The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29
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riyperion Theater.
WILLIAM H. CRANE APPEARS TO-
 NIGHT.

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 ! David Harum," which has had such ! a great run as a book, is to be seen in | play at the Hyperion to-day, matinee | and night. The rights of the play are l the property of Charles Frohman. Its principal actor is the well known come dian William H. Crane, and his success I in it is of the most pronounced order. l Of course this was to be expected for
 if ever an actor seemed to be fitted by | nature to impersonate Westcotts shrewd old hero that actor is Crane. | The play had upwards of two hundred presentations in New York last season, and has been doing on the road. in the
 atrical parlance, a record d-breaking bus mess The play is in three acts and was transplanted from the book to the stage by R. and M. W. Hitchcock. It | is said that but few liberties were taken in the work of dramatization, the main
 one being the bringing of Mary Blake to
 Bonneville so that she might be near John Lenox, the cashier of Harum's bank. Nearly all of the familiar sayings,
 quaint philosophy and amusing incl
 dents of the story are in the play. One
 of the best things in the book and one
 of the best things in the play is the
 horse trade, which takes place in the
 opening act The second act, which is
 laid in Harum's bank, shows the old
 chap as a business man This act con
 tains the incident of the counterfeit
 five-dollar bills, the tussle with Bill
 Montaig, the village tough, and the se-
 curing of the mortgages on the Widow
 Cullom's home. The last act Is laid in
 Aunt Polly's sitting room on Christmas and in it Harum tells the story of his
 visit to the circus. The engagement of Mary Blake and John LenoX follows, and the Christmas dinner, at which Da-
 vd opens that famous bottle of cham pagne, brings the play to an end. The comedy promises to be the most sue cessful work before the public tbis sea- son. It has had a six-weeks' engage ment in Chicago and one of two months in Boston, and in both cities it broke all existing records in the matter of at tendance
 Seats now on sale Prices $15o $t and 75 cents.
 A newspaper representative, in con- | persaton with Clay Clement the au- thor of I'm from Missouri which is to appear next Monday and Tuesday | nights at the Hyperion, was asked if it l was not very delicate opera ton to di- | rect a play in which so many promi- nent artists took part. The author re- piled that this company wRs the most 1 tractable and easily directed of any company that he had ever attempted | to guide through the difficulties of any | new production. Your true artist is i always anxious and willing to receive | every suggestion which intelligenty | bears upon his part; he is invariably in [ dustrious and not afraid to act al re- hearsals He docs not take offense cas- | fly because he is sure of his position and confident of his ability. It Is only ! the cheap fellow who has become deli cate from wandering in sylvan path ways who takes offense at suggestions l. He is apt to retort, when you ask him to act at rehearsals, that he is not in the habit of acting unless there is an audience present. when in reality he has spent most of his life attempting to act to empty benches.
 We believe MT. Clement speaks from experience, as we may take it for grant ed that he has directed many compa- nies in which the incompetent was not absent. and the names of this company give assurance that he has at least been associated in this case with one of ster- ling merit, as Is evidenced by the fol- lowing names: l., R. Stockwell, E. J. Radcliff Theodore Hamilton, Burt Ha-N verly, w. J. Ferguson, Miss Emily Rlgl, Miss Alma Kruger, with a number of others Seats now on sale. Prices Sl50, s1 and 75 cents.