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Ellen Alma "Nellie" Martel, (; 30 September 1855 - 11 August 1940) was an English-Australian suffragist and elocutionist.

Elocutionist was scheduled to run in the third leg of the Triple Crown. However, a week before the race, Paul Adwell announced the colt had suffered an injury to his right foreleg and would not run in the Belmont Stakes. Elocutionist never recovered from his injury and on September 8, owner Cashman announced that the horse was being retired and would be syndicated to stud. During a career that spanned seven months, Elocutionist finished on the board in all twelve of his starts, winning nine, running second once, and taking third in the remaining two.

However, unable to decide which one to buy, they flipped a coin, and Elocutionist wound up being the one Cashman bought.

George Charleton Barron (c. 1846-1891) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, was a Gateshead-born actor, mimic, elocutionist and general entertainer.

Elocutionist (March 4, 1973 – 1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series.

In 1897, she was preparing a second volume of poems, ultimately publishing three books of poetry in total. Conklin was also remembered as an elocutionist.

Rachel H. Shoemaker, A woman of the century Rachel Walter "Rachie" Hinkle Shoemaker (October 1, 1838 - February 1, 1915) was a dramatic elocutionist and Shakespearean reciter.

Retired to stud duty, Elocutionist met with modest success as a sire. The best of his progeny was Demons Begone, who won the 1987 Arkansas Derby for Loblolly Stable. He was the heavy favorite going into the Kentucky Derby but began bleeding profusely during the race and had to be pulled up. Through his daughter Haute Authorite, Elocutionist is the damsire of 1993 American Horse of the Year Kotashaan.

Lydia Ellen Tritton, after her marriage to Nikolai Nadejin, c.1929 Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон)) was an Australian journalist, poet and "public elocutionist".

"Mia" in Mia Films was short for "made in Australia". Allgood was paid £100 a week for the six-week shoot. Harry Thomas was a leading Sydney elocutionist.

Ednorah Nahar was an African American elocutionist from Boston who flourished between the late 1880s and early 1900s giving dramatic recitations throughout the United States, as well as abroad.

Clara Power Edgerly (?–1897) was a prominent elocutionist and principal of the Boston College of Oratory and Delsarte Ideal Training School, informally known as the Boston College of Oratory.

Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi news presenter, elocutionist and voice actor. He served as the head of the Bangla Service, Voice of America during 1972–2010.

She was the inventor of the "Pureairin" Patent Ventilator. Mannheimer and her husband lived in Baltimore, New York City, St. Louis, and Rochester before settling in Cincinnati where he taught at the Hebrew Union College. They had two sons, Eugene and Leo, who both became rabbis, and two daughters, the dramatist and elocutionist Jennie Mannheimer (Jane Manner), and the elocutionist Edna B. Mannheimer (Edna B. Manner). Mannheimer died in New York, December 17, 1920.

A patient John Lively kept Elocutionist within striking distance then in the stretch passed the tiring leaders to win by three and a half lengths. Scheduled to run in the third leg of the Triple Crown, a week before the race Paul Adwell announced the colt had suffered an injury to his right foreleg and would not run in the Belmont Stakes. Elocutionist never raced again. Paul Adwell continued training Thoroughbreds until retiring in the early 1990s.

Jennie Mannheimer, from a 1900 publication. Jennie Mannheimer (January 9, 1872 – May 26, 1943), also known professionally as Jane Manner, was an American elocutionist, acting coach, and teacher of speech and drama.

121-28, 207-75.1891 Census of Canada. Province of Ontario, District of York West, Village of Richmond Hill, p. 21. Webling's occupation was "elocutionist".Canadian passenger lists, Port of Quebec, S.S. Athenia, September 1931, vol.

M. Helena Zachos, in a 1900 publication. Mary Helena Zachos (March 5, 1856 – February 28, 1951) was an American college professor and elocutionist, who was on the faculty at Cooper Union from 1897 to 1939.

Khilkhil Kazi is a Bangladeshi singer and organizer. She is the eldest daughter of elocutionist Kazi Sabyasachi and granddaughter of Bangladesh National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. She was awarded Nazrul Award 2013 by the Nazrul Institute.

John Thelwall, depicted by John Hazlitt John Thelwall (27 July 1764 – 17 February 1834) was a radical British orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist.Thelwall, John (1764-1834), english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2019.

As a young woman, Helen Morris Lewis gave recitals as an elocutionist in various states, to some critical acclaim, with newspapers noting her "undoubted dramatic talent.""Miss Helen Morris Lewis" Newberry Weekly Herald (July 2, 1879): 3.

Frank H. Pope (March 7, 1854 – January 27, 1927) was an elocutionist and newspaper reporter who served as a State Representative and Massachusetts Auditor from 1914–1915. He served one term as Auditor. He was later the State Commissioner of Small Loans.

