The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-29

was for many years with Charles Hoy
and created several of the best character:
in Hoyt's farces. All his life Mr.. Richard:
has been playing a line of character COM
edy known professionally as 'rube" parts
These are rural characters. Such portray
ais are the direct opposite of the real Mr.
Richards. who is a man of refinement. ii
laughingly declares that 1t has become
much more difficult for him to talk off tins
stage than on. for he has SO long been as
Stunning a country twang that he has, to
guard his tongue to keep from lapsihg
into the dialect In private conversation.
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When good old Peter Stuyvesant was
Governor of New Amsterdam. he used to
stump around merrily on n wooden leg
active as the most athletic youth in the
Province. He would go to dances and
cavort Oh the floor as merrily as any of
the young people; He never let his wooden
years age, when William H.. Crane was
about to produce a play based on the adj
ventures of Peter Stuyvesant. he prac-
ticed walking on a wooden Les during the
summertime, wishing to make the cnar-
acter as historically correct as possible.
Crane discovered that the wooden leg
tremity close up to his body, and that
the strapping up gave him eXcruciatlng
pains. The play was a failure. and so Mr..
Crane was spared the necessity OF prae,
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was produced in Chicago. William Norris;
who first essayed the character, was faced
with the same problem; an
cloak. letting the supposed wooden leg
hang naturally at the knee and wearing
a sword at such an angle that the good
reason why the Burgomaster In the opera
always wears a long cloak. Every man
who plays the part finds that he has
trouble in dancing with the wooden leg.
Henry E Dixie has given up the effort
to make Facing the Music" go on the
road. He closed last week. and is reported
to be in New York in rather poor health.
This piece was brought out last summer in
New York and enjoyed a prosperous stay
ut the Garrick Theater.
Broadhurst and Currie nave secured the
rights TO produce a musical comedy called
Buster Brown taken after the popular
cartoons of his series. Little Gabriel, the
Wills. will have the star part. Gabriel is
well know to patrons of the vaudeville.
Tha life of Edgar Allen Poe. drama
tized by George Hazelton in a play called
THE Raven is soon to be produced by
Maurice Campbell. The cast will be head
ed by Frederick Lewis.
CURRENT PI.AYBILLS.
AT the Olympic Monday night Mary Manner
ing will appear in The Stubbornness OF Gera!-
dine written especially for her by Clyde
+ itch. The keynote OF the play and Of the
stuhbcrnness OF the heroine. lies in one utter
ance Of hers in the third act: NO woman can
the only one who should be able to destroy
that faith is the man she loves The story
deals with an American gill. who. at an early
age; Is left an orphan In the care Of a careless
uncle. She AZ sent to Germany to be cdu-
Gated and upon her return TO America, is fol-
lowed By a Hungarian n%oblcman, the repnia-
ton OF whose dissipated brother Is confused
with his own. Many complications ensue. but
thanks to the stubbornness OF the heroine. true
love runs smooth at last.
In Mis- MannerinG's support are Arthur by.