Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — One of the Season’s Best. [ARTICLE]

One of the Season’s Best.

There are heroes and heroes on the stage, but the prince of them all is "Monte Cristo”. He is at once the exemplar and the despair of the lesser dramatists and he makes the swashbucklers of cheap melodramas look like farce comedy characters. The secret of the pre-eminence of Edmond Dantes can easily be discovered by watching the play as It will be presented by Fred G. Conrad’s Company at the opera house, Saturday, August 21st. Eugene Moore, the noted actor, who has played the star part In “Monte Cristo,” Innumerable times, furnished the play which Mr. Conrad uses and with this version go the traditions of the part as Mr. Moore always played it. This actor has a clear vision of what makes a real hero, and he has endowed bis Count of Monte Cristo accordingly. Mr. Conrad apparently has gathered an exceptional company. He will use the necessary quantity of special scenery.

Sixteen governors, including Oov. Marshall, have accepted Invitations to Join the party of President Taft In his trip down the Mississippi river next October, according to an announcement made by the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways association.