The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-08
PARLETTE
SAYS THINGS
About the Y. M. c. A. Lee
ture Course.
FINEST AMERICAN TALENT
To be Heard IN Marion Dur
ing Coming Winter.
Two Thousand Dollars Worth of
the Best Brain and Talent In this
Country For Two Dollars.

"That's a great lecture course
you have on the boards for this
winter, Mr.. Oatey, truly great
course. Ii l were told 10 make a
course regardless of expense just
to get eight numbers, the best get
able in all America wouldn t
hesitate to take yours Stuart.
Green, Vaughan, OFT, Gillian, La
Toilette, Katharine Ridgewav and
the Jubes. 7" This was Ralph Par
lette's comment yesterday. He is on
the platform himself, is in close
touch with the lyceum workers,
and continually hears the comment
on their work, hence, his opinion
is based on facts and not testimon-
ials. l.vsiM~ f1x
In selecting a course, You have
thousand different tastes to con-
suit. There is a great section of
Your audience that wants to laugh,
Strick. GILLIAN will split their
sides. Another section wants music
and elocution. The Ridseway and
Ferguson Jubilee companies will
supply them. All want solid meat
in their feast, and your oratorical
section will give saint and Sinner
their portion, roasted, fried, fricas-
sed. It's feast of the heavy dish
es and the trimmings, without the
soup. You havnt any soup. not a
| single cheap number on the list
Everyone Is a top-notcher in his
or her Line and no greater on the
platform"
What about Green, who comes
October 17P Hc is new man here. u
"If Marion people had ever
heard him. your church wouldn y
be large enough. A few years ago
ne was an Episcopal minister in the
West. "A lecture bureau found him
made him the greatest catch offe,
'of recent years, and put him on the
+, platform. His success has beer
phenomenal, emualed only by a few
such men as Vaughan and St,art
also to speak here. Thomas Green
IN his "Key to the Twentieth
Century" gives the greatest picture
Of our country's greatness Won will
ever hear, and with it he points
cut the country's dangers in way
to stir one. remember being in
a Chautauqua tent two years ago
while Green was giving this lee
ture. A violent storm came up and
threatened to wreck the tent.
The rain soaked the crowd. But
no one left, norwas there n
symptom of stampede. The man
had that audience SO charmed that
no one left, nor was there a
small thing as a thunderstorm. He
can pile mp the tremendous and
sway crowd as can few living
men. You start your course with
a good growing color, Green, and
YOU won't be blue when it is
over.
"Father Vaughan is another of
these monumental successes. The
stage lest a Mansfield when he left
it for holy orders. IF the wear
had a thousand days, Vaughan
could fill it, for he is unable to
accept half the calls for him.
The beautiful part of it all is,
that the money he gets for lectur-
ing all goes to the support of the
orphaLs home he founded up in
Wisconsin.
Amherst OFT is a lot OF dyna-
mite fired with "a laugh. He is a
rapid fire gun with whole pow
dermill of brains behind it. Chi
cago hasn't any better. L go to a
town six months after OFT and
find the people still talking about
his "Sour Glapeso and "Haunted