New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922

All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Copyright, 1922
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1922

TO MY MOTHER
WHOSE VISION CAUSED ME
TO SEE BIG THINGS

“The theater is a crucible of civilization. It is a place of human communion. It is in the theater that the public soul is formed.”

Victor Hugo.

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
I.The Raindrops[1]
II.Country Folks[17]
III.The Land of the Dacotahs[33]
IV.The Little Country Theater[41]
V.The Heart of a Prairie[59]
VI.Characteristic Incidents[67]
VII.A Bee in a Drone’s Hive[95]
VIII.Larimore[153]
IX.Forty Towns[167]
X.Cold Spring Hollow[179]
Appendices[187]