Talent-Germania Orchestra; Thomas Henry, cornetist; Wyzeman Marshall, elocutionist; Mrs. E. A. Taylor, soprano; Lotos Glee Club. On 4 December 1896, the New York Times reported: "Wyzeman Marshall, the actor, Dying." He was referred to as a veteran actor and teacher of elocution.

A late bloomer, Elocutionist made his first start on October 13, 1975. The two-year-old's racing debut was a winning one, and he won all four of his ensuing starts that year including the 49th running of the Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes at Chicago's Hawthorne Race Course.

She also had a daughter by elocutionist Vsevolod Aksyonov. In 2003, she won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement. In 2008, the Bolshoi Theatre celebrated Semyonova's centenary. Semyonova died on 9 June 2010 in her home in Moscow, three days before her 102nd birthday.

Due to his political beliefs, Thelwall was persecuted and subsequently exiled from England to Wales, where he wrote The Fairy of the Lake. Thelwall was later able to return to England after a taking up a new career as an elocutionist and practitioner of speech therapy.

Willems was born on 15 November 1962 in Maastricht, the third child of a drama teacher and an elocutionist. Soon afterwards, the family moved to Heerlen. Willems' father died in 1978, age 52, when Jeroen was 15 years old. Willems attended the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Ida M. Bowman Becks (March 28, 1880 – ?), also known as Ida M. Becks, was an American elocutionist, suffragist, and African-American community organizer. She played prominent roles in establishing a number of community organizations, especially in Kansas City, Kansas, from the 1910s to the late 1940s.

He was related to George Charleton Barron, an actor, mimic and elocutionist. Like many of his contemporaries, he appears in Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings with lives, portraits and autographs of the writers, and notes on the songs. Revised Edition. Blackett was refined and well mannered.

Louise Woodworth Foss (1873) Louise Woodworth Foss (1883) Louisa Woodworth Sanborn Foss (April 19, 1841 in Thetford, Vermont - September 22, 1892 in Malden, Massachusetts) was regarded as the best American elocutionist in her day. Compared to Charlotte Cushman, Foss was counted among the first woman elocutionists in the world.

Bred by Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud and foaled at her Versailles, Kentucky farm, Elocutionist was sired by multiple stakes winner Gallant Romeo, a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Gallant Man. He was out of the mare Strictly Speaking, whose sire was the very fast Fleet Nasrullah, a multiple stakes winner who broke two track records. Elocutionist was purchased at the July 1974 Fasig-Tipton yearling sale in Lexington, Kentucky by Gene Cashman, a Chicago native who made a fortune as a commodities trader, which afforded him the opportunity to establish a large Thoroughbred racing stable. At the auction, Cashman and his trainer, Paul Adwell, narrowed their selection to two yearling colts they liked.

They narrowed their selection to two yearling colts they liked but, unable to decide which one to buy, they flipped a coin and were the successful bidder on Elocutionist. By May 1976, the three-year-old Elocutionist had won the important Arkansas Derby and was Adwell and Cashman's first ever starter in the Kentucky Derby. Jockey John Lively rode their colt to a third-place finish in the Derby behind winner Bold Forbes who had been the yearling Adwell and Cashman did not buy at the auction as a result of the coin flip. In the Preakness Stakes, Bold Forbes and Derby runner-up, Honest Pleasure set a torrid pace as they battled for the lead.

"Plays and Players" Brooklyn Life (December 26, 1903): 28. via Newspapers.com After graduating, she was active in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni society, and served on its library committee in 1904, with elocutionist Helena Zachos.Annual Catalogue, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Empire Theatre (1904): 73, 75.

Louisa Sanborn was a native of Thetford, Vermont. She was educated at Thetford Academy, Vermont. She became a teacher and subsequently married Eliphalet J. Foss, the Boston photographer. After a few years of home life, she adopted the profession of an elocutionist, studying with Richard Reeve Baxter of Harvard College.

He finished second, three lengths behind winner Elocutionist. Bold Forbes finished a half length behind Play the Red in third, with Cojak three more lengths back in fourth. The exacta of 4 and 2 paid $347.40. Play the Red took home the 20% runner-up's share of the purse equalling $30,000.

At age three in 1976, Elocutionist began the year with a third and a second in his first two outings, then won three races in a row including the Forerunner Stakes at Keeneland and the April 3 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. His performances earned him entry into the first of the Triple Crown races, a first for his owner, his trainer, and for his jockey, John Lively. The colt ran third in the Kentucky Derby behind winner Bold Forbes, who had been the yearling Cashman and Adwell did not buy at the auction as a result of the coin toss. However, Elocutionist came back to win the Preakness Stakes by three and a half lengths, beating runnerup Play The Red and Bold Forbes, who finished third.

Arthur Morley Francis, his wife Angela and children Richard (Dick) and new born Clement, arrived in Moreton Bay Brisbane on the sailing clipper, Saldanha, with a full passenger list of 500 in February 1862. He was noted on shipboard as an elocutionist. On Sundays he conducted Divine service, which was much appreciated by the immigrants.

