Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-09
AMUSEM ENTS.
Stetson's "UncIe Toms Cabin" Com.
PAW This Afternoon and Eveninu,

As Il play. none of native make has
been more forccfully dramatic or has
more deity combined the elements
which appeal to the emotions than this
story of Ante Bcllum times and which
undoubtedly largely contributed to the
emancipation Of the oppressed race. III
the South. MANY arc they who have
seen the darkey learning to read the
great Book by the light of the pine
knot, for no book of the earlier days So
awakened Il thirst for book lore as did
the Bible and acted as a Divine step
ping stone to learning.
In every hamlet and city Of America
"tnCle Toms Cabin" is the single play
millions Of Americans have seen. for
the gifted authoress penncd her story
with such vividncss and pathos that
reading of it was insufficient to those
whose :ympathics become interviewer
with its characters. Yet, notwith-
standing its frequent presentations
but Few have seen it played with any
prctcntion To proper stage effect. 1t
is Il bold and cntcrprsing managerial
stroke that combined for the interpre-
tation of this famous old play a cast
that includes Edward Espy, the great
aged darkey dellneator as Uncle Tom;
Orrin Lewis as Legree; j. +. Kane as
Phincas Fletcher: David Boyer as
Mark No. l. a part he has played 1000
times: VIM. Reap well-known and
Wcll-liked vaudevillian as Marks No.
>; r. II. Booth as George Harris; II
II. Billings as St. Clair; Freddie Book
Dol q
Ophelia Il role she has made famous;
Nola Mason as Mrs. st. Clair; Emma
Glasby as the great black-face i'm
p"rsonator as Topsey No. 1, and Al
berta Lewis as Topsey No. ,. Little
BABY Reland the most famous and best
liked Eva on the stage, will assume the
role Of the angelic child.
Every trick of realism possible, with
improved up-to-dale stage methods,
will be employed There will be
bloodhounds. horses, ponies, donkeys
darkies. Eva'S carriage drawn by
pretty Shetlands: the old OK cart and
cotton wagon with its weary old horses
and dilapidatcd harness; all the life
and movement attendant upon the ar
rival of a Mississippi Side-wheelcr; the
-barbaric 2astimes Of cotton field
and lcvcc. and the actual realistic slave
mart and whipping post. There will
be over so people on the stage and the
old folklore songs of the South will be
sung with uI-to-date methods.
The final transformation scene. de-
pcting the evolution of the black man
from barDrriSm through slavery to
civilization, by the right of freedom;
and the death scene Of Eva and her
transition to Heaven will alone involve
no less than twenty-five changes Of
scenery. The street parade. given by
the Stctson Company at noon. has
never been eQuallcd in novelty and at
tractiVcnesS. Whether "tnclc Toms
Cabin misrc! rescntS the good people
below the Mason and Dixon line or not
the SumptuouS manner in which Man
ag"r Washhurn has mounted the play
is said to rivct attention everywhere
This great production Will be at the
Opera House this afternoon and even
ing, the special matinee beginning al
$50 in order to give the school chill
drcn an opportunity.
Matinee prices, l. and y cents
evening prices -. - and 80 cents.