The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-10
VANDALISM on THE lARLHlM CAMPUS
Someone Jumps from Behind Bush, Cries BOO.
Frightens the Servants. and the Campaign Of
Defacing the Landscape Is Started

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this size. Bogfes are couiured IN thaH
do not exist, For nothing can b more
exquisite than the stAr.strewn nieht
when the human creature runs to COW
er and stcsily sleeps the tine away.
Or no fascination sreater than to flnA
oueself almost alone In the mystorioua
stiffness and sAadow-haunted silence.
To have the world. for the Uomeut
to oneself
| Why be afraid! And Why 70 round
chopping up barberry bushes!
| The Psychology OF fear may BE- curl
GUS. but the Psychology OF an audisnce
| 10 equally 30. And the writer here
with yields the palm Of admiration
to the ChautauQua entertainer" Per.
sonally one may not care for him. May
think his discourse banal May know
his jokes to be hoary with age. May
be bored within IN inch Of one,a lifo
| with the whole thing. But for his
technique. II It can be so called. moth
ing but . profound obeisancs can b
Forthcoming.
/ Take Ralph Bingham.
Bingham appeared before an aua1.
ence at the tail end Of day. An au-
dience surfeited with Bryan. Cotton.
Vincent, BANDS Band. the Apollo CON-
pany. and heaven knows what sloe.
An audience Of fully four thousand
people representing every variety Of
mentality and almost every social
class. An audience whose frinees
were constantly waverine in and out
in vague inattention The auditorium
open to the out-ofdoofs and whoes.
covering was . tent-most difficult for
carrying the MISREPRESENTATION q
certain maintenance Of pitch not cali
ed for In audience-rocms built for TIE
concentration OF sound.
And yet Bingham had them with
him from the start. Anyway no pull.
ed the strings his was the instant re-
Spouse.
And with what did he do it-noth-
ing ut all. A few old stories. 4 mu-
steal stunt done here In vaudeville q
half dozen years ago. A great deal
OF clever bodily genuflection-and that
was ALL But--they know how to do
II. these chaps. They arc better 90
tors BY far than many celebrated BE-
hind the footlights. Their materinb
is so slight and their audiences 90 un-
certain.
But nOnetheless. its great thing
and fine thing. In It's way, their &C
complement. and that you must
have. first and all the time. the secret
Of its manipulation. was ssdly illus
trated by the appearance Of Mr..
George Early later In tho week.
George r. Early. former citissn o.
Richmond. bon vivant and = famous
''raconteur. entertained his hearers last
evening with . delightful. inoonse-
quent lecture on Other Days taking
for the basis OF his treatment the vii
lage In which he passed his childhood =
said this paper the day after.
This was all true enough. But Ear.
~ did not hold his audience. Why? H.
cause he didn't know how. Unaccus-
toned to speaking In an~AuditOrium Of
this description he did not know how
to place his voice. installing the char
acter OF his audience he strummed too
long on ono string.
People are quickly bored and rs
easy to get ont Of tent. Nothing II
so frankly cruel - an audience OF
this description. We're bored and
we're going. And they 50.
Mr.. Early had good stuff Ii his lee.
tire although II was evidently intend
ed to entertain IN audience moro like
an old settlers meeting or bucoiic
Sunday school convention. But Mr..
Early IL not versed In the arts-not
art-of the chAutauqus platform. and
although there was much more sub.
stance to him than TO Bingham. Early
lost out and Bingham won. II vas
merely the game OF how to do Il.