The igog course of public entertainments given by the Association was 

 initiated on November 5, at which the attraction was the Olive Mead Quartette. 

 These young- ladies are now in the front rank of chamber music performers, and 

 their work was highly appreciated by the audience, which should have been 

 larger. We (rust that the members of the Association will do their share 

 toward making the remaining two entertainments of the course a financial as 

 well as an artistic success. 



On Monday evening, November 22, in the Curtis Lyceum, Mrs. Bertha 

 Kunz Baker will read "The Blue Bird," a fairy play by Maurice Maeterlinck. 

 Mrs. Baker is well known on Staten Island, and her work never fails to give 

 pleasure. As an interpreter of the drama, Mrs. Baker stands absolutely alone 

 tor range of vision, breadth of sympathies, versatility of genius and power of 

 inspiring enthusiasm. French and German by decent, American by birth, in- 

 tensely American in her sympathies, educated in the public schools of America, 

 subsequently living and studying at various times in England, Germany, France, 

 Switzerland, Italy, Mrs. Baker has been associated with the schools, the uni- 

 versities, the Chantauquas, the lecture courses of forty-seven states and territories, 



The price of admission is one dollar. 



The committee in charge furnishes the following appreciative quotations 

 from individuals and journals concerning Mrs. Baker's reading: Mrs. Baker is 

 incomparable. Her method is so simple, so without apparent effort that it is 

 difficult to tell how she creates her tremendous effects. No grimaces, no elocu- 

 tionary agonies. It is the inner nature of her characters that makes them stand 

 out vividly, alive. Now the fairy elf, Rautendelein; now the old witch, Wittiken; 

 now Heinrich, the bell-founder, throbbing with love and longing; each character 

 distinct, individual and in consistent relation to the whole. The work is sus- 

 tained throughout in an exquisitely pure and .poetic atmosphere. — New York 

 Critic. 



The moods of reverence and pure compassion in which "Parsifal" was con- 

 ceived, were admirably reproduced in Mrs. Baker's voice, which has a remark- 

 able richness and softness. When Mrs. Baker had finished, the audience left 

 the theatre uplifted with that mighty religious awe which a complete presenta- 

 tion of the work gives. — Chicago Record- Herald. 



I have always disliked to hear my own poems read, but it was a pleasure 

 to me to listen to Mrs. Baker's reading of "Juduth and Holofernes." She has, 

 I think, that magnetic quality which is not to be taught in schools, — Mr. Thomas 

 Bailey Aldrich. 



I have often thought, since Mrs. Baker gave her marvelous interpretations, 

 that it would be a wonderful education— in standard poetry particularly— to 

 hear her frequently and in a systematic fashion. — Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of 

 The Review of Reviews." 



Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker stands at the very head of her chosen profession. 

 A scholarly mind, a sympathetic heart, a glorious voice and a masterful and ex- 

 quisite art enable her to interpret grandly the masterpieces of literature. She 

 herself is an inspiration. — Mr. Leland Powers. 



I have listened to Murdock, Scott-Siddons and many others of the best 

 artists, and in my judgment Mrs. Kunz Baker is the peer of the greatest. 



Her mobility of face and feature, her flexibility of utterance and sweetness 

 of tone, her compelling sense of power, purity and tenderness, her consummate 

 skill in ranging the gamut of passion, and yet relieving its stress by delicate 

 humor and softening its fierceness with pathos, her masterful ease and constant 

 charm — all these combine to make her renditions a delight which can never be 

 forgotten.— Judge E. B. Sherman, United States Circuit Court, Chicago. 



Mrs. Baker is superbly equipped for the interpretation of the best literature. 

 She has brain power, a noble physique, a wonderful voice and a nature of large 

 spiritual endowment. I wish she were attached to the teaching force of every 

 important college in the land, that students everywhere might be brought by 

 her into vital contact with "thoughts that breathe and words that burn." — Dr. 

 Richard Burton , University of Minnesota. 



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