The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
."The Man Who
Came Back"
The Cast.

Gibson ................. Lewis Case
Gr1ggs .............. Frank Howson
Sam Shew Sing -. W. H. Pendagest
Binksie ............. George Howard
First Observation-Disclosures room In
the home Of Thomas Potter, New York.
Second Unsatisfactory OF the
Breakers, San Francisco. Six months
later
Third Episode-sam shew Sings
opium Joint, near Shanghai Five
months later.
Fourth Episode-Henry Potter's Pin.
cry. near Honolulu. One year later.
Fifth Episode-Same as First Epi-
sode. Seven months later.
Some self-wise sporting man has
said. They never come back Once
ring fighter, booze" fighter or a
dope" is down, he stays down. There
was once young man. who was
brought up with every luxury until he
was Of age, and then. for being weak.
was turned out to make his own way.
He went down and down. until at last
he ended up in a Chinese opium den IN
Shanghai There he met girl who
was almost as low as he was, but they
joined hands there in that hole Of sin
and turned their faces toward the light
and came back every step Of the way
TO the door of the young mans house,
together This is not singular case,
notwithstanding the say-so Of the
sporting man: and SO Jules Eckert
Goodman wroto a play about II and
the play was given to the Keokuk pub.
lie at the Grand last evening. Those
who saw it may absorb a powerful les.
son of devotion and love
The Man Who Came Back" Is
strong meat. and in one or two, instan-
ces is rather Creepy. 1t centers
around the son who. petted in his early
youth and given all the money by his
father that he wanted. finally brought
the situation to point where the elder
Potter practically disowned the son
until he could return home with an
honestly made dollar in his hand
From the opening act representing
1.-THE Potter home in New York, the
scene shifted in the second act to San
Francisco where young Potter, continu.
ing to lead his reckless and carefree
life. met Marcelle the cabaret singer,
whose innocence and devotion to the
vayward youth. was plainly shown.
Then FIVE months later the third act
took the audience to the Invest opium
Joint in Shanghai. Dissipation finally
brought the millionaire's son to the
place where he found the girl who had
followed him from Frisco and there
the two again met. this time on equal
footing, for the girl had become addict
ed to the use Of the drug. In the mean
time detectives hired by the father
had been following young Potter but
he never knew until the final act that
he had been Swallowed. 1t was at this
stage that the realization Of his folly
and worthlessness finally daWned upon
Young Potter. To save the girl and
himself. the youth threw aside his life
of dissipation as shown In the fourth
act, farm scene In Honolulu where
the youth and girl whom he had mar
ried. were living. The final scene IS
that where the play acquires its name
for it was then that Henry Potter re-
turned home with money that he had
made by honest toll, and was joyfully
received in his fathers home.
William Crowell, who was cast for
the character OF Henry Potter, the
one who came back" gave such a per-
Torrance as will long be remembered
among the patrons Of the theater here.
No more versatile acting could be re-
auired OF any performer. 1t was Meth.
er rant nor misinterpretation and in
the scenes calling for intensity he
showed admirable control The Mar
ceIle of Miss Dorothy Bernard, whose
confidence in the wayward son even
tually put him on the road leading to
the homecoming, was exceptionally
strong, and an evenness pervaded the
nresence Of the others behind the foot
lights. even to those sustaining the
smaller parts.