In Warminster, Bartholomew was a precocious actor and was reciting and performing from age three.Hoerle, Chapter 2. By age five he was a popular Warminster celebrity, the "boy wonder elocutionist", reciting poems, prose, and selections from various plays, including Shakespeare.Freddie's Warminster appearances included the Palace Cinema and Theatre, and St. John's Church Parish Hall.

Meredith was born in 1890; her mother was an elocutionist in the Chautauqua movement, and one of her grandmothers was an evangelist. Meredith made her own debut on stage with a monologue at age 3. The name Cheerio resulted from her cheerful attitude as a child. As a teenager, Meredith sought to play older characters.

Kazi Sabyasachi (died in ) was a Bengali elocutionist. He was the eldest surviving son of one of the most prolific Bengali poets of the 20th century Kazi Nazrul Islam. Sabyasachi came to fame in the 1960s and '70s as a reciter. In 1966, he became the first to record the recitation of Bidrohi, a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Muriel Lilah Matters (12 November 1877 – 17 November 1969) was an Australian- born suffragist, lecturer, journalist, educator, actress and elocutionist. Based in Britain from 1905 until her death, Matters is best known for her work on behalf of the Women's Freedom League at the height of the militant struggle to enfranchise women in the United Kingdom.

Paterson was an elocutionist and photographer.Thomson (1988) pp. 18 In an Aberdeen Directory of 1882 he was teaching elocution in a studio at No.1, Black's Buildings, near to Schoolhill.Thomson (1988) pp. 35 He appeared at the Music Hall, Aberdeen on 2 October 1897 in aid of the Powis Clock Fund on a bill which included Scott Skinner.

Ida Benfey, from an 1898 publication. Ida Benfey Judd (died February 14, 1952) was an American educator, elocutionist and monologist, billed as "The American Storyteller"."Miss Ida Benfey, The American Storyteller" (brochure, 1900-1910) in Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (University of Iowa Libraries). She founded the Mark Twain Association, and was its first president.

James E. Murdoch James E. Murdoch (January 25, 1811 - May 19, 1893) was an American actor and elocutionist. James Edward Murdoch (sometimes spelled "Murdock") was born in Philadelphia, the eldest of four sons of Thomas and Elizabeth Murdoch. James apprenticed under his father in the business of bookbinding. He served as a volunteer fireman with the Vigilant Company.

Lively began his horse racing career aboard American Quarter Horses at small tracks in his native Oklahoma.Eugene Register-Guard (Oregon) - May 16, 1976 He had been riding for eleven years when he began receiving nationwide attention in 1979 for riding Elocutionist to victory in the Arkansas Derby for trainer Paul Adwell and owner Gene Cashman. Lively guided the colt to a third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby then two weeks later he and Elocutionist defeated both the Derby winner Bold Forbes and the 1975 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Honest Pleasure to win the second leg of the Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 17, 1976 Swelling in Elocutionist's right front leg kept Lively and his horse out of the third leg of the Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes.

She was a prominent member of the A. M. E. Church; also a member of the "King's Daughters," "Human Rights League," and the "Isabella Association." Brown died on September 16, 1949, in Wilberforce, Ohio, and is buried at Massies Creek Cemetery in Cedarville, Ohio. Her biography, Hallie Quinn Brown, Black Woman Elocutionist, 1845(?)-1949, was published by Annjennette Sophie in 1975.

In January 1908, Mary Schloendorff, also known as Mary Gamble—an elocutionist from San Francisco —was admitted to New York Hospital to evaluate and treat a stomach disorder. Some weeks into her stay at the hospital, the house physician diagnosed a fibroid tumor. The visiting physician recommended surgery, which Schloendorff adamantly declined. She consented to an examination under ether anesthesia.

On May 9, Annie Murphy, an elocutionist who, like Cronin, was well known in Irish and Catholic circles, reported that she saw Cronin on a streetcar on Clark Street just after 9 p.m. on May 4. Her father, Thomas Murphy, was an officer at a local Clan na Gael camp. The conductor of the street car corroborated Annie Murphy's claim.

Other musical soloists, chamber groups, or vocal ensembles were sometimes included. The duo was managed by Alonzo Foster's Star Lyceum Bureau. The Mecklems occasionally appeared with Foster’s New York Stars during the 1891-92 season. From 1892 through 1894, the Mecklems and elocutionist Florence Russell performed as the New York Ideal Trio, sometimes billed as the New York Ideal Concert Company.

He was bred and raced by brothers Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, owners of the House of Chanel in Paris. Kotashaan was sired by Darshaan, winner of the 1984 French Derby and the Leading sire in France in 2003. His dam was Haute Authorite, a daughter of the American runner Elocutionist who in 1976 won the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.

