Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — “QUINCY SAWYER ADAMS” [ARTICLE]

“QUINCY SAWYER ADAMS”

Popular New England Ploy Will Open Twa> Week.*' Engagement at Aucitoriuno Theatre, November it. Chicago’s monster Auditorium-' Theatre has been leased for a lwc> weeks engagement of tbe success—ful Eastern production “Quincy* Adams Sawyer” which begins ov> Nov. 16. Tho Auditorium, which is the largest theatre i» thecountry was secured because the* stage of no other play-house' m* Chicago could accommodate th®f immense production. Another unusual feature is that instead of the fancy prices usually charged! for attractions at the Auditorium the coming production will be thev first popular price play ever seem in the great structure. The besi seat in the house will be purchasable for one dollar. “Quincy Adams Sawyer” has been pronounced by many competent critics the best New England pfoy ever written and of the same* lasting popularity as “Shore? Acres” which has been for many vears the great type of New England drama so ably depicted by James A. Horne. The mantle of this great playwright seems to have fallen on Charles Feltim Pidgin who has already reaped a fortune from royalties on the novel and the drama. The publisher, Miss Carro M, Clark, air enterprising Yankee, who organized a publishing bouse and made $50,000 in one year out of this remarkably popular book, is still continuing to reap the reward of her sagacity in recognizing a grenf work win n she saw it. The story of the play is intensely human and there is no erring" woman, no youth gone wrong or any feature which might be at all objectionable in tbe production. It is a beautiful yet simple story of home life with the New England environment played by an exceptionally accomplished company of artists. Scenically it is one of the most beautiful productions dow on tbe stage.