Cappy Ricks

              CAPPY RICKS

Great American Comedy New York Cast of Six Exceptional ActorsNot a Moving Picture


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Two Scenes from 
CAPPY RICKS





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CAPPY RICKS



P
ETER B. KYNE, who wrote 
Cappy Ricks,
 spent his spare time several years ago along the San Francisco water front, acquainting himself with the rare types of humanity peculiar to that locality.  There he met an old sea captain with a keen sense of humor, who always insisted on having his own way, right or wrong.  Around this weather-beaten old sea-dog, Mr. Kyne wrote the 
Cappy Ricks
 stories which found favor with millions of readers of the Saturday Evening Post.




Cappy Ricks
 was dramatized and presented on Broadway with Tom Wise and William Courtenay in the leading roles.  These stars are shown in the illustrations on the other side of this circular.




The opening scene of the play is in the office of Alden P. Ricks, known to his friends as 
Cappy
—gruff, blustering, headstrong, but never vindictive.




Early in the action of the play, we become acquainted with John Skinner, general manager for 
Cappy,
 but manager in name only.  We meet Cecil Pericles Bernard, a young waster of New York, whose father, an old friend of 
Cappy,
 tires of his son's prodigality, and sends him out to 
Cappy,
 primarily to make a man of the lad, but incidentally with an eye to business, for the father has hopes that Cecil will become attached romantically and legally to Florence Ricks, the pretty daughter of 
Cappy,
 and his heiress.




We also meet Captain Ole Peterson, in command of one of 
Cappy's
 schooners.  Ole has been charged by 
Cappy
 to take Matt Peasley, the first mate, who is a handsome and impertinent youngster, and figuratively 
nail him to the mast.
  Ole, however, returns from his mission with one eye in mourning, for it has stopped Matt's fist.  Incidentally, Matt becomes master of the ship by might, if not by right.  In a most ingenious way Matt wins 
Cappy's
 respect—and his daughter.  Cecil is perfectly satisfied, for eventually he gets the girl whom his father sent him West to forget.




Cappy Ricks
 is one of the cleanest plays on the American stage.  In it there is not a dull moment.  It is so delightfully different that you will talk about it for months.  It is a human document right out of the Book of Life.




Cappy Ricks
 will be presented here by a New York cast organized and coached by William J. Keighley, manager of the Redpath Bureau's New York City Producing Department.