In 1958, the filly Indian Maid defeated her male counterparts to win the Hawthorne Juvenile. The race has produced three horses that went on to win the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. Head Play accomplished the feat in 1932–33, Bee Bee Bee in 1971–72, and Elocutionist did it in 1975–76. In each case, the horse won only the Preakness Stakes.

Atwood and Caroline B. Nichols organized the Fadette Ladies' Orchestra, with four pieces. Atwood immediately had the name of her orchestra copyrighted and, renting an office, she put out her "shingle". Finding that prompting was essential to success in dance work, she went to one of Boston's best prompters and learned the business thoroughly. An elocutionist taught her to use her voice to the best advantage.

Osgood with violin Marion G. Osgood was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her father was associated as a teacher with Lowell Mason, and her mother, Mary A. Osgood, was an author and music composer. George L. Osgood, a Boston musician, was her cousin, and her brother was Professor Fletcher Osgood, elocutionist. She began her musical life as a child, coming from a musical and scholarly family.

Jane Elizabeth Conklin (July 7, 1831 – 19 December 1914) was a 19th-century American poet and religious writer from New York. For three years, she served as president of the Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic. She enjoyed a reputation as an elocutionist; and was the author of three volumes of poetry. She was born and died in Utica, New York.

Frank Russell had a reputation as being an elocutionist, and he held professorships in two theological seminaries. He published Juvenile Speaker (New York, 1846), Practical Reader (1853); and, he edited a revised edition of his father's work under the title of Vocal Culture (1882), and he was also the author of Use of the Voice (1882). He was a childhood friend of Louisa May Alcott.

He made a translation of Edmond Rostands Cantecler, although the play was never performed on stage. During this time Couperus started making performances as an elocutionist. His first performance at the art room Kleykamp for an audience of students from Delft was a huge success. The decor consisted of a Buddha and a painting made by Antonio da Correggio that Abraham Bredius had lent for this occasion.

After the war, Beaty returned to Cincinnati and raised his family. His son, A. Lee Beaty, became an Ohio state legislator and an assistant U.S. District Attorney for southern Ohio. He resumed his career as a turner and pursued amateur acting and public speaking engagements. He gave public readings for charitable causes and became a well-known elocutionist among the African American community of Cincinnati.

Margaret Manton Merrill (1859 – June 19/20, 1893) was a British-born American journalist, writer, translator, and elocutionist. At the age of twenty, she became the founder, owner and editor of the Colorado Temperance Gazette. She stayed in journalism for twelve years, where her noted successes were in the line of stories for children, while she likewise made translations from such diverse languages as Scandinavian and Sioux.

James Bernard (11 April 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a reciter, elocutionist, author, Primitive Methodist and Unitarian lay preacher. Bernard was well known for his frequent radio broadcasts of 'character sketches' in the 1920s and early '30s (from early BBC studios; Manchester 2ZY and Savoy Hill in London)UK Newspapers Archive 1710–1953. and as a foremost teacher of 'dramatic interpretation' in the North West of England.Trewin, J.C. (1968).

Certainly by September 1917 the church was advertising for a replacement. He gave a series of free Sunday Grand Organ recitals at the Town Hall in conjunction with elocutionist Clement May in July and August 1912 during the absence of W. R. Knox, who instituted the tradition. From 1915 his public life centred around his and his wife's philanthropic activities. It is likely his sole source of income was private tuition.

Noor is an elocutionist known for his poetry and prose recitation and his oration. He has lent his voice to numerous television shows as a narrator and to advertisements. Noor is the former Vice Chairman at Asiatic Three Sixty and the former Managing Director at Desh Television, but resigned from these posts when assuming his role a Minister. He is also a trustee at the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum.

She was born to a production manager father. Under the supervision of her uncle, Sheridan Corbyn, Warrenton had played child parts and had been and continued to be on stage and in motion pictures for most of her life. Warrenton attended St. Rose's Convent and later studied at the University of Michigan. Following her time at Michigan, Warrenton began her stage career as an elocutionist at the University of Notre Dame.

The 1976 Preakness Stakes was the 101st running of the $200,000 Grade 1 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 15, 1976, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Elocutionist, who was jockeyed by John L. Lively, won the race by three and one half lengths over runner-up Play The Red. Approximate post time was 5:40 p.m.

Besides the talent for story-telling, she was a musician, sang well, and composed settings for her poems. She was also an excellent elocutionist. Her first literary work was Half a Dozen Housekeepers, a serial story which she sent to St. Nicholas. After the death of her husband in 1889, she returned to California to resume her kindergarten work, serving as the head of a Kindergarten Normal School.

Caroline Miskel Scales, who later adopted the professional name Caroline Miskel, was born September 15, 1873, in Covington, Kentucky.Gallery of plays from the Illustrated American, Issues 1-9 by Austin Brereton 1894 Her parents, Christopher Columbus and Mary Menzies Scales, moved to Toronto in 1875. There she became a student of the Canadian elocutionist Jessie Alexander. Over the years, Caroline's father was a merchant, Kentucky state legislator, magazine editor, and inventor.

