The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19
Special to The Globe.

Special to The GLOBE.
NEW YORK, April 18.-The newest
thing in metropolitan attractions is
the production of an original comedy
at the Madison Square theater by
George H. ~Broadhurst, the well-known
author of What Happened to Jones"
and author of the present laughing
success, Nancy Brown" now running
at the Bijou.
Mr.. B~roadhurst's new play. is called
"a Fool and His Money" The comedy
deals with contemporaneous life in
New York, three acts taking place in
this city and one on the links of a
nearby country club. The cast COM
prises Jameson Lee Finney, Arnold
DAILY, Sidney Herbert, Earle Browne,
Harry Gibbs, Robert Robertson, Anita
Bridger, Mabel Dixey, Brandon Doug
las, Helen Mar Wilcox, Harriet Hurst,
May Vokes and Mrs. E. A. Eberle.
The production is elaborate and it
seems likely that "a Fool and His
Money" may strike a popular chord.
1.-THE S~tarbucks."
1.-THE S~tarbucks' was produced at
the historic Daily theater on April 10.
1t is the work of Opie Read, novelist,
pay WiiShI anu nulllOi I'd oOOlIlSIU-
er by birth and a Westerner by adop-
tor. 1t is not taken from a book, the
procedure having been reversed in that
a book has been spun out of the play.
Mr.. Read has relied for success
largely upon his dialogue and charac-
ter drawing. In a cast of fourteen
there are but three Northerners, the
others being residents of a mountain
Gus spot in Tennessee a long way from
railroads and where the people are
quite primitive now as they ever were.
These characters are real characters
as Mr.. Read found them on trips from
his native city of Nashville-guileless
but fearless, delightfully."- ignorant of
theatricalism, quaint and original in
manne of thought, frequently witty
and more often eloquently figurative in
speech.
In this gallery of characters the
prominent mes are Jasper Starbuck
(played by Theodore Roberts,; Jas
per's wife and daughter, Lou; two aged
negro servants, Kintchin and a black
nanny" Jasper's nephew, a noun
tain preacher; two %neighbors, Nose
Blake and Laz Spencer; Mrs. Mayfield,
a Northern widow, and her nephew,
Tom Elliott; Judge Elliott, Toms faith
er and the federal district judge at
Nashville; Lie Peters, hereditary foe
of the Starbuck family.
Story of Starbuck.
Jasper Starbuck makes "m%oonshine"
whisky, for private consumption and
not for sale. The neighbors know that
he grinds -corn-and ~boils it but keep
the fact to themselves through friend
ship for him and through an ancient
prejudice against revenue collectors.
Peters alone is hostile and hostile COM
mercially. One of his ancestors has
been killed by a Starbuck and he seeks
to settle the family account, first by
asking for the hand of Lou Starbuck
Ga prospective heiress in a modest
way) and then by demanding $1,000
openly. To make his position more for
midable he applies for a deputy United
States marshals commission and gets
1t before he attempts blackmail for the
last time. Starbuck defies him and is
arrested as a "moonshiner."
The last act is in the chamber of the
federal judge at Nashville where Jas
per, in private hearing, is dismissed
after making a singular plea. The
judge, the marshal and Starbuck are
Civil war veterans. In the way Of
making Jasper's dismissal logical the
author points out that Starbuck's To-
cality was strongly Union" and fur