Chambers Street Theatre Archives

Today hear Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth" from "Mark Twain's Notebooks," Edited by Carlo DeVito.   This Advice was written in 1882 and is stated as "1882 Speech."  It does not say if it was delivered, but it was written in 1882.  Listen in and decide if it was deliverable to youth.   Of course we are talking about deliverable to youth open to a bit of humor. 

And off we go to the Chicago banquet given by the army of Tennessee for U.S. Grant in 1879.  The toast was given by Mark Twain on the topic of "Babies."  All this is in "Mark Twain's Notebooks" edited by Carlo Devito.

Today the Radio said it will be 103 degrees outside in Davis.  So now is the time for "The Christmas Pudding."  I wrote this story and I like reading it in the Summer when we need all the cooling effects we can get.  Tune in and listen to the building of a Pudding, and the joy shared in a mining camp during the 1800's Gold Rush in California.

And here we are in the Summertime at 107 degrees and so on into dehydration. Opened the show with the Yolo Mambo band recentlty of the Davis Music Fest.  And the song selected was "Summertime."  See how the Summertime theme just trucks right along?  The reading today is from the "Mark Twain's Notebooks."  Twain wrote books, scrapbooks, and notebooks (and probably something else, too).  

So we hear shorter selections and even short selections.  Listen for the different styles of writing used by Twain.  He was a newspaper reporter with facts, he was the off the wall humor guy, and he later was an older man grateful for his amazing life.  Let's listen to some fine writing by Twain.  There are some jewels in the Notebooks.  Let's not miss them.