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

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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The scenery painted from sketches made of the exact locality, by Albert and Burridge.
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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
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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 _sits on rocker and fans herself with frayed-out palm leaf._
MRS. VERNON. Lor'--to think o' this weather in June. It's jis' terrible.
Enter KATE. _She is neatly gowned and is of a superior clay._
KATE. Mother--
MRS. VERNON. Well, Kate?
KATE. Must we have this awful odour again to-night?
MRS. VERNON. Got to have somethin', Kate, to drive off the skeeters. [Enter LIZBETH.] I ain't slep' none for two nights.
KATE. They might be kept out some other way. [_She sits in chair._
MRS. VERNON. [_Taking the fresh iron and resuming work._] I ruined my best pillar-slips an' nearly smothered myself with coal oil