Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura | Page 7

and for
his people. He describes it as it was; and them as they were. In the play
something is happening. Its form is controversial--and the playwright,
by force of this controversy, is in turn each one of his characters, and
not merely a witness of their doings. When they begin to take hold of
him, their possession is more and more insistent--all interests in real
life become more and more secondary and remote until the questions in
dispute are not only decided, but there is also a written record of the
debates and the decision.
By the time our train pulled into New York, I was impatient to make a
running transcript of speeches of my contending people. But that is a
relief that must be deferred. Like over-anxious litigants, the characters
are disposed to talk too much, and must be controlled and kept in
bounds by a proportioned scenario, assigning order, and respective and
progressive values to them. That was the work of a day by that time,
and then, with the material gathered, and the intimacy with the people
and the places, the play was one that wrote itself.
AUGUSTUS THOMAS.
[Footnote 1: The Witching Hour; Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots; The Earl of
Pawtucket; The Harvest Moon; Oliver Goldsmith [Published by
Samuel French].]
[Footnote 2: Written before the death of Mr. Goodwin.]

=HOOLEY'S THEATRE,=

TWENTY-THIRD SEASON
R.M. HOOLEY Proprietor and Manager.
HARRY J. POWERS Business Manager.
* * * * *
COMMENCING MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 7th, 1893.
Every Evening and Saturday (Only) Matinee
MR. NAT C GOODWIN
AND COMPANION PLAYERS
Under the direction of Mr. Geo. J. Appleton, will produce for the first
time on any stage, a drama of character, entitled
="IN MIZZOURA"=
By MR. AUGUSTUS THOMAS, author of "Alabama," etc.
* * * * *
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
JIM RADBURN MR. NAT C. GOODWIN ROBERT TRAVERS MR.
FRANCIS CARLYLE JO VERNON MR BURR. McINTOSH
COLONEL BOLLINGER MR. WM. C. BEACH BILL SARBER MR.
ROBT. G. WILSON SAM FOWLER MR. ARTHUR HOOPS DAVE
MR. LOUIS PAYNE ESROM MR. J.W. McANDREWS KELLY MR.
LOUIS BARRETT CAL MR CHARLES MILLER KATE VERNON
MISS BELLE ARCHER MRS. JO VERNON MRS. JEAN CLARA
WALTERS 'LIZBETH VERNON MISS MINNIE DUPREE EM'LY
RADBURN MISS MAE E. WOOD
Virginia Students Quartette and Villagers
* * * * *
SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY.
ACT I.--Living room of Jo Vernon's house. Bowling Green, Pike
County, Missouri. Time--Evening in June.
ACT II.--Blacksmith shop of Jo Vernon adjoining his residence.
Time--Morning of the second day.
ACT III.--Living room of Jo Vernon. Time--Evening of the second day.
ACT IV.--Home and door yard of Jim Radburn. Time--The next
Morning.
* * * * *
The scenery painted from sketches made of the exact locality, by Albert
and Burridge.
* * * * *

EXECUTIVE STAFF FOR MR. GOODWIN.
Mr. Charles E. Power Business Manager Mr. Louis Barrett Stage
Manager Mr. Daniel Cronin Master Carpenter Mr. Charles Miller
Properties
* * * * *
CAST.
As given at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, on Monday Evening,
September 4, 1893.
JIM RADBURN Mr. Nat C. Goodwin. ROBERT TRAVERS Mr.
Emmett Corrigan. JO VERNON Mr. Burr McIntosh. COLONEL
BOLLINGER Mr. William G. Beach. BILL SARBER Mr. Robert G.
Wilson. SAM FOWLER Mr. Arthur Hoops. DAVE Mr. Louis Payne.
ESROM Mr. J.W. McAndrews. KELLY Mr. Louis Barrett. CAL Mr.
Charles Miller. MRS. JO VERNON Mrs. Jean Clara Walters.
'LIZBETH VERNON Miss Minnie Dupree. EM'LY RADBURN Miss
Mae E. Wood. KATE VERNON Miss Mabel Amber.

IN MIZZOURA.
ACT I.
_Music at rise of curtain. The old "Forty-nine" tune, "My name is Joe
Bowers."_
SCENE: _Pike Co., dining-room, living-room and kitchen combined. A
line of broken plaster and unmatched wall-papers marks the ceiling and
back flat a little left of center. Doors right and left in 3. Door in right
flat. Old-fashioned table. Dresser, low window with many panes,
window-sash sliding horizontally--outside of door is pan of leaves
burning to smoke off mosquitoes._
DISCOVERED: MRS. VERNON and LIZBETH. MRS. VERNON
_ironing;_ LIZBETH _at pan of fire._
MRS. VERNON. Lizbeth!
LIZBETH. Ma--?
MRS. VERNON. Move that pan a little furder off. The smoke's a
durnation sight worse'n the skeeters.
LIZBETH. [_Rising and coming in._] Well, we couldn't sleep fur 'em
last night, and it's just as well to smoke 'em good.
MRS. VERNON. But such an all fired smell--what're you burnin'?
LIZBETH. Dog fannel--

MRS. VERNON. I thought so. It's nearly turned my stomich--come,
hurry with this ironin' now.
LIZBETH. [_Coming down right of table._] Let's leave it till mornin',
ma--
MRS. VERNON. Can't, Lizbeth, it's bin put off since Wednesday, an'
the furst thing we know we'll be havin' it to do Sunday--get me another
iron. [LIZBETH goes left.] I'm reg'lar tuckered out.
LIZBETH. Me too. [_Sound of sledge hammer from door left._
LIZBETH _exits._
MRS. VERNON