Presented at the New York Theatre, New York, on February 18th. 1903,
and then at the Grand Opera House, New York, on August 27th 1904.
IN DAHOMEY
Cast of Characters
| JE-JE (a caboceer) | Charles Moore |
| MENUKI (Messenger of the King) | William Elkins |
| SHYLOCK HOMESTEAD (called "Shy" by his friends) | Bert A. Williams |
| RAREBACK PINKERTON ("Shy's" personal friend and adviser) | George W. Walker |
| HAMILTON LIGHTFOOT (president of a colonization society) | Pete Hampton |
| DR. STRAIGHT (in name only, a street fakir) | Fred Douglas |
| MOSE LIGHTFOOT (brother of Hamilton, thinks Dahomey a land of great promise) | William Barker |
| GEORGE REEDER (proprietor of an intelligence office) | Alex Rogers |
| HENRY STAMPFIELD (letter carrier, with an argument against immigration) | Walter Richardson |
| ME SING (a Chinese cook) | George Catlin |
| HUSTLING CHARLEY (promoter of Get-the-Coin Syndicate) | J. A. Shipp |
| LEATHER (a bootblack) | Richard Connors |
| OFFICER STILL | J. Leubrie Hill |
| WHITE WASH MAN | Green Tapley |
| MESSENGER RUSH (but not often) | Theodore Pankey |
| PANSY (Daughter of Cecilia Lightfoot, in love with Leather) | Abbie Mitchell |
| CECILIA LIGHTFOOT (Hamilton's wife) | Mrs. Hattie McIntosh |
| MRS. STRINGER (dealer in forsaken patterns, also editor of fashion notes in "Beanville Agitator") | Mrs. Lottie Williams |
| ROSETTA LIGHTFOOT (a troublesome young thing) | Aida Overton Walker |
Synopsis of Scenes
| PROLOGUE | - Garden of the Caboceer (Governor of a Province). | |
| ACT I | - Public Square, Boston. Three months later. | |
| ACT II | Scene 1 | - Exterior of Lightfoot's Home, Gatorville, Florida. |
| Scene 2 | - Road, one and a half miles from Gatorville. | |
| Scene 3 | - Interior of Lightfoot's Home. | |
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