Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 6, 1907
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A WORLD TOUR BY ACTORS.
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A party of world-faring tourists will be here next week that every citizen of
Marlin will want to see. They aren't cotton spinners from Liverpool nor
junketing congressmen from Washington. Just plain players--"vagabonds,"
the old English common law would have styled them. These actors ride in
Pullman cars, however, wear good clothes, and receive salaries that many
business men would envy. They are not rich but comfortably off and
exceedingly fortunate in being connected with the most popular play that ever
came South. Twenty-five years ago the voyage around the world was hardly
practicable except for the millionaires. Today forty of these actors will
circumnavigate the glove to play "The Clansman." The South should be proud
of the fact that a drama patriotically Southern to the backbone is the first
ever to make the complete circuit of the earth. It marks, as we say, a
great change in the world's affairs since the times when the actor was the
despised stroller and even the mighty Shakespeare was obliged to court the favor
and protection of some lordling. (sic) The drama is now recognized as a
tremendous power for good, and the influence of "The Clansman" in justifying the
ways of the South and setting history right concerning the Reconstruction era
has been simply incalculable.
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