NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ORATORY,

ROBERT MCLEAN CUMNOCK, A. M.,

Twelve Instructors,

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Director.

Total Attendance Last Year, 555.

3 DEPARTMENTS

OF WORK:

ELOCUTION, ENGLISH, PHYSICAL CULTURE.

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The only School of Oratory in America that has a building specially designed for its work, and used exclusively by its pupils.

Each pupil receives two private lessons per week during the entire course. Scholarships yielding one hundred and fifty dollars yearly will be furnished to needy and meritorious students.

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Number 7.

Compiled by ELSIE M. WILBOR.

WHAT IS IN IT.

While all the Selections of this number are suitable as Readings or Recitations by either ladies or gentlemen, some are especially adapted to be given as Costume Monologues and Impersonations, or for the introduction of Music, Tableaux, Pantomimes, etc. Below we have attempted a classification which will show the great range of styles and subjects, the occasions for which they are appropriate, and various suggestions on treatment and programs.

The Moose Hunt."-Dramatic.

"WILD WEST" CHARACTER.

"How We Hung Red Shed."-Strong and pathetic. OLD MAN.

"Passed off the Stage."-Pathetic. Scene: Very old man sitting on porch in arm-chair; cane near; voice quavering; articulation as if teeth were gone. "The Old Fire Dog."-Beautiful. Suitable for program of "ye olden tyme." Scene: Old man sitting on chest in attic apostrophizing rusty andirons. II.-Costume Encores for Men. AWKWARD FARMER LAD.

"Supposin'." "A Genius."

YOUNG MAN.-DRESS OF THE PERIOD. "How I Kissed Her." "An Idyl." Didn't Bow."

YOUNG HUSBAND.

"Why They

GRANDMA.

"How Grandpa Proposed."-Quaint. FASHIONABLE MOTHER.

Match-making Mamma."-Fleshy, over-dressed.
Humorous.

V.-Series of Admirable Darky Sketches.
(a) Appropriate as monologues for men in darky
"make-up."
1. "Dancing in the Flat Creek Quarters" may be
given with stringed instrument and rattle-bone ac-
companiment, with quadrille by colored beaux and
belles, while old darky in foreground calls off.
2. My Chillun's Pictyah." The "chilluns" and pho-
tographer may be actually present and the darky
arrange his brood as text explains.

3. "Ebo." Curtain may be withdrawn at close to
show Ebo, slate under one arm, books under other;
studious expression.

4. "How to Eat Possum." Explicit directions given, sitting on dry goods box.

5. "Brer Rabbit and the Little Girl." Uncle Remus's truth and quaintness.

(b) Readings.

"A Modern Elijah."-Pathetic.

"The Pickaninny."-Quaint study of darky child-life. VI.-Readings or Recitations.

(Long enough to give "body" to program.)

(a) Historical or Legendary.

(Suitable to open program.)
"The Convict and the Soldier."-Tragic.
A Siberian sketch.

"In Terror of Death."-Dramatic.
Sketch of French Revolution.
"The Last Redoubt."-Dramatic.
Bravery of a Muscovite maid.

"The Knight of Toggenburg."-Pathetic.

German Sketch of Middle Ages.

Legends. (Lenora."--Weird, music accompaniment. "A Ballad of the East and West."-Dramatic. Oriental tale.

An

"Papa and the Boy."-Appreciated anywhere.
"Dan'l O'Connell's Humor."-Especially appreciated
by schools and students.

VII.-"Play" Readings.

(Continued on next page.)

Special suggestions elsewhere at V. and IX.

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