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Miss Paul' Hits the Glittering Chautauqua Trail Elaine Carol Main Masthead Logo The Palimpsest Volume 66 | Number 4 Article 4 7-1-1985 Miss Paul' Hits the Glittering Chautauqua Trail Elaine Carol Main Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.uiowa.edu/palimpsest Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Main, Elaine C. "Miss Paul' Hits the Glittering Chautauqua Trail." The Palimpsest 66 (1985), 129-142. Available at: https://ir.uiowa.edu/palimpsest/vol66/iss4/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the State Historical Society of Iowa at Iowa Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in The alP impsest by an authorized administrator of Iowa Research Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -V 9 HK 0 -4 íti * 7 >t áS*. Í.CMiss Paul Hits the Glittering ■ «VS /, ChautauQua Trail A ’ fit by Elaine Carol Main 1* i* X, an all the glitter of a Michael Jackson traveled from tent to tent throughout Iowa and Cconcert and the excitement of a Fourth of brought live entertainment to towns, large and July fireworks display and the fervor of a small. There were lecturers on all types of religious revival meeting be thrown together topics, musical groups, vocalists, and acting into one event? Ask any Iowan who remembers groups. ChautauQua, and the answer is an enthusiastic ChautauQua was a hooking service for Hesh- “YesF and-blood entertainers and educators. The ChautauQua circuits once made Iowa sum­ entertainers were not only hooked into small mers memorable. ChautauQua performers towns by ChautauQua organizers, they were ® l°wa State Historical Department/Office of the State Histor­ delivered in package deals. Generally, a com­ ical Society' 1985 0031 — 0360/85/0708 — 0129 $1.00 munity paid in advance for a three- to seven- 130 The Palimpsest day cycle of performers. Then the hooking There was power in dramatic reading. agents would send elaborate publicity and pro­ That power which could be created by inter­ motional materials — banners, posters, broad­ preting the printed word appealed to Mar­ sides — in advance of the arrival of the garet. She was a short, slight person, but she entertainers. Finally, the tent would arrive. knew that when she “recited” she had power. Within its confines, small-town Americans She could make an audience laugh or cry, and Quickly forgot that they were perched on slab could show them far places even she had never benches or folding chairs borrowed from a local visited. funeral parlor. They sat enthralled as the per­ formances began and their world was broad­ * * * ened by the lecturers, musicians, vocalists, and — most important for one young woman from argaret had always been fascinated by Springville, Iowa — dramatic readers. Mthe power of drama. Ten years younger That young woman was Margaret D. Paul, than the other children in the family, Margaret and she was awed by the way that dramatic had amused herself through a lot of empty time readers hypnotized audiences. She saw how a as a youngster and had spent countless hours in good ChautauQua reader could take the words front of a mirror play acting, reciting, and of a book, add voice fluctuations and pauses and delivering speeches. gestures, and create a gripping story that car­ In addition to a natural dramatic ability, she ried an audience wherever the reader wished. had an unusual amount of gumption and ini- The Springville Methodist Church's Bethany Circle baseball team o f1904. Margaret Paul is third from the right in the back row. (courtesy the author) The Palimpsest 131 The Class of 1904 — Springville High School. Margaret Paul is on the extreme right in the second row. (courtesy the author) tiative. She had been the one who had made an matic reading talents with young people, and unassisted triple play when the members of the Margaret taught in Linn County (Iowa) school Springville Methodist Church’s Bethany Cir­ systems, such as Springville District No. 4, the cle challenged the Presbyterian women to a Independent District of Prairie Valley, and baseball game. Margaret had also written the Marion School Township. twenty-one stanzas of her high school class Using skills honed at Cornell, she began poem that complained about their unjust treat­ presenting programs of readings. By the sum­ ment by the school board. If these are the mer of 1907 Margaret had acQuired enough happiest days of our lives, then life is a battle glowing endorsements from satisfied and pleasures few, she concluded. audiences to warrant printing an advertising Margaret took as much elocution training as folder. 