Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1906 — Story of “An Aristocratic T ramp.” [ARTICLE]
Story of “An Aristocratic T ramp.”
j ■* Opera House. Thursday. Sept. 6. A new addition to stage trampdout. “Sir Seedy Usetobe,” au ibdividual who has a strong dislike for anything that smacked of work. Of course the tramp is a man with a history. About sixteen years before he had been knocked in the head by the bad man of the play, and losiug all recollection of his former self he becomes a wanderer. He loses sight of his daughter aud wife, whom he has made au outcast.' In the end the playiight gives back his memory after streuuous complications iu which the villain commits murder and attempts to wipe out a number of other people. During the play an automobile race occurs between the tramp aud the Adventurer in which the tramp gets the better of it, owing to the fact that his foe’s car blows up at the right moment Another situation which causes a demonstration is where a train is stopped in time to save the life of the‘tramp who has been tied to the track. All ends happy. -The bad man dies the death he has earned and the audience go home satisfied.
