Word: murgatroyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curses on that city slicker! He ain't done right by our little Nell!" cries Hiram Stanley, the honest farmer. It's true he ain't and it looks bad for Nell. But virtue triumphs, and villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack...
...tall, slender Francis Grover Cleveland, 29, son of Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company, The Stagers, which he organized and manages. A onetime instructor in English...