Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — TALENT SELECTED FOR EXCELLENT LYCEUM COURSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
TALENT SELECTED FOR EXCELLENT LYCEUM COURSE
Attractions for Season of 1920*21 Announced. COURSE SURE TO PLEASE Numbers Will Be Both Insplrino and Enjoyable—Beason Ticket Bala Should Bo Largo. The attractions which are to appear on the Lyceum course here this season have been announced. The various numbers have been especially well selected and everything points to a large sale of season tickets for the course. The attractions were secured from the well known Redpath Lyceum Bureau, and this in itself is a guarantee of satisfaction. People are more than eager this year for instructive, inspirational lectures and clean entertainment, and the splendid attractions to be heard here are sure of a hearty reception. The numbers on the course are as follows: PROCTER COMPANY.
In presenting Mr. Harold Procter, the eminent Irish tenor, and supporting artists, Miss May Bees, violinist, and Miss Fleta Lawrance, pianist, the Redpath Bureau predicts that every community which enjoys an artist trio of extraordinary attainments, acknowledged ability and superior accomplishments, win find this company meeting or surpassing every expectation. Mr. Harold Procter has sung throughout the British Isles, singing in concert and oratorio under such men as Hans Richter, Gaul and other great English composers and conductors and In company with the leading singers of England. He later traveled throughout the United States In companies headed by Kitty Gordon, Frltzi Scheff and Charlotte Greenwood. For two years he was tenor soloist at the
Temple Baptist church, Los Angeles, the largest church west of the Mississippi. - \ Miss May Rees is of Welsh descent, coming from a noted musical family. She has studied with the masters of both America tad Europe. Miss Fiets- Lawrance is well equipped by nature and training for the Important plpce she has in the program of the Procter Company. As an accompanist, she is dominated by that fine spirit of understanding and sympathy so necessity as the background of an artist. As a pianist she displays in her solo numbers a power and technique which insures for her a future of unusual brilliancy. THOMAB BROOKS FLETCHER.
Thomas Brooks Fletcher is one of the real stars of the lecture platform. 'Thomas Brooks Fletcher,” says Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, “is one of the most powerful orators of our time. He is not the old type of platform entertainer. He entertains but he also has a powerful message, and knows how to deliver it. People want to hear about the things that are being done and need to be done in this country, and that is what Fletcher is telling them about, and he is telling It In a way that commands attention, provokes thought and stimulates men to action. He leaves the impress of
HAROLD PROCTER.
