R.S. Kellerman, lecturer

              R. S. Kellerman, Lecturer
MANAGEMENT
CLEVELAND   LYCEUM    BUREAU
JOSEPH   JORDAN   DEVNEY.   PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND
THE BUREAU RECOMMENDS MR. R. S. KELLERMAN as a Scholarly and entertaining lecturer, who has been upon the platform for a number of years, and has proven his ability to hold, entertain and delight an audience, with the substance of the lecture, the manner of his delivery, and the interesting and beautiful tales and legends which he relates.
Born a Buckeye, educated a Yankee, Mr. Kell erman has been a student of speakers and orators all his life, and his lectures are the outgrowth of his studies of men and things. The stere-opticon has been one of the great aids to convey knowledge more accurately, and make impres¬sions more enduring. But the three latest lectures—"Cranks." "The Great Mogul M and "I'm Glad I Am An America,"—are given without the aid of the stereoptican. The last named lecture is new for next season.
LECTURE SUBJECTS:
"CRANKS,"
"THE GREAT MOGUL,"
"I'M GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN"
Mr.  Kellerman has lectured on   all sorts and conditions of   subjects—Ben  Hur, The  Picturesque Poor* Dante's Divinia Commedia, The Golden Romance of American Petroleum, and others.
Comments on some of the Lectures Wise or Otherwise :
NOT ONLY is the lecture BEN HUR inter¬esting for the time, but it will be a perman¬ent good upon the lives of all who heard it.— Rev. E. W. Renshaw.
MR. KELLERMAN is thorough in whatever he undertakes, and therefore an accomplished master of any subject he handles. —Bradford Evening Star.
I DESIRE to congratulate you on the grand success of vour lecture on BEN HUR at North New Salem. I admired your magnetic delivery and was much pleased with the instructive and elevating character of your lecture.—B. W. Fay.
DR. R. S. KELLERMAN delivered his lecture here on CRANKS last evening, before a large and enthusiastic audience. CRANKS was con¬sidered one of the best numbers of this year's entertaiments. The wit and humor are driven home with a force of argument that is wonder¬ful.—J. R. Clevenger.
MR. KELLERMAN threw down the reins upon the neck of his imagination, and rode with the "Great Mogul," through space over all the past. It WHS mighty interesting. It held my attention from beginning to end. It was a great lecture. —H. 0.   Merkle.
AFTER listening to Mr. Kellerman's lec¬ture on "Cranks" at Careytown, we immediately organized a lecture course here at Centerfield and invited him to deliver the same lecture to us. It is superfluous to add that it is a brilli¬ant and stimulating lecture, worthy of the brain and the energy of the reverend gentleman.—S. A. Turner.
I HEARD the "Crank" with pleasure and profit. Mr. Kellerman is unique in style and pleasing in manner. The lecture is broad in its scope and practical in its application to every day life. Before finishing his lecture the hear¬er is convinced that there is a very important place in the world for even the "Crank."— Walter C. Nash.
 MR. R. S. KELLERMAN'S lecture on "Cranks" is all right. He hits us all hard, and his hardest knocks are true. But we laugh at the ridiculousness of our crankiness. The lec¬ture gives you not only the pleasure of an hour, but you resolve to live better than you have in the past.—Mr. C. E. Lewis.
MR. KELLERMAN presents,in his lecture on "The Picturesque Poor," a series of vivid and thoroughly characteristic pictures of the woe¬ful condition of life among the 'submerged tenth/ The accompanying descriptions greatly enhance the value of the pictures, as they are intensely interesting and make one feel that he is really looking upon these pathetic phases of human life himself.—Dr. Charles Conklin.
A LARGE congregation was at the Church of Eternal Hope, Sunday evening,to listen to an interesting lecture by Mr. R. S. Kellerman. The subject was "Dante and His Imaginary Trip Through Hell." The lecture was illustra¬ted with stereopticon views, which were repro¬ductions of the great pictures by Dore which il-lustrate^he poem. It was, to say the least, a literary treat, and was very instructive. — The Morning Era.
I EXPECTED to hear a few jokes and a jolly on the odd-sticks which we call "cranks," to have a good laugh, come home and forget about it.—I was wrong. Mr. Kellerman's "Cranks" are the great big odd sticks that kick the wheels of progress out of the mire and the ruts, and set them rolling:—leaders, captains, builders, men who "do things." I did laugh — was entertained but more I was thrilled, stirred, and edified. I shall never forget it. it was a great lecture.—A. L. Hannah.
DR. KELLERMAN'S whole lecture on "Cranks," is a valuable object lesson, and plain¬ly illustrates that through the so-called "Crank" the greatest developments of our country have been achieved. By his plainness of expression, good English, humor and wit, he holds the inter¬est of the audience from start to finish.—Jacob Kohlhagen.
R. S. KELLERMAN in his lecture on "The Picteresque Poor "gives some startling statistics and relations of facts of life as how a large percentage of our fellowmen are living. His pictures, though not always beautiful, are true to life, and his pointed conclusions and lessons are stirring and telling. The lecture is inten¬sely interesting and helpful to better living.— Rev. A. B. Church, D. D.
