| Show Did a Utah Man First Put Colonel Sellers on Stage I N the Ih July JIll Jul number um r or of larr larrI I IN 1 Monthly William Dean 1011 t I contributes a mot most InterestIng artl arll I elf ele ei on Mark Twan Twain one paragraph of which will wi have lB specIal II Interest for fori i Il h renders readers Tills Till refers j 1 I to tip tl the fatuous of o o The ria 01 11 ti ARC Age in which th u the John Johni i T appeared rd At t the hI Salt gait Luke Lake LukeI I I theater In June Iune Iun IU In hit his undying rely Ile of ot C Co l Hill Sellers rs I Mr Howells statement is ia a a 11 as follows follow i 1 I hail had hl be beet n a witness of ot the he high joy jO jOor of or In the pit triumph of nt th the ref Col eol ol gellers f which lt hn fyn trout from rm the tho th novel 1011 of ot Thu The Age This was lS the th joint work ork of ot Clemens aol ami Churl haries Dudley War Warner ar ncr ner niI and the thU th story hud luul been betl put pul upon I th stage It by Iw I me I one on In ill Utah whom Clemens first Irit brought to 10 t hook book In the ourt for tOI violation of or his hil copyright lend nd then Ihen Ibm Indemnified for nuch rights MS as tilts his hl adaptation of or th 11 the book hook hind hal civen 1 en j him The fhe structure of or the th play ua an W John JohnT JohnT I T I gave gate It was vaa S th the work of oe this unknown dramatist Clemens never pretended pret to mo rein r at itt lt any Al 1 that list he hIS h had h the least bend band In It Ithe Ithe Ithe he frankly owned that he h was wn nf cit tt yet t the ho vital putt 11 w 1 s hi h for th lb In the tho play wr tere HS Its It the lie book Iok b k embodied then them and the which It I won on with Ith the pub lit I w Wil with justly Jut his hil lii This Thil he lie shared Dually ual with th thO this actor follOwing the Ih ho company with wih an In agent who counted count out OUI the Ih authors hI of or the gate jale money mono and sent BOnt him a 1 note of o the ho re receipts r every etry day by postal cord The used to 10 come about dinnertime j I anti Clemen would rend rt read them he I aloud to I tolie In UK lie In wild triumph HOO were I the th K R gay y figures lun which they t bore brt 1 and which he ito hI flaunted In the tho air before lie 11 h sat down at nt the Ihl table table or rose lose front from It I to 0 brandish and then hn flinging his luls hil napkin into his hi chair walked up anti and j i down 10 o exult eull I Hi fly and by 13 b Um hit popularity of th Ih lie play piny al anil n le iama when he ho hoI heI I M Of or HIP lie CI whole affair withdrew 1 hi hi and took look whatever Rain gain from fromi i It tho alor apportions him hint He lie was apt to 10 have these the sudden fol tl foli i lowing upon the Ito II Intensities of ot hl liis er Interest though th he lie always I to tl I have hll tile the notion nollon of or making some me mei I II i t thing more Inure morl of tt Col 1 1 Sro Sellers i Diligent Inquiry antong all 11 the th old oM i tUne time theatrical people who might have hf ha I known the lie Utah man referred to 0 by b Mr Howells failed to 10 any Iny I 1 I tion on nil the thi h point rne me n party thought f I perhaps the h hate James Julios Jall Ferguson iW tW I I T 1 who was BI very Iry active in I making productions on In the h Suit Salt ul Lal LalI stage staige tl In the later Inter seventies might Inight he hethe the th person Slon referred to but the th pro pr Impression lon is it that hit Mr II Howells 10 must dust have hiatt been bp In error If It anyone reading Ihl lila article lisps has h any Ill knowledge e eor or recollection of o the I h subject The JtB oret t News Sews would be hi to 10 hear from him an as 11 Mr dr r statement If It correct Is well toll worth preserving n a ni a apart I apart I part frt of ot our theatrical hilory |