In 1775 Cockin published The Art of Delivering Written Language; or, An Essay on Reading, dedicated to David Garrick, a work on elocution. In this book Cockin is representative of the 18th-century elocutionary movement, and within elocutionist he is assigned to the "natural school".Jacqueline George, Public Reading and Lyric Pleasure: Eighteenth Century Elocutionary Debates and Poetic Practices, ELH Vol. 76, No. 2 (Summer, 2009), pp. 371–397 at p. 383.

Promotional page for platform performance and list of her performance selections, 1909 Jessie Eldridge Southwick (1865 – 1957) was an American elocutionist, teacher, author and poet. She was active in the Chautauqua and Lyceum movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, performing around the United States as well as internationally. She influenced oratory through active involvement in emerging organizations, writing textbooks and teaching expressive voice culture and platform performance at Emerson College and elsewhere.

In July 1902 Eva Price obtained a bursary at the Maitland High School and in 1903 she attended the Largs Public School near Maitland. She performed in the end-of-year school concerts at these establishments, giving recitations (as reported in the Maitland Daily Mercury). In her late teens Eva Price was familiar to Newcastle audiences as an elocutionist. In 1908 Eva Price played the First Twin in Australia's first production of "Peter Pan".

Pranati Tagore is a renowned and eminent elocutionist, news reader and Bengali actor. She is married to Sunando Tagore, the great-grandson to Satyendranath Tagore.Pragnasundari Debi, granddaughter of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, married the most famous Assam author Sahityarathi Laxminath Bezbarua. She was a literary phenomenon in her own right, her cookbook Aamish O Niramish Ahar (1900, reprinted 1995) was a standard given to every Bengali bride with her trousseau, and earning her the appellation "India's Mrs Beeton".

At the age of sixteen Pearl was writing short stories of her own for Our Young Folks, an illustrated magazine for boys and girls. From an early age she also gave recitals and poetry readings; she was a superb elocutionist with a rich voice. She started on the professional stage in 1875, working at the Park Theatre in productions including Davy Crockett and Mighty Dollar. Later she had seasons at Wallack's Theatre and worked in Dion Boucicault’s company.

In 1895 Bell's father, noted philologist and elocutionist Alexander Melville Bell, who had authored over 45 publications on elocution, the use of visible speech for the deaf and similar related subjects, assigned all his publication copyrights to the Volta Bureau for its financial benefit. Reville, F. Douglas. History of the County of Brant: Illustrated With Fifty Half-Tones Taken From Miniatures And Photographs, Brantford, ON: Brant Historical Society, Hurley Printing, 1920, p.311. Retrieved from Brantford. Library.on.

During the fall and winter of 1909-10 and 1910–11, Crawford joined the H. Ruthven MacDonald Concert Party for five-month tours of the cities and small towns of western Canada. Crawford sang solos and performed duets with baritone MacDonald, while Mrs. MacDonald accompanied on the piano and an elocutionist provided complementary interludes. The company criss-crossed the Prairie Provinces appearing in halls, churches and theatres in communities from Winnipeg, Manitoba,Music and Drama. (1910, November 1).

Several of his scrapbooks, previously considered lost or destroyed, have come to light and are now held by the State Library of Victoria. They reveal the pleasure Neild took in the ignominious downfall suffered by many of the targets of his more malicious criticisms. The scrapbooks also contained critiques of Checkmated, a poorly written roman à clef about Neild's illicit lovelife, written by Mrs. T. P. Hill, well- connected wife of a prominent elocutionist and daughter of South Australian pioneer Dr. George Ayliffe.

He acted not like an amateur, but like the > skilled professional that he is. During his time at Auburn, Heisman also took on more serious roles, and was considered as a refined elocutionist when performing Shakespearean plays or reciting his monologues. The next year, the API Dramatic Club performed A Scrap of Paper by Victorien Sardou. In May 1898, Heisman appeared in Diplomacy, an English adaptation of Dora by Sardou, with the Mordaunt-Block Stock Company at the Herald Square Theater on Broadway.

Emily Climbs picks up exactly where Emily of New Moon left off. Emily is finally given permission to go to Shrewsbury High School to further her education (and, in her own mind, her dream of becoming an author). Her friends Ilse, Perry, and Teddy attend the high school with her. Each of the central foursome has dreams toward which he or she is working: Emily, to be a famous writer, Ilse, an elocutionist, Teddy, an artist, and Perry, a business man and/or politician.

