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...WILL BE HEARD"-John Beecher-Privately Printed...
...Beecher, who wrote his future wife, after graduating from his father's theological seminary: "I cannot assent. What then? Preach I will, licensed or not. . . . Will you go with me into the wilderness?" Today the American wilderness sprouts populations instead of trees. But the protestant blood of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and others like them, flows on unchanged-a bright, early-American, rebel...
...nobody seemed to care. The present generation, still curious about Uncle Tom's Cabin as the greatest propaganda novel in the history of the U. S., has little feeling for it as the greatest hokum play in the history of the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe fought against having her book dramatized, on the ground that if people began going to Christian plays they would end up going to un-Christian ones. But in an age before U. S. copyright laws protected the author's dramatic rights, Uncle Tom was pirated (by Actor G. L. Aiken and others), with...
...here last night. The dogs were good." Anything went in a Tom Show. Eliza might cross the ice against a backdrop of the tropics. There were comedy teams, minstrel troupes, animal acts. There were "double shows"-two Uncle Toms, two Topsies, two Legrees; there were even triple shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe once went to see Uncle Tom's Cabin in Hartford and had to have the plot explained...
...furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...