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"Texas Steer" Next Play of Mohawk Drama Festival
[NY] Evening Recorder, 1 Aug 1938


In the wake of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" the Mohawk Drama Festival tomorrow night will give the accolade to a typical "western" on the Union College campus by presenting Charles H. Hoyt's uproarious farce-comedy, "A Texas Steer."

Charles Coburn, noted actor and director of the festival, will return tot he outdoor stage in the role of Maverick Brander, Texas cattle king, who is eelected to Congress against his will. James Kirkwood, who will be remembered for his performance as Sassafrass Livingston with Mr. Coburn's Jim Hackler in "County Chairman" two seasos back, will again play a black-face comedy part, this time as Christopher Columbus Fishback, "a colored stateman" who wants a job as "Minister to Dahomey."

The picturesque Southwest in the days when the border warfare with Indians and Mexicans was still going on, will be portrayed by a colorful "atmospheric" production by the festival. Marc Williams, noted cowboy singer of radio, will play Colonel Blow in the farce, and he, with a contingent of embryo lariat-twirlers, will perform some acrobatic maneuvers with the lasso and the cowboy's treble.

The cast will include Mary Hutchinson as Bossie Brander, the cattle king's daughter; Frederica Going as Mrs. Brander; John Griggs as Captain Fairleigh Bright, U. S. A.; Leslie Barrie as Brassy Gall, "a member of the Third House;" Donna Earl as Mrs. Major Campbell, "whose husband is an army officer stationed in Texas;" Herbert Corthell as Major Yell, "a lawyer;" John Burke as Colonel Bragg, "a faro dealer;" Marc Williams a Colonel Blow, "a bartender;" George Taylor as Othello Moore, "a private waiter in the Arlington hotel;" Lyster Chambers as Colonel K. N. Pepper; William Post, as Knott Innitt, Brander's private secretary;" Fairfax Burgher as Lieutenant Green, U. S. A.; Sylvia Leigh as Dixin, "an orphan from Indian."






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