"The Meanest Man in the World": a Geo. M. Cohan comedy

              The Meanest Man in the World
A Geo. M. Cohan Comedy

Presented by Experienced
Broadway Players
Under Personal Direction of
William J. Keighley

A regular $2.50 Show At Chautauqua, 75c

See place and date on back page hereof




CARL A. REED


ELSIE MAY GORDON


WILLIAM J. KEIGHLEY


CHAS. TAZEWELL

A Player is Known by the Company He Keeps

Who's Who}
These Players Have All Won Their Place in the Sun on the Great, White Way.  You Don't See Such Excellent Companies Outside, of the Big Cities—and Then You Pay $2.50 Per Seat.



CARL A. REED Will play BART NASH
Has appeared in:

Classmates
Satan Sanderson
The Typhoon
Pair of Sixes
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Nothing but the Truth
I Love You
Turn to the Right
 and with Ben Greet Players.



ELSIE MAY GORDON Will play KITTY CROCKETT

This is her fifth season in Chautauqua plays.
Has made child impersonations for Pathe records.



WILLIAM J. KEIGHLEY as RICHARD CLARKE
Is so well and favorably known to our patrons as to make further comment seem useless, yet Mr. Keighley has triumps in other fields well worth relating—so here goes:

On Redpath Vawter programs his record is:

1914—Ben Greet Players
1918—It Pays to Advertise
1920—Nothing but the Truth
1921—Broadway Jones
1922—Turn to the Right


In New York productions:

Inside the Lines
Little Women
The Crowded Hour
Richard the Third with John Barrymore
Just Suppose with Patricia Collinge
Listening In
Romeo and Juliet with Ethel Barrymore
Where the Subway Ends


(Sailing for France in October to make a study of the French language and theatre.)



CHARLES TAZEWELL Will play NED STEPHENS
Has played with Ben Greet Players.

In the Theatre Guild.

Shubert's Theatre, New York.

Friendly Enemies.

Cappy Ricks.

In stock companies in St. Joe, Kansas City and Omaha.

In the successful farce comedy, What's Your Number?

May Tully's Bucking the Tiger, with Forrest Winant, Cyril Chadwick, Ben Bendricks, etc., in the cast.

With Percy Williams' Stock Company, Crescent Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., playing all the Broadway successes.

In moving pictures: at the Universal with Mary Fuller and Ben Wilson; with the Empire Film Company playing the Frohman successes from the Empire Theatre, New York City.



FREDERICK WEBBER Will play FREDERICK LEGGITT
Has appeared in many Broadway productions with such producers as Liebler & Co., W. A. Brady, George C. Tyler and David Belasco.

Among recent plays are: Alias Jimmy Valentine, Ready Money, Penrod, Robert E. Lee, Pitter Patter.

Has appeared with such stars as Henrietta Crossman, Alice Brady, Zelda Sears, Ernest Truax, James K. Hackett, and others.



JAMES A. BOSHELL Will play CARLTON CHILDS
Has played with the following companies:

Charles Dillingham's production of Bulldog Drummond at the Knicker-bocker Theatre, New York City.

Where's Your Wife, Punch and Judy Theatre, New York City.

George Tyler's production of Penrod, by Booth Tarkington, Olympic Theatre, Chicago.

Wilton Lackaye in Hall Caine's production of The Bondman, management of Wm. A. Brady.



CLARENCE BELLAIR Will play MICHAEL O'BRIEN
Has appeared in

The Gingham Girl.
The Love Chef with Leo Carrillo.
Up From Nowhere with Norman Trevor.
Pietro with Otis Skinner.
Cure for Curables with William Hodge.
Omar, the Tentmaker with Guy Bates Post.
The Sweetest Girl in Paris, LaSalle Theatre production, and so on back to 1883.




MYRTA BELLAIR Will play JANE HUDSON
Has played with the following companies:

The Misleading Lady, road production.
The Eternal Magdalene, playing the leading emotional role in support of Eugenie Blair.
The headliner in vaudeville called The Punch.
Selwyn's production of Fair and Warmer.
Understudy for William Hodge's Company, Cure for Curables.
Al Wood's production of Up in Mabel's Room.
What's Your Number?
It Pays to Advertise.
Bulldog Drummond.
Broadway Jones.




This is a Geo. M. Cohan Comedy A Brilliant New York Success Which Has Never Been Shown Outside New York Until Now





FREDERICK WEBBER



JAMES A. BOSHELL



CLARENCE BELLAIR



MYRTA BELLAIR





The Meanest Man in the World
WITH
WM. J. KEIGHLEY
Geo. M. Cohan's Latest Comedy Hit
Spontaneous, bubbling, wholesome comedy!  You'll laugh your sides off


A GEORGE M. COHAN PRODUCTION

The Meanest Man in the World
Under the personal direction and leadership of William Keighly and Company — a rip roaring comedy.

Here's where you get your laughs aplenty.


New York Telegraph
—'The Meanest Man In The World'—is smart and enjoyable.  Entire cast adequate.  Many of the lines and situations stand out like the proverbial good deed in a naughty world—is a good comedy—it offers never a dull moment from the rise of the initial curtain to the fall of the final one.  Action is speedy from the outset.  Dialogue is snappy and smart.


New York Times
—'The Meanest Man In The World' a refreshing comedy.  A typical Cohan comedy.  The single requirement of a play of this kind is that it shall be funny, and Mr. Cohan has seen well to this.  Filled with racy humor.  'There is neither illusion nor pretense — it aims to be a good show, and is'.





The Meanest Man in the World
appears at
MONTEVIDEO, MINN. WEDNESDAY JUNE 27

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