Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — A Triumph of Art. [ARTICLE]

A Triumph of Art.

••There ip one very dramatic situation in my new play. It is whore the mortgage on the old farm is foreclosed and the hero can’t pay it off.” “Does it affect the audience much?” ••Oh, my! Why,last night a millionaire in one of the boxes was so affected that he wrote out a check for $lO,000 and sent it up to pay off the mortgage and get the hero out of difllculs ties.”