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OF DISTINCTION

1939

BOAKE CARTER [[image]]
All America knows the voice of this fearless critic of the New Deal. His vigorous comments on world news are heard from coast-to-coast Boake Carter is available in the East for a limited number of lecture engagements, and his countless admirers there will have an opportunity to hear him speak at greater length than the limits of broadcasting permit.
"EDITORIALIZING THE NEWS"

ANDRE MAUROIS [[image]]
Andre Maurois is that paradox, a Frenchman who thinks and writes in English. England has become his favorite subject, because he believes in the survival of British Democracy. His greatest books deal with British themes: "The Miracle of England," "Disraeli," "Dickens." On previous visits he has been most popular.
"THE WRITER AND HIS PUBLIC,"
"FRENCH WIT, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HUMOR," etc.

STEFAN ZWEIG [[image]]
First American Tour of the most translated living author. The main feature of Stefan Zweig's work is universality. His works range from great biographies like "Mary, Queen of Scots" and "Marie Antoinette" to short stories, psychological studies. He will attempt to analyse the processes of creative art, explain how immortal works are created by mortal beings.
"SECRET OF ARTISIC CREATION."
"HISTORY OF TOMORROW."

STUART CLOETE [[image]]
His novel, "The Turning Wheels," telling of the Great Trek in South Africa, is a best-seller on two continents. Guardsman, Rancher, Novelist, he is easier to bound than describe. The Rancher belongs to the open, the Guardsman in a Park Lane drawing room. With a gift for the exact, in writing or speaking, his coming as lecturer should be a cause for excitement.
"OUR LAST FRONTIERS."

VICKI BAUM [[image]]
All the world knows "Grand Hotel" and through it the attractive European novelist, Vicki Baum. Few women have achieved such international fame as this much discussed Viennese, who is also author of "Life Goes On," "Falling Star," and the current best-seller "Tale of Bali." Her return to the lecture platform was so successful she will again tour in 1938-39.
"WHY BE AFRAID?"
"TALES OF BALI."

[[image]]REINALD WERRENRATH 
America's Favorite Baritone in Lecture-Recital
"THE STORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC"
"MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND IRELAND"
Reinald Werrenrath has made a new dent in the hearts of the public with these lecture-recitals. They permit him to tell a host of anecdotes about his musician friends, at the same time singing a full concert program of his greatest song hits.

ELSA MAXWELL [[image]]
Elsa Maxwell is an American institution. She has capitalized society's need for novel, even bizarre, entertainment. Her "parties" have won for her international fame, and, incidentally, an acquaintance with everyone worth knowing--Kings, Dukes, Princes, artists, writers, the "400." Elsa Maxwell, adored on two continents for her joviality, good-natured fun and an originality that is unsurpassed, admits she has lived by her wits! She reveals as it is in
"THE CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY."

SIR DENISON ROSS, C.I.E. [[image]]
England's foremost authority on languages, he can speak at least a dozen and lecture in six. Sir Denison comes to America to deliver the famous Lowell Lectures during the winter of 1938-39, and will be available for general engagements telling us about oddities of the tongue we have inherited. He recently retired as Director of the School of Oriental Studies in the University of London.
"THE EVER-GROWING ENGLISH LANGUAGE."

BURTON CRANE [[image]]
Now on the staff of The New York Times as financial writer and writer of special articles on the Far East, Burton Crane was for the 11 years past financial editor of The Japan Advertiser, and, for most of that period, editor of The Trans-pacific Weekly Review. He knows his Japan, his orient, as few do, he understands the motives back of Japan's foreign policy, a mixture of strength and apparent weakness. He has lived through Japan's emergence from a background of formalized emotion into a yearning for romance.
"ASIA AT WAR,"
"CAN JAPAN HOLD OUT?",
"WALL STREET AND THE NEW DEAL."

JACOB BAKER [[image]]
Head of Pres. Roosevelt's commission that visited 10 European countries studying co-operative enterprises, Jacob Baker knows as much as any man today on this topic of the moment. He has also had wide experience in the field of industrial relations and offers lectures of utmost value on problems of the day--labor, industry, collective bargaining.
"THE POWER OF THE MARKET BASKET,"
"INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND BUSINESS STABILITY,"
"WHAT AN EMPLOYER GETS FROM A UNION CONTRACT."

JAMES THOMAS WILLIAMS, Jr. [[image]]
Never has there been such an urgent need for honest presentation and non-partisan interpretation of national and international affairs. In presenting to the American public this recently appointed Washington Representative of The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, Mr. Peat offers the ablest independent man available in this field. Mr. Williams, for 12 years Editor-in-Chief of the famous Boston Transcript has a record in journalism equalled by few.
"WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD--FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW."

BEN LUCIEN BURMAN [[image]]
Author of "Steamboat Round the Bend," known as "America's New Mark Twain," Ben Lucien Burman offers in his unique programs stories that recapture the throbbing soul of "Old Man River." One can hardly term these programs "lectures;" they are exciting recitals that are replete with humor, romance, and drama. Mr. Burman has a new novel that will shortly be published, "Blow for a Landing."
"HUMOROUS STORIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI."

ROSE QUONG [[image]]
Those who have had the rare pleasure of hearing Rose Quong know that few who speak the English language have a greater command of it than she. In other years she has visited us with her dramatic programs, her re-telling of stories and poems from the Chinese. Now in addition to her "entertainments," she brings a burning, passionate lecture about her country. It is tremendous.
"THE SOUL OF CHINA," (lecture).
"STORIES AND POEMS FROM THE CHINESE,"
"IN A CHINESE GARDEN."

SYDNEY THOMPSON
presenting . . . 
SCENES from the World's Great Writers
MAUPASSANT    TURGENEV
O.HENRY       BALZAC
DOSTOIEVSKY   BOCCACCIO
Medieval Tales
Original Monologues
COMEDY - SATIRE - ROMANCE

Transcription Notes:
First transcribed 5-6-21