Friend (to theatrical manager, who : lui.s just returned from a tour in the ' l.'nited States) : "J hear that you ! tried Julius Caesar on the wild and j woolly denizens of .lack Rabbit City, Oklahoma. Mow did a lush-toned' i Shakespearian pla,\ like that seem I to strike the people ?" Theatrical manager : "Couldn't ;ha\c suited them better! Alter 'Julius was killed, they called him j out in front of the curtain twice, . and insisted on a speech each time ; ajul then they began calling for the author of the piece : and 1 (mallly i had to rig up as Shakespeare and go ! out and make a ten-minute speech of | thanks before they would allow the I play to go on."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7
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