Mark Twain.
The celebrated author of the ' Innocents Abroad,' 'Pudd'nhead Wilson,' and many other works —large and small, but all popular - will on Monday next make his only appearance in Palmerston North in the Theatre Royal. It appears that the popular novelist has had the idea of visitng the Antipodes before his mind for many years. In 1882 Mr Smythe, who was then in America, tried to induce him to visit Australia, but Mark Twain was then too busy with literary work. Two or three years later a Victorian journalist, travelling in America, failed to secure him, and about six years ago a small Melbourne syndicate renewed the attempt. It was upon the advice of Mr H. M. Stanley that Mark Twain finally resolved to come out to this part of the world, and he and his listeners have had no reason to regret his having accepted that advice. The plan of seats is now open at Mr W. Parke's, Palmerston, and to avoid disappointment no time should be lost in booking seats or securing tickets in advanoe as throughout Australia and New Zealand hundreds were nightly unable to gain admittance.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2
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