The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-26
Prominent Orator and Lyce-
um LectHer Proved Inter-.
esting Attraction at Assem-
bly, this Afternoon.
FINE PROGRAM WAS
GWEN LAST NIGHT
Lincoln McConnelf spoke "
a Most Brilliant Mnper
on Enforcement OF tie
Law in This Nation.
eY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Byron W. King, head of the School
of Oratory in Pittsburg gave the first
of a series of two lectures this after
noon before an appreciative audience.
Mr.. King being one of the best known
of the lyceum and chautauqua lectur-
ers. His subject. Eyes that See Not.
and Ears That Hear Not" was treated
in an entertaining, II somewhat dis
cursive, fashion, the speakers theme
being the loss to the individual of
much of the beauty and wonder OF life
through density, perversity. lack Of
continuity. prejudice, snobbery. ignor-
ance, insularity, and the thousand and
one mental and physical habits both
natural and acquired, due to heredity
and environment Mr.. King is typical
Chautauqua lecturer and gave his au-
dience much enjoyment.
Mr. Kings lecture was preceded by
a band concert and the first appear
ance of the Virginia Jubilee singers.
the latter giving program of popular
airs and old fashioned melodies, with
all the inherent musical grace and
charm Of their race.
Mr.. King will appear again this ev-
ening in What Fools These Mortals
Be" and the Jubilee singers will close
the evenings procedure.
BATHS lmpersonations-
London was Dickens library" said
William Sterling BATHS last evening
while making up for his imporsonation
OF the great novelist before introduc
| lhE the iatters repertoire OF charac
tefs, Mr.. BATHS going on to say that
refer to. This was happy characteri
zation OF the great English fictionist's
sources OF supply and served as an
epigrammatic foreword to the presen.
tation of his personality. Mr.. BATHS
taking for his model the popular notion
Of Charles Dickens in the flesh based
upon the well known profile picture
seen In editions of his novels and 9th
erwhere. BATHS lent this an effective
Illusion.
So STEPPED has Mr.. BATHS become
| with the spirit of Dickens philosophy
that his depletion Of some Of the most
typical of the latter's creations and
which included "Pecksniff," Captain
Cutie from "Dombey and Son.. "Ur
iah Heep" and .Micawber" from Nich,
olas Nickleby, sBill Sykes from "Ol
iver Twist Rogue Riderhood" from
l"Our Mutual Friend" the "Grandfath
er" from "Old Curiosity Shop" MRS
McStinger." and Sidney Carton.
from THE Tale Of Two Cities, and
SO careful has been his study OF the
| Icontemporaneous illustrators of the
writer. as well as the descriptive text
that his impersonations take on the
character of reality. 1t is the imagin
alton of the Greater visualized.
Has Serious Rival.
Mr.. BATHS as feminine impersona
tor" for Mrs. McStingle was made tt
live, and this without caricature- al
though Dickens himself was somewhat
given to caricature by the way-ths
fine line of artistic restraint not being
over-stepped.
| Mr.. BATHS has the type of counter
ance that lends itself. In makeup, t.
the gentler and nobler emotions, q,
seen in Sidney Carton" and thu
grandfather of Little Nell" and ye1
his Interpretation of the characters o
Bill Sykes" and Rogue Riderhood.
were CONVINCING his depletion Of the
whimsical rascality OF the latter be
ing notably good.
Mr.. BATHS stated, and with thil
there could be little dissent that Ger
tain qualities were SO accentuated II
Dickens characters that the latter hax
become synonyms for the former, and
that many persons who do not know
the novels Of Dickens are familiar
with the names Of their principal char
Eacters because OF this fact
Dickens was fond of depicting thu
hypocrite.' said Mr.. BATHS. Peck
sniff was the keynote of his Who'll,
philosophy"
The pleasure Mr.. BATHS gave ias
evening was in his intellectual appre
citation Of his subject and OF its con
sequent unerring and symathetic treat
ment- He was not lost in his makeup
as js too often the case with actors o
this class. His makeup was subordi