Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-08
THIS Cru Ell WORLD!
The Click Comedy Company Gets
The Marble Heart.
The Theatrical Company Which started
Out from Plymouth Goes Under at
AT Lacon, III. for Lack Of Funds.


than one, and extremely frosty IN all
senses
We live in a cold and SOrdid age.
when the great mass OF the general
public do not care so much for the
muses-tor poetry, music and art, for
instance as they do for the CLINT and
glitter of the "plunk' which goes to
represent the object of those same
muses. efforts. Many poet who held
within his breast spark of the true
fire from the altar Of the gods, has
starved to death in his attic: many an
ambitious painter of landscapes and
ruined ivy-clad castles and m0onlit
waters. is perforce earning his livell-
mood by informing the great world IN
barn-ro0f symphonies of black and
yellow that "Hood's cures Many
and many the life story that possesses
at once the deepest tragedy and the
most r0lllcking comedy. so closely in
tertwined and woven together in the
Woof that it is difficult TO tell which is
which-where TO laugh and where to
sympathize.
An instance of the truth Of tais may
/ be found in the story which is told
briefly in the telegraph columns of the
Chicago papers. The tory, too. will
be Of especial interest 20 our readers
because of the fac that its preface and
its opening chapter were of and with
and from us their plo,, in fact, lald in
this city.
The telegram in question is from
lines of the disastrous close of the
season of the Click Comedy Company.
Their effects were attached after the
nights performance there upon a debt
owed to w. Ii. Hagerty, of Engle-
wood, Ills.
The Click Comedy Company was re-
ally good combination iii its class,
and presented a line of plays which
were much above the average as 10
their merit. The company included
several members who were residents
of Plymouth, and the show was organ.
lied here. The leading spirits in the
enterprise were Harry I. Click and
his wife. They are professionals of
considerable ability, but their previous
effort had bumped up against the fres-
coed ceiling and they were on the
search for new worlds to conquer.
They thought of Plymouth; they
came, saw and located temporarily
here Then they set about to organize
a new company to travel here. Head
ing the role was Miss Blanche Belevllle,
"a pretty soubrette and a professional
thespian. Three men who were on the
INDEPENDENT stan enrolled themselves
upon the company's list. One of these
was Charles 5 Boyer, who made an
immediate success as principal CON.
edian- success which he unquestlon-
ably deserved. lie is q brother of
Nathan and Benton Boyer, both nov
employed at the Novelty works.
Another Plymouth member was Ilar-
ry Gensler, who left his position as
foreman at this Office to become com.
pany baggagemaD and master of prop.
critics. Billy IIplbin, composition OF
ability, went out as advance agent for
the troupe.
So the company of dozen people
was finally recruited and after a series
OF rehearsals here, the first nights reg.
ular performance was given at the
Centennial opera house on Nov. =
two short months ago-in "The In.
ventor." 1t was well done, but the
organization had no money behind II
higly essential preliminary feature IN
these degenerate days. In fact, we
were credibly informed that its pro
motor was compelled to pawn his
watch to gentleman of this place for
30 to assist in getting the company to
Kewanna its second stopping place.
So for two months the travels of the
connpaiy mas ocoh q hoiNy StiusSV
against heavy odds to brace storm
which seemed to have no bright spots.
1t was daily round of dodging lot
of impertinent creditors who were un-
kind enough to keep coming around
with bills which had become worn and
frayed around the edges 10y continual
unrolling and fruitless rolling up again.
The story had to have its climax, as
all stories do, and this one ended in
just two months from the date of its
inception. The little somnolent village
of Lacon, H., was the scene of the sad