The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-04
WILLIAM S. BATHS
COMING TO ANDERSON
Win Appear During Musical Fes-
tival March Seventeen, Eigh-
teen and Nineteen

There are times" said Mr.. VIM.
Lauglin, chairman Central Musical
Festival committee that we wonder
why men know so little about their
business-doctors are put down as
good guessers. lawyers cannot make
out case without Iaboriousiy con-
suiting their law, books, ministers
surround themselves with so many
books on theology, Bible history, inter
probation and exegeses, with a goodly
number of printed sermons, bound
volumes OF the Homiletic Review and
all manner of tracts, magazines and
religious publications that he really
inhales religion, absorbs theology and
by, his. environment he lives and
thinks, feels and sees what he
preaches.'
The great actors have been men and
women who made a study of their
parts; many OF them spent years and
thousands OF dollars collecting priv
ate libraries embracing all the known
facts, the first editions, commentaries
and books that really go to make up
a library.
1t is conceded by all who know Will
liam Sterling BATHS, who will appear
in Anderson during the Musical Fes-
tival March, II, 18 and 10, that he is
one OF the best posted, most thorough
lY acquainted and most practical
Dickens scholars in the Iyceum. To
talk with BATHS is to realize that the
sayings of Dickens fall from his lips
as fiuently- as slang from the lips of
a newsboy.
We are apt to wonder where lie gets
all of his Dickens knowledge, but a
peep into his private library may
make one feel that with all that store
house of Dickens literature constantly
before him 1t Is wonder that he, like
the preacher. doctor and lawyer.
doesn't really know more about his
own life work.
You pick up a large volume. 1t is
"Cyclopedia OF the Best Thoughts of
Charles Dickens" tt has been we'll
used, for 1t is marked, counter-mark-
ed, noted and scribbled over in O way
that has destroyed the book for those
who buy to please the eye, but these
pencil designations have made the
book invaluable to the real student.
Here Is volume entitled the Life
OF Charles Dickens by Mackenzie"
here is one by Foster in two volumes,
close by Is another and here another
biographical set. Dickens, as an
Educator" "Tales from Dicaens,"
"The Humor and Pathos of Dickens"
christmas books by Dickens" "a
Critical Study OF Dickens" four En-
cyclopedia volumes of Character
sketches, a collection Of pictures,
cartoons, photographs and old prints
give one a true, touch, OF the real
source OF the knowledge of Dickens
that has given William Sterling Bat
It's his power to hold, to interest and
to entertain the most critical aud
fences at places like the chautauqua
at New York where 1000 sat charmed
and speil-bound by mis- mastery life
portrayals, or the fashionable ladies'
clubs at Lincoln Center here I'D Chi
cago, a college audience of students,
the great ,ei.sutauqua audience Of far
mers, business men and artisans, or
the promiscuous crowd in the small
towns where they have never before
had lyceum course, where the word
lyceum sounds more as though 1t
dealt with the outside of the head
rather than the gray matter on the
inside.
Mr.. BATHS Is without doubt the best
posted, most versatile Dickens I'M
personator in America today His
great character delineationBy rank
with those in Chevalier in artistic
worth and are equally as entertain
jng; in finesse. they surpass his crea-
tions as Dickens surpasses George
Ade.