Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — “Girl From Eagle Ranch” Was Wonderfully Short on Cash. [ARTICLE]

“Girl From Eagle Ranch” Was Wonderfully Short on Cash.

“The Girl From Eagle Ranch" company, which undertook to entertain the theatre goers here Tuesday night, had no license- whatever except a phenomonal lot of nerve to be doing anything else than sawing wood or washing clothes. These are honest occupations and possibly some of the thirteen people might have earned an honest livelihood by following these pursuits, but they were out of place in the show business, and from top to bottom were the worst lot of barnstormers that has hit Rensselaer in many years. Two or three of them wore broad-brimmed hats that were large enough to cover the aggregate theatrical talent of the whole thirteen, but not large enough to deceive the public, Vho looked upon them with downright pity. During the performance here two of the characters, after parading the streets all day, read their parts. At one stage of the gams one of the men was to draw a revolver but he had forgotten to take it on the Btage with him and he reached for his hip pocket threateningly and doubling up his coat tail pointed it at the villain, who accommodatingly fell dead in his tracks. He was an obedient villain. Trouble had evidently been pursuing the company for some time and it broke hard here. They could not meet their hotel expense and buy tickets to Chalmers. A distress wire “back to the old folks at home” had not been responded to. Landlord Fate let them buy their railroad tickets and then sent Jess Wilcox with them to Chalmers to collect his bill. Jess acted as general manager at Chalmers and took up tickets at the door and squared things at the box office. After Fate’s bill was paid and the opera house squared for, the company was lert with sll and their distress telegram still unanswered.