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PRESENTS DENMAN THOMPSON'S
"THE OLD HOMESTEAD
Hear the Famous Double Quartet
Full Scenic Production
See the Beautiful Church Scene
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The perennial drawing power of "The Old
Homestead" is indisputable, and its long success
and continuous popularity are due in no incon-
siderable measure to the fact that it is a perfect
transcript of nature, holding the mirror up to
nature as do few other plays of modern times.
It was accounted a good play twenty years ago-
as far back as 1886-when it had its initial per-
formance at the Boston Theatre, and made the
most telling success ever scored by a new pro-
duction in Boston. Year after year since then
it has repeated that success, and it has even
improved with age. Little melodramatic touches
and effects have been eliminated until now there
is more natural wit and humor in the dialogue
and more genuine touches of pathos and senti-
ment than ever before. It is old, yet ever new,
and it is absolutely true to the New England
country life which it represents. In Joshua
Whitcomb, the central figure of that circle of
familiar rustic types, we have to welcome a per-
fect representative of the best and broadest type
of humanity, a prosperous, warm-hearted, peace-
loving, God-fearing Yankee farmer. And asso-
ciated with him we shall find, as of old, those
other delightful characters, Cy Prime, Seth Per-
kins, Happy Jack, Aunt Matilda, Eb Ganzey,
and Rickety Ann.
Town Hall
Sanford
Tuesday Evening
April 23
1912.
