The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
FACTS ABOUT 1.-THE CLANsMAN."
Story Of the Play and names Of The
Principal Actors.

"The Clansman'', announced to az
pear at the Tupelo Opera House on
October, 26th is the most remarkah,3
play on the American stage. Foul.t |
on the famous novels, 1.-The Leopard
Spots" and THE Clansman" it was
first produced in the Old Dominion State
September 90, 1905. Immediately there
after it started on a whirlwind tour OF
the South in which all records were
broken for attendance and for contro-
versy and discussion provoked. Other
companies were Don organized and
these produced the play with equal sue
cess in the large cities of the North.
The C%lansman" is the first dramat.
ic presentment of the terrible Recon
struction period of Southern history.
As a truthful depictment of the Ku
overwhelming endorsement of the mas
ses of the people and of many eminent
statesmen, Including the governors of
several of the States. The scenes are
laid in the ni%ll-conntry of South Caro-
lima in 1867, when white civilization
was in danger of being overthrow by
the carpetbaggers and their dupes, the
ignorant negroes, Southern chivarly
and manhood comes to the front in the
person of Ben Cameron, a leader OF. Ae
Ku Klux Khan. This gallant youth is IN
love with the daughter of a Northern
fanatic, but be will not sacrifice his
PRINCIPLES to win her love. L., H., nc
tears down the "Social EquaiJy'' proc
lamation which the commanding gen.
eral of the district has ordered placafd-
ed The Northern party try to sell out
the Cameron homestead for fraudulent
taxes but Elsie Stoneman, Ben's sweet.
heart, buys it in. At last the critical
moment arrives for the assemblage and
work of the Ku Klux Khan. They gath
err at midnight in a mountain cave To
perform their awful ritual and execute
the solemn functions OF d High Court
of Justice. Ben, their leader, is arrest
ed by the carpetbag government and
sentenced to death. Elsie, his sweet
heart. is promised his life if she will al
ly herself with the mulatto Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina. She faints
at the odlouS proposal, and her father,
learning that his protege has thus a.
bused his confidence, denounces the mu-
iatto. At the end of the play and in the
nick OF time the Ku KluX enter. They
have rescued Ben from the clutches of
the farcical court-martial, and led by
him they level their revolvers at the
v~illlanous Lieutenant-Governor making
HIM their prisoner and freeing Elsie
Stoneman who falls into her lovers
arms. Aside from its s~tlikingly original
plot, The Clansman" has been praised
fo> the beauty of its Southern scene
its extensive portrait gallery of white
and neer, types, and It's daring embodi-
msnt or the famous Ku Klux as flesh
and blood horsemen mounted on trained
cavalry horses and riding across stage
at full gallop to the rescue of the Cam
erons The play is interpreted by the
original company from New York and
Chicago, intending such sterling actors
as Arthur DeVov, Evelyn Faber, Abner
H. SIMMONS, Edward B. McGuinness,
M. A. Carpenter. Irving l. Quimby,
Joseph r Carry, John F Carleton. VII
liam Lewis, Jas. r Lorraine. Jas. O
Sanders, Willard Tracy Flanaghan,
Georgia Lester Woods and Jessamine
Woods.