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HAL HOLBROOK in “Mark Twain Tonight!” HAL HOLBROOK in “Mark Twain Tonight!” NOTE: While Mr. Twain’s selections will come from the complete list below, we have been unable to pin him down as to which of them he will do. He claims it would cripple his inspiration. However, he has generously conceded to a printed program for the benefit of those who are in distress and wish to fan themselves. SELECTION SOURCE Compliments Collection……………………………………………………..Miscellaneous Chaucer, Sailor, Tennessee Girl……………………………………………..Miscellaneous Slow Train, Long Dog………………………………………………………Following the Equator Charity, Reform, Cats……………………………………………………….Miscellaneous My Cigar Habit?…………………………………………………………….Miscellaneous The Marienbad Cure…………………………………………………………Essays A Cyclopedia of Sin……………………………………………………….. Miscellaneous Smoke Rings………………………………………………………………..Miscellaneous A Moral Pauper……………………………………………………………..Following the Equator Hunting the Water Closet………………………………………………….. Mark Twain’s Notebook Virginia City……………………………………………………………….. Roughing It Shoveling Sand…………………………………………………………….. Roughing It The Ant………………………………………………………………………A Tramp Abroad The Great Landslide Case…………………………………………………..Roughing It The Lord Will Provide………………………………………………………Autobiography The German Opera………………………………………………………….A Tramp Abroad A Genuine Mexican Plug……………………………………………………Roughing It San Francisco………………………………………………………………..Miscellaneous Crippling the Accordion…………………………………………………….Sketches The Anarchist Story………………………………………………………. Speeches Baker’s Bluejay……………………………………………………………...A Tramp Abroad The Sweet Bye and Bye……………………………………………………..Essays: The Invalid Story His Grandfather’s Old Ram…………………………………………………Mark Twain’s Notebook Congress: The Grand Old Asylum…………………………………………Miscellaneous The Press…………………………………………………………………..Speeches Down There in Washington……………………………………………… Miscellaneous Running For President…………………………………………………… Miscellaneous The Sandwich Islands……………………………………………………… Roughing It The Italian Guide……………………………………………………………Innocents Abroad My Encounter With an Interviewer…………………………………………Sketches Accident Insurance………………………………………………………….Speeches The Supreme Art……………………………………………………………Letters from the Earth White Suit………………………………………………………………….. Speeches Requesting a Hymn Book…………………………………………………..Mark Twain in Eruption Money is God……………………………………………………………….Notebooks Decay in the Art of Lying………………………………………………….. Essays & Miscellaneous Advice to Youth…………………………………………………………… Speeches Taming the Bicycle………………………………………………………….Essays The Evolution of Man………………………………………………………Biography Insanity: Elections, War and Petrified Opinions……………………………..Miscellaneous Huck and Jim……………………………………………………………….Huckleberry Finn Shooting of Boggs…………………………………………………………. Huckleberry Finn Huck, Jim and ‘Lizbeth..……………………………………………………..Huckleberry Finn Huck’s Conscience…………………………………………………………Huckleberry Finn Lost in the Fog……………………………………………………………..Huckleberry Finn Lynching and China…………………………………………………………Essays A Helluva Heaven…………………………………………………………..Letters from the Earth Slavery: A Holy Thing……………………………………………………..Autobiography Man, That Poor Thing………………………………………………………Biography Noah’s Ark………………………………………………………………….Letters from the Earth Chief Love…………………………………………………………………..Mark Twain in Eruption The Creator’s Pet………………………………………………………….. Letters from the Earth The War Prayer…………………………………………………………….. Europe and Elsewhere The Christian Bible………………………………………………………….Miscellaneous Circumstances……………………………………………………………….Mark Twain In Eruption Our Civilization………………………………………………………………Autobiography A Ghost Story……………………………………………………………… Short Stories Sunrise on the River…………………………………………………………Life On the Mississippi The Get Rich Quick Disease………………………………………………..Miscellaneous The Thin Skin……………………………………………………………….Mark Twain’s Notebook The Virgin Mary…………………………………………………………….Ladies Home Journal Praying for Gingerbread…………………………………………………….Autobiography Boyhood on the Farm……………………………………………………… Autobiography Taking Along the Window Sash……………………………………………Innocents Abroad My Trained Presbyterian Conscience……………………………………….Autobiography How I Stole My Name…………………………………………………….. Life on the Mississippi Livy………………………………………………………………………….Autobiography How to Be Seventy………………………………………………………… Speeches My Ancestor Satan………………………………………………………….Short Stories The Hartford Home…………………………………………………………..Letters Susy’s Prayer………………………………………………………………..Autobiography Halley’s Comet…………………………………………………………….. Biography Mary Ann……………………………………………………………………Speeches INTERMISSION: Two? Or One MUSIC: A trombone player was engaged, but is unreliable and should not be expected. NO DOGS ALLOWED IN THE DRESS CIRCLE * * * * * * * * * * Production Supervisor……………………………………………… Richard Costabile Assistant to Mr. Holbrook……………………………………………Joyce Cohen Exclusive Tour Direction…………………………………………….Klaus W. Kolmar,The Booking Group, Inc. The Television Special of HAL HOLBROOK in MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! is now available on video by calling 1-800-458-5887. No audio or video transmitting or recording device of any kind shall be used in any manner to reproduce artist’s performance. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Due to financial cutbacks in funding for the arts, the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, which houses Mark Twain’s papers, may have to curtail its activities. This is perhaps the most ambitious publishing enterprise in the annals of American literature, issuing scholarly editions of Mark Twain’s work which include a wealth of newly discovered material. If you would like to help the Mark Twain Project continue its exciting research and publication, please send a tax-deductible contribution to: The Mark Twain Project, 480 Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. Make checks payable to “The Friends of the Bancroft Library.” Thank you. --Hal Holbrook .
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