Thomson (1988) pp. 20 On 1 January 1900 Paterson was one of the organisers of New Year Festival celebrating the new century at the Music Hall, under the auspices of the Aberdeen Temperance Society, which included cinematograph work by Lizars.Thomson (1988) pp. 25 In September 1901 he rented the Music Hall for an entire week to present "Madame Llloyd's Grand Music and Scenic Company" a variety show of music, dancing, tableaux vivants, dioramas and cinematographs.Thomson (1988) pp. 28 By 1901 he styled himself as "Elocutionist and Cinematographer".

During this era, many of the top three-year-olds won this race. Your Host, sire of Kelso, won the first running in 1950. He was followed by other notable winners such as Fabius (1956), Iron Liege (1957), Tim Tam (1958), Tomy Lee, (1959), Tompion (1960), Four-and-Twenty (1961), Never Bend (1963), Hill Rise (1964), Ack Ack (1969), Elocutionist (1976), Devil's Bag (1984), and on grass, Izvestia (1990). The race was shifted permanently to the turf in 1989 and set at a distance of miles.

Kathleen married Freeman's Journal and Irish Independent journalist Frank Cruise O'Brien; the contrarian politician and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien was their son. Margaret (born 1879), an elocutionist, actress and playwright, married solicitor Frank Culhane; they had four children; after his death she married her godson, the poet Michael Casey. Sheehy's two sons, Richard and Eugene, were barristers. The writer James Joyce, who lived nearby as a youth, often visited the family home, 2 Belvedere Place, where musical evenings and theatricals took place every Sunday evening.

John Raymond Brew (14 January 1903 – 21 August 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached in the Victorian Football League. Brew grew up in the suburb of West Melbourne where his father Michael was a hotelkeeper. He first attended St Mary's Primary School, West Melbourne before moving to St. Joseph's Christian Brothers' College, North Melbourne where he was a pupil between 1914 and 1920. During his teenage years he performed in numerous school concerts in a variety of roles ranging from elocutionist, piano player and Shakespearean actor.

Many painful experiences came to her, accompanied by the serious and protracted illness of her mother, herself, and lastly of her son, but she persevered in the work of her life's effort and ambition. Her daughter became at the same time a violinist, elocutionist and vocalist of marked skill. Later in life she lived in Wichita with her daughter May Belle Howard (1879-1968) and son Guello/Guy Payne Howard. She died on November 11, 1947, at her home at 1425 Lawrence, Emporia, Kansas, and was buried at Maplewood Cemetery.

He also developed a technique of speaking in clear, modulated tones directly into his mother's forehead wherein she would hear him with reasonable clarity. Bell's preoccupation with his mother's deafness led him to study acoustics. His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists. His father published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are still well known, especially his The Standard Elocutionist (1860), which appeared in Edinburgh in 1868.

The Standard Elocutionist appeared in 168 British editions and sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States alone. In this treatise, his father explains his methods of how to instruct deaf-mutes (as they were then known) to articulate words and read other people's lip movements to decipher meaning. Bell's father taught him and his brothers not only to write Visible Speech but to identify any symbol and its accompanying sound. Bell became so proficient that he became a part of his father's public demonstrations and astounded audiences with his abilities.

The exposure from Smarty Jones subsequent run at the Triple Crown helped increase participation from the top three-year-olds in the country to the point where the American Graded Stakes Committee made the Arkansas Derby a Grade I race in 2010. Past winners of the race have gone on to win legs of horse racing's Grand Slam. Sunny's Halo won the 1983 Kentucky Derby, as did Smarty Jones in 2004 and American Pharoah in 2015. Elocutionist (1976), Tank's Prospect (1985), Pine Bluff (1992), Smarty Jones (2004), Afleet Alex (2005), Curlin (2007), and American Pharoah (2015) all won the Preakness Stakes.

Gene Cashman and three of his brothers were police officers with the Chicago Police Department when he and brother George decided to quit their jobs and go into business for themselves.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 17, 1976 Cashman made a fortune trading in the volatile grain markets of the 1970s. Gene Cashman's wealth allowed him to invest in his passion for horse racing and in 1976 his colt Elocutionist won the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. In 1981, Cashman purchased the Pebble Hill Farm in Florida from Mitchell Wolfson and renamed it September Farm.

Henrietta Vinton Davis (August 25, 1860 – November 23, 1941) was an African- American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator. In addition to being "the premier actor of all nineteenth-century black performers on the dramatic stage", Davis was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be the "greatest woman of the Negro race today". Davis has come to be considered the physical, intellectual, and spiritual link between the abolitionist movement of Frederick Douglass and the African Redemption Movement of the UNIA-ACL and Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. At the first international UNIA convention in 1920, she was elected as International Organizer.

Wellington recommended him to the Primitive Methodist Conference of 1894 for theological training for the Methodist ministry. During his training at Way College he had the benefit of private tuition with elocutionist Edward Reeves, and A. Walmsley as singing coach. He was thus well prepared for the annual elocution contest in the Yatala district, and won the first prize trophy in 1895. After four years' probationary work, Styles resigned his position with the church and returned to business life in the bookkeeping department of John Martin & Co., where both employers and employees were in favour of regulated business hours — "early closing".

