The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-03
WELSH LECTURER
MAKES HAPPY HIT
First Number of the Lyceum Course
Proves to be Rare Treat for
all Who Attended.

Occasionally Oroville people are
given rare treat In the entertain
ment line, although small in popula-
tion and far off the beaten path trav-
| eled by professional entertainers, but
never during the years we have liv-
| ed here have the citizens who had the
good fortune to be present last Friday
| night at the Liberty theater had the
opportunity to enjoy such a pleasant
! tertainment as was supplied by Arthur
Walwyn Evans the Welsh lecturer.
| who occupied the stage on that even
| Ing. AS rule lectures are not popu-
lar in Oroville. Possibly that is owing
to the fact that there have been lee
lures delivered here that contributed
very little to the pleasure OF those
, who had the hardihood to turn out
and be, bored, or possibly the mental
strain necessary to appreciate sub
jects selected by some lecturers Is too
great for the average individual. In
this instance no doubt those WAC did
turn out.-and those who did not,
community, will always have cause to
regret their failure to be there-did
so expecting dry, uninteres,ine,
somniferous harangue, and were most
delightfully."- disappointed. Mr.. Evans
had hardly started on his lecture un-
til people commenced stiffening up,
all inclination to doze vanished, and in
few minutes the man vita an artis-
try of words at his command, first had
his audience smiling, then grinning,
then reduced to paroxysms of laughter
until those who could appreciate a
good thing had their tear ducts drain
ed from the effects of continued cach-
nations. But the lecture was not con-
fined wholly to humor, although 1t
seemed hard for Mr.. Evans to say any
thing that was free from a touch of
|jocularity, but at times there was
strain of pathos to his speech and
again he would arise in his word
painting to the height Of ,ratory.
Mr.. Evans is a rapid fire talker. He
speaks as though ne had much to say
and only limited time in which to
say it. His method of talking would
be disagreeable were it not for the
message he has to convey, and the
language used in conveying that mes
sage 1t seems as though he was
wound up to talk at certain gait,
and he never slips cog. He starts off
with jump and is still jumping at the
end There was not malt, not a break
of even "a few moments duration
throughout the lecture. Fault Is not
found with his method or his manner.
Speed only seemed to add piquancy
and pep to his utterances
The subject of Mr.. Evans lecture
was What Western Democracy Means
to Me" and it is regrettable that more
people, and especially those prone to
find fault VITA the government under
which they live, did not hear for
eign born naturalized citizen explain
why he is glad he is a resident of
America enjoying the beneficent laws
OF the best country on earth. AS a
traveller in many lands Mr. Evans is in
a position to draw comparisons be-
tween the United States and other
countries, and the tribute he paid to
his adopted country was fervent and
inspiring. If in the lyceum course the
other two numbers are equally as
clever in their line as the first enter
tainment then this will be the best
course the people of Oroville have ever
signed up and ticket holders will re-
ceive far more than the value Of their
season tickets in unadulterated pleas
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