Percy Jewett Burrell
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 110 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5086-7621-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Percy Jewett Burrell ((1877-02-10)February 10, 1877 – March 22, 1964(1964-03-22)) was an American author and director of historical and civic pageants. Known for his skills in oratory and elocution, he also taught public speaking and drama, and was known as a "public reciter". A native and lifelong resident of the greater Boston area, he was described by Time magazine as a "professional director of civic and patriotic shows". By the mid-1920s, Burrell had developed a nationwide reputation for his work, having had 75,000 participants in his productions, which had collectively been performed in front of over 900,000 people. According to a printed program used at a service in his memory, "His mastery of the spoken and written word led him to be a well known public speaker with an enviable reputation as a teacher of oratory, and later as an author and director of national distinction". Burrell served as the sixth supreme (national) president of...