The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-05
BYRON W. KINGS FINE EFFORT
splendid Intellectual Treat for Ly-
ceum Course Went hers.

CSMm course IA q m ucES.
The fourth regular number Of the
Wichita Lyceum course was given OH
Monday night to a large and interested
audience. The attraction was Mr.. Byron
W. King of Pittsburg in his scholarly
lecture, "AlI the Worlds a Stage" Mr.
King is one of those rare personalities
whose platform presence and magnetic
culture carry his audience with him,
keeps them close to him, and makes
them feel that they are rather in a par
Tor listening each one by himself to 3. re-
fined and cultivated mans personal con-
versahon. In fights Of inspiring elo-
quence he would soar to lofty heights OF
impassioned oratorical reaches; then
with the utmost delicacy gently carry his
theme downward to a soothing vein Of
the facetious. the humorous and comic.
His splendid mastery of pure English
was a study for any student Of rhetoric
and the Evolutionary art; his humor,
ehaste and warming; his anecdotes, fresh
and applicable. and his pathos touching
and thrilling. He has the fine physical
stature Of a commanding stage presence
and the magnificent voice OF a trained
vocalist A big man. big in heart, In
brain and in body, he can not help being
entertaining, and the attentive audience
present unitedly pronounce him among
the very best which Manager Boyle has
secured during his six course series.
Mr.. King showed his complete mastery
and intuitjve conception Of the whole
range Of Shakespeare's matchless genius.
and his many references to and quota
tons from the great master dramatist
were fresher somehow and seemed to
bear s. new message and another appll-
cation The old familiar gems Of Ham
let's soliloquy; Portals epilogue on mer-
oy; Polonius' farewell advice to his de-
parting son. Laertes; Mark Antony's ap-
peal TO the Roman rabble; Lady Mac
beths horrible self-denunciatory anathe-
mas-these, and many more, ready quot
ings from the dramas and lyrics Of the
Bard Of Avon brought home 20 the lis
teners a new idea of the greatness OF the
poets conception, as well as a more COM
plete realizing sense that after all, as
the playwright himself portrays, "An
the worlds a stage" The speaker glow
ingly urged every one within the sound
OF his voice to fall in love with his or her
work He eloquently declared that when
President Lincoln struck the shackles
from the black man slave he did net and
could not ernancirate all slaves. rs there
was no darker and more malignant serv-
ituds than that OF the man or woman
who went daily to their tasks with their
hearts steeIed fin bitter dislike for their
work. their trade profession or vocation.
whatever It may be. Il Is the man or
the woman who Joys IN his or her ca
reer. humble and Obscure though II may
Re who makes the desert u bloom a. g
garden and makes the world better. more
free. more happy. He spoke feeiingly OF
the memory Of his own little angel
daughter. gone, z tribute In simple love.
to whom was paid on Christmas eve
by a sauaiid little stranger hegear child
IN The form Of a beautiful lily which she
said was so IKE the sweet pure Hfe ~
the child who was gone. and he said De
would rather be that mendicant street
Arab and do that li-tIe deed than ~ li7
forgotten beneath iettered monuments or
7euiptursd stones he rec.te5 how TIE
great SIR Edwin ArR1l5 had crossed f1e
stormy Atlantic for America and gene
straight 70 Chicago. and though weic-u-
ca gran6ly bv the Jake city's popuiscs.
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