Rev. Father P.J. MacCorry, dramatic orator

              Rev. Father P. J. MacCorry
DRAMATIC ORATOR
Management
Glazier Circuit Co-operative Lyceum Bureau
508 South Dearborn Street, Chicago
Rev. Fr. MacCorry		Announcement
The REV. FR. MacCORRY, the eminent missionary and lecturer  of New York, needs no words of introduction to the American   public.    His work has been before our Catholic and non-Catholic
 population for many years and speaks trumpet-tongued for itself. His reputation is easily national, his surpassing eloquence having crowded to overflowing the largest church edifices and auditoriums across the country. The "Story Beautiful" is unquestionably the highest reach of both his artistic and oratorical ability, and has been produced at times on consecutive nights throughout an entire week in the same auditoriums to ever-increas¬ing audiences—a fact, we think, somewhat unique on the lecture platform today—and which speaks more eloquently than any words of ours of the intrinsic merits of both the man and his work.
Father MacCorry is a most gifted orator. His regular lectures, without illustrations, are great popular orations filled with vital truths. His splendid voice and dramatic delivery adds to their interest and power. His native wit sparkles throughout his lectures with delightful effect. His scholastic training, his wide travel and observation, and several years' experience before mixed audiences of all creeds and conditions, qualify him in an unusual degree for the Lyceum Platform, where he has been pre-eminently successful. Father MacCorry is one of the GREAT POPULAR LYCEUM ORATORS of the generation.
Lecture Subjects
The Kingship of Man
Making for individuality and  initiative — for   light,   for   liberty   and   in¬dependence.
The National Music of Ireland
A lecture  on  the  loves,  the  hopes and the destiny of the Island of Saints and Scholars.
Intemperance, Our National Calamity
An  appeal  and  a  warning.
A Ramble in the Realms of Childhood 
With or Without Illumination)
A plea for the better care, training and  education of the children of the Republic.
The Story Beautiful
(Illuminated)
A little journey in the earthly foot prints of the meek and lowly Nazarene. Illuminated by one hundred fac-simile reproductions of the world greatest modern religious paintings.
“The Story Beautiful” 		Rev. Fr. MacCorry
An Art-Musical-Lecture Recital on the Life and Labors of the
meek and lowly Nazarene
A BIG STORY told in a big, broad way, illuminated by reproduction in fac-simile colors of the world's greatest modern paintings. The paintings illuminating this lecture—more than one hundred in num¬ber—are nearly all copyrighted and for the most part unknown in this country, and were colored expressly for "The Story Beautiful" by Mr. Joseph Hawkes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The pictures are copied in replica directly from the original canvas as they hang to-day in the great art galleries of America and Europe. They are unquestionably among the finest and most artistic specimens of coloring ever attempted on this side of the water. Accompanied by an elaborate classical setting of vocal and instrumental music. The ensemble—an earnest effort to assemble in a single evening the best things that art, music and literature have produced on the Life and Labors of our Saviour.
A Sample Musical Setting
HALLELUJAH CHORUS—(Messiah)   ...........................  IJandcl
FEAR NOT, O ISRAEL—(Jeremiah VI)..............Max Spicker op. 50
Quartet
PRAISE YE—(Attila)   ........................................  G. Verdi
Vocal  Trio
NOEL—O HOLY NIGHT—Solo-Quartet..................Adolphe Adam
(Sung at Scene of the Nativity)
LES RAMEAUX—Solo-Quartet .................................. Fame
(Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem)
MARCHE  FUNEBRE—Instrumental   ............................Chopin
(The  Carrying to the Tomb)
REGINA  COELI—Chorus   ......................................Steams
(Scene of the Resurrection)
RECESSIONAL—(Praise Ye the Father) Chorus..................Gounod
(March Pontificate)
The musical setting of The Story Beautiful is supplied by local talent. The program may be simplified or omitted entirely as occasion demands. Naturally, however, its rendition lends largely to the general effect.
Press Comments	and	Personal Estimate
NEW YORK SUN Altho the house is in utter darkness the speaker stands in a halo of soft light, his every gesture and facial expression being visible to the audience. It is quite unlike anything we have seen before upon the subject and brings the life and times of the Messiah up thro the dim azure of the ages until one thinks it must all have happened a few yesterdays ago.
SAN FRANCISCO (Cal.) CALL The lecturer touched the fountain-heads of Art, Music and Literature with his magic wand, and they yielded up the grandest and most precious and the best. His word-painting vied in brilliancy and in some instances won the mastery over the exquisite coloring of the paintings projected on the massive screen.
ANACONDA (Mont.) STANDARD His scathing denunciation of the injustice of the world at the scene of the woman taken in sin—the injustice which stones an erring woman but con¬dones a more sinful man—was like a livid stream of lava, consuming and irresistible in its fiery force.
SCRANTON (Pa.) REPUBLICAN The receipts of "The Story Beautiful" last night for the benefit of the Good Sisters were two thousand three hundred dollars.    What greater words of commendation could be said for the intrinsic merits of the recital or Scran-ton's appreciation of Fr. MacCorry's surpassing work?
CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD The speaker's complete mastery of that tremendous audience was marvelous. From the sobs of men and women that shook the entire auditorium at the description of Hoffman's "Virgin in the Tomb" to the thrill and ecstasy of the Resurrection, was but five minutes at most but the transformation was absolute, and smiles of triumph played across the audience thro tear-wet faces.
THE STORY BEAUTIFUL Last summer Father MacCorry delivered "The Story Beautiful" (an Art-Musical Lecture Recital on the Life of Christ) for sixty-six consecutive nights under the management of The Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua System. Mr. Keith Vawter, the manager, says that nothing has been done along the same line on the Lyceum platform, or elsewhere, to approach its merit.
This summer the same recital was rendered on the still larger circuit of the Western Redpath Chautauqua System, Mr. Chas. F. Horner, manager. Here is Mr. Horner's estimate:
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 12, 1911. Father P. J.   MacCorry,  in  his  illustrated  lecture,  "The   Story   Beautiful," has, in my opinion, the most remarkable production of the kind that the lecture platform affords.
The mechanical effects are perfect, the pictures artistic triumphs, the lecture itself a literary masterpiece, and the lecturer one of the most powerful and magnetic men on the platform.
Father MacCorry brings to the Lyceum and Chautauqua the highest type of culture and a great dramatic ability.
I believe that although the mechanical perfection and the wonderful pictures of "The Story Beautiful" are remarkable, indeed, yet without the assistance of these Father MacCorry is still one of the most masterful orators of the present age.                                                                       CHAS. F. HORNER.