In the Preakness Stakes Bold Forbes again took an early lead and set an exceptionally fast pace, but after a prolonged battle with Honest Pleasure, both horses tired in the final stages and were beaten by Elocutionist, with Bold Forbes finishing third. In the Belmont Stakes, Bold Forbes again led from the start and won by a neck from McKenzie Bridge with Great Contractor a further neck away in third. At the end of the year, Bold Forbes was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse. He lost Horse of the Year honors to six-year-old champion Forego.

Joan Imogen Howard, was born in Boston in 1848, though both 1850 and 1851 have also been mentioned. Her father, Edwin Frederick Howard, was a well-known citizen of that city, and her mother, Joan Louise Turpin Howard, was a native of New York. She had one sister, Adeline Turpin Howard, the principal of the Wormley School, Washington, D. C., and one brother, Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard, M. D., the first African American graduate of Harvard Medical School, and a prominent physician in Philadelphia. She was a cousin of the well-known elocutionist, Ednorah Nahar.

Recitation was a "big, well-made" bay horse with a white blaze and two white socks bred in Ohio by Marvin Warner Sr. He was from the first crop of foals sired by the 1976 Preakness Stakes winner Elocutionist. Recitation's dam Irish Party won nine races and became a successful broodmare: her other descendants include the Breeders' Cup Classic winner Volponi. As a yearling, the colt was offered for sale and bought for $35,000. He entered the ownership of Mr A. Bodie and was sent to Europe where he was trained by Guy Harwood at Pulborough in West Sussex.

William Russell (born Glasgow, Scotland, 28 April 1798; died Lancaster, Massachusetts, 17 May 1873) was an educator and elocutionist. He was formally educated in the Latin school and in the university of Glasgow; and, he came to the US in 1819, wherein that year, he took charge of Chatham Academy in Savannah, Georgia. He moved to New Haven, Connecticut, a few years later, and there he taught in the New Township Academy and also in the Hopkins Grammar School. He then devoted himself to the instruction of classes in elocution in Andover, Harvard, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Abercrombie first came to the Keeneland Yearling Sale with her father in 1949, and in 1952 they built Pin Oak Farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. Their early success included graded stakes winners such as Make A Play, Roman Patrol and Elocutionist. By 1987, Ms. Abercrombie had purchased a new Pin Oak Farm not far from the original one, and she established a thoroughbred breeding operation with sires such as Sky Classic, Peaks and Valleys, Maria's Mon and Broken Vow. In 1995 the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association recognized Pin Oak Stud as the state and national Thoroughbred Breeder of the Year.

Pearl E. Doles was born to George W. Doles and Lettie Doles in St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 2, 1883."United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (5 August 2014), Missouri > Buchanan > ED 49 Washington Township St. Joseph city Ward 2 > image 8 of 19; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). At the age of 12, Doles "went upon the stage as an elocutionist," according to the Exhibitors Herald, touring the country. She began her writing career at age 12 or 13, publishing poems in a St. Joseph newspaper.

The station became 5 Don N and later 5DN. The station became increasingly popular and went from broadcasting for a few hours per day to continuous broadcasting. Including broadcasting from their home, the family broadcast from the Elder Conservatorium of Music and the University of Adelaide. Hume was one of the world's first female announcers and programme directors;Nancy Robinson Whittle, 'Hume, Stella Leonora Harriette (1882–1954)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 4 May 2014 she used the name Miss Leonora Starr as announcer of an elocutionist programme and the name Auntie Stella, for children's programming.

Bold Forbes had raced mostly in Puerto Rico as a two-year-old but challenged Honest Pleasure at three. Honest Pleasure won the Flamingo Stakes by 11 lengths in February, and went on to win the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes as the favorite. In the Kentucky Derby Jolley had Honest Pleasure sit off the pace and but he made his move too late and was beaten to the wire by Bold Forbes. In the Preakness, Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes went to the lead and dueled through 6 furlongs in 1:09, only to lose to Elocutionist, with Honest Pleasure placing a poor fifth.

Left of Six Hundred : an account of the Charge of the Light Cavalry at Balaclava, W. H. Pennington (1887) - Royal Collection Trust The 1901 Census records him as an 'Actor and Elocutionist' living with his son Harold and daughter Louisa,1901 England Census for William H Pennington: London, Stoke Newington - Ancestry.com while that for 1911 lists him as a 'Tragedian (Retired)' living in Tottenham still with his son and daughter.1911 England Census for William Henry Pennington: Middlesex, Tottenham, East Tottenham - Ancestry.com On 25 October 1913 he was among six survivors of the Charge to attend the 'Balaclava Dinner' to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava, 25 October 1913.

