The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-09
ADJUSTMENTS,

The amusement season has commenced in
earnest, and from appearances we are not going
to suffer from any lack Of amusement Among
the best and most pleasing entertainments that
has yet BEEN billed for Canton, is "The Gentle.
man from Nevada" which will show in the
Opera House. Tuesday evening Sept. 14.h. This
play was first introduced In the Boston Museum,
where 1t had a most successful run for some four
weeks, when it opened up in the Fifth Avenue
Theater, The play is entirely new, being one IL.
Illustrative Of life in the far West, and Mr. Polk
having achieved a metropolitan success of 1t can
not fail to draw a good house in Canton. Read
what the Boston Daily advertiser Of April 10, 1880,
says OF Il:
"A GENTLEMAN FROM NLvADA.-Mr. George H.
Jessop's Gentleman from Nevada" was per.
formed at the Museum last night for the first
time on any stage. II should be said at once that
Mr., JessOps piece is manifestly funny. An Eng.
lish nobleman accompanying his sister, is mur.
dered at Rye Patch Nevada, a station on the Pa
cihc Railroad, by rough and gambler who was
brought up at Eton and who hates the British ar
istocracy; afterward, and indeed before the muir.
der, the sister is befrlended by ohivalrous mi
ner, Mr.. Christopher Columbus Gall; the rough
and gambler turns up three years later In Eng.
land as an enormously rich stock broker In good
society, anxious to marry the sister Of the man
he murdered and possessed OF terrible hold up
on the honor of the family which he means to
enter The Chivalrous miner then makes his ap
pearance in the shape of bonanza millionaire,
folls the villain in all his schemes, and finally
marries the beautiful Lady Alice himself. The
general style and scope Of the play may be guess
ed from what has been said As whole the
piece shows art and there are many neat and
original things in its plot, notably the business
connected with the loCket. The dialogue is sell
dom without certain smoothness; Of humorous
touches 1t shows a score or two "a Gentleman
from Nevada" has vivacity and bOnhOmnlie
which seem well designed to hit the popular
taste, and which may often be found irresistible
even by the fastldious. lis incidents are numer
GUS and varied, and Mr. Christopher Columbus
Gall brighlens and WHITES everything and every.
body about him by his freshness, his manliness
and his high spirits Mr.. Calls nature has been
already indicated and can be almost minutelv
described as a combination of George Washing
ton Phipps of "The Bankers Daughter" and Kit
Redding, the Arkansas traveller, in about equal
proportions He is as business.like as the former,
as chivalrous and tender as the latter; he shares
the formers views Of art, the latters opinions Of
human nature. His tongue runs like Nj .Phipp5s,
his eye and hand are as quick as Kit Redding's.
How well he can play such character he has
already shown in "The Bankers Daughter The
touches Of pathos and passion IN this assumption
are good and sincere; while the humorous por.
tions are not SO much interpreted as filled full Of
the actors own quaint, nimbe and untiring hu.
mor,-with his own vital personality, in short
Mr.. Polk will, we think, do we'll with "A Gentle
man from Nevada he certainly succeeded last
night, for the delight ofthe audience was unmiS.
taxable"