The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-26
TOM WISE
"Cappy Kicks"
Tho Cast.

his friends 49,. Tom Wise
John skinner, his general man
ager .Percival Moore
Matt Peasley ........ Earle fO4e
Cecil Pericles Barnard, from the
east .Norval koedwell
Gala CHER, the ONCE boy Eugent Lowe
Baryis. the butler Elmer Ballard
CAPTAIN Ole Peterson. Philip LORD
Mike Murphy. >. Thomas Shearer
Darsey, a detective. Arthur Holloway
Florence Kicks. .Isobel Wlthers
Aunt Lucy Bartlett. Helen Lowell
Ellen Brown. $50. Helen Stewart
Betsy Grimsby. -. .Jacqueline Mason
Synopsis OF Scenes.
| Act I-Cappy's office of the biue
Star Navigation company, San Fran
cisco.
| Act II-Cappy's garden. several
months later.
Act II-Cappy's office. some
months later.
..Scoundrelsi of all degree, from
the merely "rowdy" and "unmiti-
gated" to the internal" cracRled ex-
plosively about the stage OF the
Grand yesterday afternoon ana
night. where Peter B. kyne's snip
ping magnate of pungent hctlonai
memory found embodiment IN three
act comedy entitled "Cappy KICKS.
4 One had always imagined the I'M
mortal "Cappy" as a little Wfsp OF
a man, a lean and weather-cured Ola
4 Yankee, sharp of features, sardonlc
4 Of eye. But after beholdlng the
Alden ]. Kicks of Tom Wise 1t seem
i ed certain that "Cappy" was rotuno
and jolly, ford and benevolent, the
most blusterous and amiable OF SOUS.
Incidents from Mr. kynes snort
stories that have appeared IN the
Saturday Evening Post have Deen
impressed for the throwing togetner
OF what may be considered ora.
matte plot. In the first act .Cappy
lis welcomed to his desk, on his six
Itieth birthday. in the office OF the
Blue Star Navigation company, San
/ Francisco, and celebrates the ami
Iversary by chuckhng over what prob
i ably has happened, by his direction,
to that "bumptiouS young scoundrel,
Matt Peasley, who has been turned
over to the tender mercies Of the
ltwo-fisted skipper, Ole Petersen.
! His unholy rejoicings are cut short
Iby the entrance of Captain Petersen.
bearing the marks of battle, with the
news that Matt has thrashed him and
taken command of his ship. The rest
of the story Is concerned with
l"Cappy's" devices for putting Matt
in his place. But that masterful
youth declines to be squelched; he
suddenly launches out as Napoleon
Of shipping; and ends by walking OF
with "Cappy's" daughter and heiress
which was What the benignant old
Idespot had wanted from the first
A humorous episode is injected by
the arrival from the east OF Cecil
Pericles Barnard, a languid youth
with monocle, top hat and walking
stick, whom his father has sent to
"Cappy" with the request that he be
made into business man, and cured
of chorus girI-itis." Cecil is placed
under the schooling of Oregon joe.
a riyer-front character, and speedily
loses his Respondent wardrobe. But
nothing can deprive him OF his Bo5-
ton accent, his monocle and his
drowsy drawl. He gives "Cappy
some uneasy moments, as ne fears
for time that his daughter Is about
to present him with Cecil as SON
in-law; however, Cecil ends by talk
ing on his malady in chronic form,
through marriage with chorus girl.
Tom Wise is Thoroughly happy in
the character of the remperamental
3"Cappy," who can roar as gently as
sucking dove. He has one effective
moment of pathos. when he tells Matt
how the latter's father Cied at sea
and his wife waited ia vain for his
return. There il plenty of whole
some numor in the part, and "Cappy,
for all his schemes and barking, is
the kindest of men-when he has, or
believes he is having. his own way.
There was an acceptable support
ing cast
Tom Wise was born in Faversham.
England, in 1865. When a child his
parents came to America and settled
in California, where Tom was reared
and grew up to early manhood. AS
a youth he displayed evidence
of histroionic talent and was popu-
lar amateur entertainer. His success
in amateur theatricals was such that
he was appointed stage director of
the performances in which he took
part. In his capacity of amateur
stage director he gave David War
field the first part he ever played
and Goa ched him in reading the lines
land stage business. In his early
Juveniles young Wise joined travel
ing company and became profess
sional At the end of his first season
on the road the company landed in
New York and Tom Wise has made
his home in that city since that time.
At the outbreak of the war Tom
wanted to do something for the cause
but as his age prevented him from
taking his place in the trenches, he
inserted advertisements in the news
papers that he would support the
families Of any two men who could
not afford to leave their dependents
who would enlist. Two men ac-
cepted and Tom kept his promise by
providing for their families and when
one of the men was killed in the
battles of the Argonne forest, Mr..
Wise gave the bereayed family lib
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