Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — Large Audience Was Delighted With Landon Character Delineations. [ARTICLE]

Large Audience Was Delighted With Landon Character Delineations.

Monday night’s number of the Epworth League lecture course was one of the very best that has even been given here and the large audience was kept in a constant twitter of delighted appreciation. The evennig’s entertainment was in the hands of Sidney Landon, a character delineator, whose introductory remarks, clever little stories, light reasoning and brief descriptions as well as his character representations were approved by every member of the Mr. Landon undertakes the most difficult impersonations in depicting members of “Uncle Sam’s Family” and all of them are well known types, with many of whom we have come in contact either directly or by familiarity with their works. He gave brief biopraphical sketches of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Bill Nye and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, as he deftly applied the facial paints and donned the hair and beard of the characters and then recited some selection in which the author had taken a deep heart interest. Naturally with Poe he selected “Annabelle Lee” and with Longfellow “The Psalm of Life” and so much feeling did he put into his rendition of these beautiful verses that the auditor could almost think himself to be listening directly to those talented and devoutly admired personages With a voice capable of conformity to the characters and with every movement suggesting the mourner of the one he impersonated, Mr. Landon proved a deep and intelligent understanding of the great characters he depicted, and also a heart and a mind that has found the very essence of good and the living and lasting qualities that make the man even greater than the works they performed. * The diversity of Mr. Landon was shown in his clever burlesque of modern characters, In which lie proved that man should not be led from a field in which he has attained- success by his ambition to enter other fields, and also that much of the modern education given singers and elocutionists make them quite ridiculous.

Mr. Landon’s visit, to Rensselaer will long be remenibered as affording bis audience the opportunity of seeing Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Samuel L. Clemens and Edgar Wilton Nye in the rendition of their most popular works, and should he ever Come to Rensselaer again he will doubtless find himself confronted by a capacity house.