Bell was born in London, the daughter of Maria Dalton Dauncey, a dramatic elocutionist and voice teacher (died 1917), and James Henry Maskell (1824–1897), a sometime theatrical agent and merchant. She was coached in acting by her mother and attended the London Academy of Music, studying music with Francesco Schira. In 1870, as an amateur, she appeared at the Royal Strand Theatre as Gertrude in a production of James Planché's Loan of a Lover. From this early period until 1883, Bell appeared as Laura Joyce in London in a comic opera titled Mina and played the Count of Flanders in Cupid 'Mid the Roses and The Ring and the Keeper by John Pratt Wooler.

However, by this time he had become an institution, a beloved and revered personality who was a courteous and friendly gentleman. His philanthropic activities included running a homeopathic hospital in memory of his late father in their native village in Baharu, in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. He continued to feature regularly on All India Radio, Doordarshan (TV) and live programmes/concerts during this period. In a television interview, recorded in the early 1990s, to noted elocutionist Gauri Ghosh, his wife Bela Mukherjee recalled that she never knew during his lifetime the number of families and persons he helped to put up financially or otherwise; it was only after his departure that this truth gradually unveiled.

He ran a school in Capel Street, Dublin in the 1720s, whose pupils included children of many prominent families such as Anthony Foster, the future Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and Philip Tisdall, the future Attorney General for Ireland. He was the father of Thomas Sheridan, a celebrated actor and elocutionist, who was in his turn the father of the celebrated playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan; he had two other sons and one daughter. In 1725 he was appointed a royal chaplain, but preached a sermon which was considered by some to be politically suspect, and his appointment was cancelled. In compensation he was given a living at Drumlane in Cavan and in 1735 became headmaster of the Cavan Royal School where he remained for three years.

He started his career in theatrical management when he piloted the opera-singers Eugenio Bianchi and wife Giovanna di Casali da Campagna, around South Australia in early 1861. When the French violinist Horace Poussard and cellist (Louis) Rèné (Paul) Douay arrived in Melbourne he featured them on the cover of the Illustrated Melbourne Post and though their concert party (which included Edward Armes Beaumont), met the local soprano, and his future 'wife', Amelia Elizabeth Bailey. In 1862 he was engaged as agent for Poussard, Douay and Bailey whom he then piloted around South Australia before the party broke up under legal action centring on a contract dispute between Poussard and Smythe. By this time he had resigned from his editorship and formed a new concert company consisting of pianist, James Marquis Chisholm, Scots elocutionist, Margaret Edith Aitken and Miss Bailey.

George Vandenhoff (18 February 1820 - June 15, 1885) was an English actor and elocutionist who performed in Britain and the United States. He was born in 1820 in England, a son of the well-known English actor John Vandenhoff. He debuted in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife at the Covent Garden Theatre on 14 October 1839. He came to the United States in 1842, debuting in a performance as Hamlet, and appeared in productions in New York. In 1846, he gave the "Opening Address" at the new Howard Athenaeum in Boston. Vandenhoff married American actress Mary E. Makeah in Boston in 1855. After leaving acting, he began practicing as a lawyer (in which profession he had previously been trained) by 1858.George Vandenhoff, Strangers to us All: Lawyers and Poetry, Retrieved 1 March 2017 He also authored books about performing and reading in public.

In 1908, the couple moved to Kansas City, Kansas. Becks worked for two years as the field representative for the Florence Crittenton Home in Topeka, Kansas. She then became the field representative for the National Training School in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the Women’s Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention. Becks was also a nationally-known elocutionist and an “ardent suffragist.” She trained at the Chicago School of Elocution and spoke publicly at Chautauqua schools and other public events. Becks wrote a play entitled Up From Slavery: Evening's Entertainment in 8 Acts, which she copyrighted in 1916. In 1919, she spoke at a memorial service for Theodore Roosevelt at Second Baptist Church in Kansas City (where Becks and her husband were members), discussing Roosevelt’s views on women's suffrage. In the same year, Becks led a debate about women’s suffrage at Ebenezer AME Church.

Initially David Bell's voice couldn't be heard distinctly as "...all kinds and sizes of wire were used in stringing from the house to Mount Pleasant road." However, the Dominion Telegraph manager, Walter Griffin, decided to attach the wire to a telegraph battery to see if it would improve the transmission, which it did, and then "the voices then came in distinctly." David's son Charles James Bell (Dublin, 12 April 1858 – 1 October 1929) would marry Roberta Wolcott Hubbard (4 June 1859 – 4 July 1885), and then Grace Blatchford Hubbard (9 October 1861 – 16 July 1948), sisters of Mabel Hubbard (Alexander Graham Bell's wife), and become President of the American Security and Trust Company in the Washington, D.C. area. David Charles wrote several works on elocution and speech, and in 1878 also co-authored Bell's Standard Elocutionist: Principles and Exercises along with his brother Melville.