Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1912 — Funny Harry Green Coming Here to Play “The Town Fool" [ARTICLE]

Funny Harry Green Coming Here to Play “The Town Fool"

Harry Green, the well known showman, stopped off between trains, enroute from -Cincinattl to his home in Chicago, to make a social call on J. H. S. Ellis. For the past several years he has headed the Eli and Jane company, but that has been closed and he> will appear here in August in “The Town Fool,” about which he has been talking for the past four years and which he had been deferring because the people still called for more of his “Eli and Jane.” Harry Green is an old circus clown, but gave up the stunt many years ago when some told him he was a whole show by himself. Since then he has been tryin to make everybody believe it and has got by In good fashion. He. has convulsed many a Rensselaer audience in laughter with his monologue stunt which figured conspicuously in “Eli and. Jane” and he has gone over the same territory, year after yeaK and packed houses when rival shows were playing to vacant seats. Harry is the author of his new play, “The Town Fool,” nd has built up the leading role for himself, and thinks he fits in “mighty handy.” Fulfilling a promise to Manager Ellis of four- years’ standing he will open the show- in Rensselaer, coming here with his company in August for rehearsal. Both Elmer and Jess Wilcox were with his J’Eli and Jane” show a year or two.