'Testimonials’ came from Iowa Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, churches in Central City, Marion, Mt. Vernon, offered, and obtained a certificate from its Traer, Viola, and her hometown — Spring­ School of Oratory in 1908. The certificate ville. The advertising folder touted her ability Qualified her to share her recitation and dra­ as a reader, impersonator, and elocutionist and 132 The Palimpsest listed forty possible readings, including “The Parson s Butterfly.’ A second brochure, dated 1908, contained endorsements from Iowa I R e a b i n g s towns even farther afield. A third advertising 1 Spreading the Mows 22 .lane Jones brochure contained reference to the Iowa 2 The Slow Race 23 Mother Sez Lyceum and ChautauQua Bureau of Ottumwa. 3 The Ansel and the Shepherds 24 Our ilited Girl The booking and management arrangement 4 The Resurrection 25 The Elf Child must have been successful because a fourth r> The Soldier of the Empire 20 The Shave Store advertising brochure included endorsements The Legend Beautiful 27 When the World Busts from audiences in a four-state region — Iowa, Through Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota. She 7 The Worker In Stone 2« The Elopement now offered impersonations and readings in 8 The Goins of the White Swan 20 A Tragic Parting humor, pathos and dialect, musical recitations, Í) .1 udia 3«) Au f Wieder Sehen and sacred recitals. lu Our Folks 31 Aux I t aliens Meanwhile, summer ChautauQua perform­ 11 The Art ht's Sicret 32 Lecture by One of the Sex ers were playing to full tents in small towns 12 II agar 33 Sweet Girl Graduate across the country. Iowa, always proud of its interest in education and ‘betterment, was a 13 A Record of Bud Luck 34 Studying for the Contest fertile field for the ChautauQua circuits. 14 A Telephone Ru nance 35 A Day of Precious Penalties Indeed, it was a Cedar Rapids man, Keith 1 r> Keeping a Seat at the Benefit 3(5 A Model Story Vawter, who had founded a top booking Hi The MInister’s Call 37 Minty Malvlny agency. One of his headliners and highest-paid 17 The Lie 38 The Cushvllle Mop performers was Leland Powers, a man who 18 The Three Stages 31) Anzeliny entranced audiences with his recitations and hi A Love'y Scene 40 Money Musk readings. Powers commanded a fee of $200 a -0 The Usual Wav 41 Just he Glad night. 21 Scart o’ l)>in’ 42 The Tarson’s Butterfly Margaret was probably in at least one audience that applauded the Bostonian after a M iss Paul's program of readings as it appeared in an program of “monacting. Powers, already pop­ advertising folder of 1907. (courtesy the author) ular and in great demand for his oral reading performances, was uniQue through monacting. costume and make-up. It was an invention which would have intrigued Margaret. In monacting, Powers singly At a time when churches disapproved of dra­ (“mono-”) took all parts in a dramatic play matic plays and considered the theatre evil, (“-acting”). Monacting was better than watch­ Powers had invented a way of making the ing a stage full of actors, according to one works of playwrights — even Shakespeare — Powers admirer: widely popular again. His skill at character acting was labeled “inimitable genius,” and he / can see him now — a distinguished, was called one of the verv few real artists in the scholarly gentleman in evening clothes, field. Margaret s educated but conservative who by a simple change of voice and man­ parents frowned upon the theatre, but they ner portrayed all the characters in Sher­ endorsed the benefits of ChautauQua and idan s Rivals so distinctly that they have included Powers monacting among the lived in my memory these many years, benefits. above any stage characterization with Powers had ten years’ experience giving The Palimpsest 133 public readings and lecturing at famous Boston which was so far from Iowa that it was hardlyy private speech schools when he began his own known in the Midwest. Margaret hadn’t been school, the Leland Powers School of the Spo­ outside of Iowa, much less to the East Coast, ken Word. It was located in the New Century yet that cultural center, Boston, sounded like Building at 177 Huntington Avenue, in down­ the Promised Land. town Boston. The site was also close to his alma mater, Boston University School of Oratorv, * * * and two private schools that offered speech, Emerson College and Curry College. argaret was accepted at Powers school To hone her recitation skills even further, in 1913, and that was no mean feat. The Margaret decided to risk her savings on a year schoolM was selective and expected students to of study at the Leland Powers School of the show talent and progress. Spoken Word. Not only was she applying to a Since the school had begun, ten years school with a strange-sounding name but one earlier, enrollment had been limited to eighty- four students, divided into six sections. Origi­ nally, Powers and his wife, Carol Hoyt Powers, had taught all the classes.
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