THE Church of Eternal Hope was packed to the doors last evening, with a congregation assembled to hear the concluding address by Mr. R. S. Kellerman on "Dante and His Journey Through Purgatory and Paradise." The lec¬ture was illustrated with stereopticon views, about 40 in number being used, depicting the theme in a most interesting manner.— The Morning Era.
Mr. Charles Turner sat in the center aisle. He tipped his chair back and looked the speaker in the eye. He listened. He laughed. He applauded. He whispered to his neighbor about it. He listened again. He heard something that surprised him, wakened him up, incensed him. He turned away. But still he listened to the very end. At the close he started out. But he turned, came back, shook hands with the speaker, and said: "1 liked your lecture, sir, but not all of it, not all of it! I tell you sir, not all of it!" (But Charles wanted to hear it again!)
Dr. Kellerman, in his lecture 'The Great Mogul," delivered in this city in the interest of the Library As¬sociation, captured his audience by his earnestness, and the evidence that he had fully mastered the contents of contemporaneous literature, and gave a vivid flash of what the mind sees through the writings of the most eminent authors of the past and present age.
Doctor Kellerman's manner of address is fetching, and his occasional bursts of natural wit keeps his audi¬ence en raporte throughout.—Samuel H. Pye, Editor Star-Republican. Blanchester, O.
THE    LECTURE   by   Mr.   Kellerman  was
splendidly presented, both from the standpoint
of thought and delivery, and the operation of
the stereopticon.    It is truly a romance.—A. C.
•    Coit.
HE IS A very able and entertaining speak¬er, and the story of oil, as unfolded by Mr. Kellerman in his lecture and illustrations, be-comes a veritable "golden romance."—Cam¬bridge, News.
"THE GOLDEN ROMANCE OF AMERICAN PETROLEUM " was the first complete descriptive account of the commercial discovery, distilling, refining, transporting and marketing the natural oil. The lecture was prepared and delivered under the auspices of the McKean County His¬torical Society, of which Mr. Kellerman was curator.
THE LECTURE is a graphic and truthful de¬scription of the discovery and early history of the development of petroleum in this state, where the industry had its infancy. It was re¬plete with anecdote and fact and is regarded as authentic by the pioneers of the oil region. It :8 finely illustrated with lantern slides from rare photographs.-- R. B. Stone.
MR. R. S. KELLERMAN'S "Great Mogul" was perfectly grand. It was a lucid study, like a chapter in psychology, adorned with wit and laughter. The illustrations from Victor Hugo were illuminating and fascinating. I en¬joyed it from start to finish.—Robert Burton, Supt. Schools.
MR. KELLERMAN'S LECTURE on "The Great Mogul," was listened to with interest. He is a powerful speaker, full of life and vigor. The lecture not only sparkles with wit, but contains stories and word-pictures, which carry the list¬eners into the great realities of life, and make each one long for, and believe in. the great possibilities in store for us. —Greenville, 0., Daily Tribune.
I HAVE LISTENED to Mr. R. S. Kellerman time and again, in his lectures on the "Mogul," the "Crank," and other addresses. And when he is, in the eloquence of his descriptions and delivery, sometimes on earth, and sometimes he soars into the skies, but he always carries his audiences with him.    But at home he is my very
plain neighbor, on Four-Acres, at Blanchester, Ohio.—I. M. Statler.
"MR. KELLERMAN : The pupils that at¬tended are still talking about the lecture, (Cranks). One said he forgot to take notes, after beginning, for watching the speaker. They would like to have another; wonder if the school could not arrange for one. The older ones are as enthusiastic as the younger ones. The elder Mr. Hill asked if we had arranged for you to come back again."—M. A. Brown, Prin. of Schools.
IT TAKES TWO to make a lecture—the speaker and the audience. A bench had just broken down and sent a whole row of young people sprawling on the floor. When the lect¬urer entered the hall the whole house was in a jolly uproar. The speaker caught the infec¬tion, and "Cranks" was a dandy. Everybody was pleased, satisfied and benefitted. Mr. Kellerman made the audience laugh home splendid lessons of human greatness.—T. A. Davis.
MR. R. S. KELLERMAN is a faithful student of the oil industry, knows the stages of its de¬velopment and the men who made petroleum known in every part of the world. He portrays accurately and interestingly, by speech and by views upon the screen, the early busy scenes that were enacted in the original oil field in Pennsylvania. The address is an education, an illumination as well as highly entertaining. Mr. Kellerman knows the industry, loves it, and de¬clares it to be the greatest in America, finan¬cially, educationally and morally.—Lewis Emery, Jr.
WE OPENED our Roycroft shop for Mr. Kellerman's lecture this evening, and about 1,000 people enjoyed the entertainment hearti¬ly. The pictures shown of oil region scenes are excellent ones and Mr. Kellerman's description of them and his review of the history of the petroleum business are of unusual interest and very instructive. Mr. Kellerman has one of the most attractive of subjects, and his meth¬od of dealing with it greatly pleased the audi¬ence. This was the first delivery of the lecture on any stage.—Elbert Hubbard.