Fetching 'Em in Janesville

The Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Recorder
1885: January 2

TWAIN AND CABLE.

  This evening "Mark Twain" (Samuel L. Clemens) and George W. Cable will appear before a Janesville audience for the first time in their double entertainment. The Buffalo Times says of them:

  A very large and fashionable audience assembled in Concert Hall last night to hear that prince of humor, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), and that celebrated novelist, George W. Cable, in their joint readings. They went expecting a treat and they got decidedly more than they bargained for. A more delighted, amused, thoroughly satisfied audience never filled the auditorium of any building in Buffalo. Mark Twain, like old wine, or old friends, seems to improve with age, and his dry, unconscious, apparently spontaneous humor kept the audience in convulsions of laughter.

  Mr. Geo. W. Cable's readings were not one whit less appreciated than were Twain's. His style of rendition is different, of course; his genius for description and natural intuition of the exact phases and character of all men are wonderful, and when his own writings are given with the exactitude and faithfulness he would have them, his genius and power stand out, and one can easily perceive the living images molded and shaped by his artist hands and master brain. Those who have read Mr. Cable's novels of Southern life, and have fancied they have struck the exact chord, even to the peculiar Creole patois and Creole life, need to hear the man who conceived the works to find that, no matter how careful may have been their study, they are somewhat mistaken.

The following is the programme for this evening:


1. From Dr. Sevier--Narcisse and John and Mary
     Richling.  "Mistoo 'Ichlin,' in fact, I can baw that
     fifty dolla' from you myself."...........Geo. W. Cable
2. Advance sheets from "The Adventures of Huckleberry
     Finn,"--"King Sollermun.".................Mark Twain
3. From Dr. Sevier--Kate Riley, Richling
     and Ristofalo...............................Geo. W. Cable
4. Tragic Tale of the Fishwife...........Mark Twain
5. From Dr. Sevier--Narcisse puts on mourning
     for "Lady Byron."........................Geo. W. Cable
6. A Trying Situation....................Mark Twain
7. From Dr. Sevier--Mary's Night Ride...Geo. W. Cable
8. Selection..................................Mark Twain

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