MARK TWAIN AS DRAMATIST.
Mark Twain in »aid to ftave announced to fait friends in Hartford that under no condition will he ever allow another novel of hie to be dramatised. The transformation of hie story of "Huckleberry Finn" into a conventional musical comedy so disgusted him that he refused to attend the first performance in Hartford, end Mr Lee Arthur, hi* coJlaixwafceur, is authority for the state-
UMnt that the only line in the play which Mark Twain really wrote was cut out at one of the preliminary rehdirsals to moke room Uft another song and dance.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11492, 27 January 1903, Page 5
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98MARK TWAIN AS DRAMATIST. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11492, 27 January 1903, Page 5
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