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SHOWMAN
kind of public indignation build-up which has been a favorite on Broadway ever since. People flocked to see this naughty show. When they saw it, they saw nothing the modern child couldn't be taken to see, but it was new and daring and Tooker played those elements to a fare-ye-well.
And he did the same thing with Rignold. As soon as the new English star appeared he began to receive the richest, lushest, most outspoken collection of mash notes that ever a young man with a profile found to read. Rignold knew nothing at all about the actual source of the things. It must have fair driven him crazy. But somehow Tooker managed to let the papers get hold of some of the more lurid specimens and overnight Rignold was running Montague neck and neck as the favorite of the feminine public. Tooker followed through by billing his new luminary to play a special matinee of "Romeo and Juliet"— for Tooker's own benefit, by the way— with seven different Juliets, one for each scene, including such illustrious actresses as Adelaide Neilson, Fanny Davenport and Marie Wainwright.
It all worked just a little too well. Mrs. Rignold, peacefully awaiting her husband's return to England, got hold of some of the published correspondence and took the next boat. She arrived in New York, breathing fire and slaughter, demanding an explanation from her innocent husband and threatening to divorce him on account of these outspoken ladies who clogged his mail
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