Performed at Weber's Music Hall, New York, on December 24th. 1906.
DREAM CITY
Cast of Characters
| WILHELM DINGLEBENDER (A Long Island truck-farmer with a dreamy disposition and a chronic distaste for labor) | Joe Weber |
| J. BILKINGTON HOLMES (A Real Estate "boomer" with the plans of an ideal city) | Otis Harlan |
| SETH HUBBS (Village Hackman and the oracle of Malaria Center) | Will T. Hodge |
| HENRI D'ABSINTHE (An Artist in search of "Atmosphere") | Maurice Farkoa |
| HENRY PECK (A City flat-dweller, spending the week-end with his family in the country) | W. L. Romaine |
| WILLIE PECK (His restless offspring) | Lores Grimm |
| OLD MAN PLATT (A relic) | Major Johnson |
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JOE SNEDIKER HANK SCUDDER HEN CONKLIN |
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(Village "Romeos") |
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W. D. Stevenson Ernest Wood W. J. McCormack |
| BIG BILL HANKINS (A Farm Hand) | Will Lodella |
| TUFFIE (An incubator chicken) | David Abrams |
| NANCY (Dinglebender's daughter and the belle of the Malaria Center) | Cecilia Loftus |
| MARIA DINGLEBENDER (His wife, with energy enough for two, and a "bossy" disposition) | Lillian Lee |
| AMANDA BOGGS (The "help" at the Dinglebender Farm) | Madelyn Marshall |
| MRS. HENRY PECK (With alleged society connections in the Metropolis) | Cora Tracy |
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MABEL MAUDE GLADYS |
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(Her daughters) |
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Billy Norton Lois Ewell Lillian De Lee |
| SARAH SMITH (A Villager) | Ella Tate |
Locale
| ACT I | - The Dinglebender Farm at Malaria Center, Long Island. |
| ACT II | - The Principal Square in Dream City. |
THE MAGIC KNIGHT
Cast of Characters
| ELSA (A typical grand operatic maiden in the usual distressing predicament) | Lillian Blauvelt |
| ORTRUD (Her contralto aunt, given to dabbling in the art of magic) | Cora Tracy |
| FREDERICK (Her hen-pecked uncle) | Otis Harlan |
| THE KING (A base monarch) | Frank Belcher |
| LOHENGRIN (A professional rescuer of distressed maidens) | Maurice Farkoa |
| THE HERALD (A mediaeval news announcer) | W. L. Romaine |
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THE SWAN GODFREY |
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(An item in a foul conspiracy) | Lores Grimm |
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LASTNITE TUNITE TUMARONITE |
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(Three Knights) |
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Billy Norton Lois Ewell Lillian De Lee |
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