Frank Merriwell's Fame — page 38: what you’re looking at

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jcristina.com “AN IDEAL PUBLICATION FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH.” Tie Tor WEEKLY. Leurd Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered as Second Class Matter at the St, N. ¥. Hiterved Aceording to Ack of Congress, the Yeas 1898, N.Y. Post Ofice. SrnunT & SMITH, 81 Fulton in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. NEW YORK, December 3, 1898. Price Five Cents. Pee Bee Rea a Contents of This Number. FRANK MERRIWELL’S FAME ; or, The Road to Success APPLAUSE - CORRESPONDENCE - “, f : FRANK MERRIWELL’S FANE; O ] By the Author of “PRANK MERRIWELL. CHAPTER I. AFTER THE FIRST ACT. “Author! Author!” It was the opening night of Frank Merri- well’s play, “John Smith of Montana,” and the theatre of the Missouri town where the play was produced for the first time was packed. : The curtain had gone down on the great sensational sawmill scene at the end of the third act, and the audience had roared its ap- proval, being roused as no audience had ever before been aroused in that town. Again and again Frank and Elsie Bell- wood had been called in front of the curtain to bow before the applauding people, and it seemed that the spectators never would be satisfied. And now they were shouting for the au- thor of the play. a The advertising had announced that “John Smith of Montana” was a new drama, and would be produced in that town for the first time. Having by their applause placed their stamp of approval on the play and the leading actors, the audience was determined to have a look at the writer of the piece, not knowing that the star of the cast was the author. Behind the curtain there was nearly as excitement as in front. The people in the cast had been in hard luck nearly all the season, barnstorming in the Middle West, and there had been many doubts about the outcome of the new venture. Now, however, these doubts were ~ dis- pelled, and the actors and actresses saw Vi- sions of a prosperous finish of the season, big houses, rushing business, and the “ghost” walking regularly every week. They danced and laughed, shaking hands with each other. The leading lady, sedate “Clif Faraday’s Disappearance; or, The Naval Cadet’s Double Championship’—No. 30 True Blue comicbooks.com