebrated


Company


Canvassing the


Country from


Cape Cod to


California in


Carefully


Concocted


Concerts


Consisting of


Costumed


Comedies and


Caricatures of


Conspicuous


Characters


Combining to


Cause


Cheerfulness in


Careworn


Communities





MR. and MRS. EDWIN R. WEEKS in the Comedy Playlet 
SQUIRE BLAKSLEE'S CLARIONET
—A Play with a Purpose






THE COMPANY



EDWIN R. WEEKS




Mr. Weeks stands pre-eminent in the lyceum world as an original and versatile entertainer.  His offerings are almost entirely of his own composition, and run the entire gamut of things musical and humorous.  There is withal a gentle refinement about his humor and here and there, blended with it, is a touch of pathos and the driving home of a homely truth which proves that real mirth has its true mission.




He has a voice of unusual range—upward of three octaves—which enables him to give Operettas, that introduce all the various characters from the lofty soprano to the deep basso profundo.  He gives, as will be noted on the back of this folder, impersonations of prominent men, like Bryan, Taft, Roosevelt and Cannon, changing from one to the other before the eyes of the audience.




MRS. EDWIN R. WEEKS



Mrs. Weeks has won fame throughout the country by the beauty of her thoroughly musical soprano voice, and the simple charm of her unaffected manner, as well as the added ability of presiding at the piano in artistic and sympathetic accompaniments.



She has lent further distinction to the various programs by her appearances in playlets in which she portrays, with histrionic ability, various characters, all the way from the lady to the manor born down to the waif of the street and the school girl of long ago.




MISS LULU SINCLAIR




Miss Sinclair is a former member of the faculty of the American Conservatory of Chicago, and a pupil of the famous teacher, Adolph Weidig, who pronounces her his most gifted violiniste.




She is most engaging in appearance and thoroughly gracious in manner and has a wonderful technical equipment, as well as a large and beautiful tone.  She plays the classics of the masters, after the manner of the virtuoso adding to these the simple old airs that are dear to the hearts of all.





Mr. and Mrs. Weeks in Private Life At Home with the 
Three Weeks






THE PROGRAM



CHARACTER




The program consumes an hour and a half, with something occupying every moment, there being no pauses or intermissions.  The performance may be given with or without curtain either in Opera Houses, Pavillions, Halls, Clubs, or Churches, and the make-up of the program will depend on the general character of the audience as well as the place in which it is given.




SKETCHES




Each program will contain two or three sketches.  Among these may be mentioned 
Squire Blakslee's Clarionet,
 a mirth-provoking playlet that keeps the audience in a roar but underlying it all is a moral and a purpose for these days of divorces and separations.  
Schools Days
 is a musical playlet for children, from 7 to 70 years of age, that will amuse the former and, with a flood of memories, transplant the latter back into the old school yard of long ago.  
Pretending
 is a travesty on modern society ways both in the realm of married and unmarried life, culminating in an improvised automobile ride that is convulsing and unique.  
Hello, Peaches,
 introducing people of the underworld; 
Polly Perkins in Paris,
 introducing famous musicians; 
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,
 introducing famous politicians, and 
The Impromptu Impersonator
 are also popular offerings.  
The Pickaninny
 and 
The Grasshopper,
 in which Mr. Weeks demonstrates himself to be a whole opera company, including soloists, comedian, tragedian, ballet and chorus, as well as his famous medley 
Thirty Songs
 are among the special features of the program.




MUSICAL NUMBERS




As an element of the artistic and to give balance and variety to the programs, songs like the 
Bird Songs
 of Liza Lehmann's and 
Dialect Songs
 by Neidlinger are given by Mrs. Weeks, while Miss Sinclair's offerings include the master pieces of Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps and Hubay, and other great composers for the violin.




Especial attention is called to Miss Sinclair's triple feat of singing a lullaby and at the same time playing her own piano accompaniment and violin obligato.






EDWIN R. WEEKS 
In Impersonations of
Notable Men of
 the Day




AS SHERMAN






AS BRYAN






AS TEDDY






AS TAFT






AS FAIRBANKS






AS MARK TWAIN






AS HUGHES






EDWIN R. WEEKS






AS CARUSO






AS PADEREWSKI






AS SQUIRE BLAKSLEE






AS HARRIGAN






AS HENRY IRVING






AS SALVINNI






AS DEACON MAYBE






WEEKS BACK AGAIN






AS MAX ROGERS






AS ONE LUNG





THE MAN OF MANY FACES