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MAGNOLIA
A comedy in three acts by Booth Tarkington. Produced by Alfred A. Aarons, Inc.,  at the Liberty Theatre, New York, August 27, 1923.
40 performances.
Cast of characters:

J.K. Hutchinson...
General Rumford
Elizabeth Patterson...
Madame Rumford
Phyllis Schuyler...
Elvira
Martha Bryan-Allen...Lucy
Leo Carrillo...
Tom
John Rutherford...
Major Patterson
James Bradbury, Jr....
Joe Patterson
Malcolm Williams...
General Orlando Jackson
John Harrington...
Blackie
Ethel Wilson...
Mexico
Barrinton Carter...
Rumbo
Acts I.--General Rumford's Estate. Magnolia Landing, Mississippi, 1841. Act II.--General Jackson's Gaming Resort, Natchez. Act III.--Drawing Room of the Mansion.
Staged by Ira Hards.
Synopsis:
In the 1830's the Rumfords live at Magnolia Landing, Mississippi. Young Tom Rumford, taken north when a boy, was brought up by relaitves of Quaker tendencies living near Philadelphia. Returning to Magnolia Landing, a young man, he refuses to accept the duel as the only means of settling a dispute between gentlemen. He does not believe in fighting. Insulted by a bully, he refuses to fight. Which so angers his fire-eating father that Tom is sent to the woodshed to live. Running away from home he drifts into a gambling house in Natchez just in time to see the proprietor shoot down a couple of faro cheaters. From the gambler Tom learns that courage is merely a question of preparedness. "The brave man is the man who feels he is safe." Under which spur Tom fights another bad man who has insulted him, acquires an acquaintance with the use of firearms and seven years later returns to Magnolia Landing as "the notorious Cunnel Blake," terror of the lower Mississippi. Here he is romantically revenged upon his male enemies and wins the love of his most adorable cousin.
From The Best Plays of 1923-1924 by Burns Mantle.