Lady Bountiful, a Story of Years

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Excerpt from Lady Bountiful, a Story of Years: A Play in Four Acts Field at the Boston Museum, but the fortunes of the play differed very materially in the two great centres of American theatrical enterprise. In New York its success was far greater than had been anticipated, and it enjoyed quite a long career, but in Boston the playgoing public turned an indifferent ear to it, in spite of the sympathy and praise of the critics, and it was withdrawn in a fortnight. The Simplicity and gentleness of the story may have had something to do with this, as one wr1ter pointed out, though in some quarters it was suggested that the play was not as happily cast in Boston as in New York. A curious fact in connection with the New York pro duction was the changing of the hero's name from Dennis to Donald. Mr. Frohman did this because in that city, it appears, Dennis is used as the pro verbial designation for a man who is always left behind, and therefore it was not considered auspi cious for the hero of a new play. In Boston the name was not changed. Herein, perhaps, is matter for the curious collater of theatrical superstitions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.