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''Courted Into Court'' is an 1896 play by John J. McNally. It was produced by Charles T. Rich and

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for a 140 performance run at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway starting on December 29, 1896. The Best Plays of 1894-99
p. 189 (1955)(30 December 1896)
Mary Irwin in a New Farcical Vaudeville Play
''The Sun'' Prior to its Broadway debut, it played first on any stage in Omaha, Nebraska on December 4, 1896,(30 November 1896)
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''Omaha Daily Bee''Amusements
''Omaha Daily Bee''(6 December 1896)
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''Omaha Daily Bee'' (review of play) and then moved to

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.(12 December 1896)
Music and the Drama
''Kansas City Daily Journal'' and Chicago.(30 December 1896)
Notes of the Stage
''Indianapolis Journal'' Star

May Irwin May Irwin (born Georgina May Campbell; June 27, 1862 – October 22, 1938) was an actress, singer and star of vaudeville. Originally from Canada, she and her sister Flo Irwin found theater work after their father died. She was known for her per ...

sang and helped popularize (the now notorious example) coon song "All Coons Look Alike to Me" by Ernest Hogan in the play, which had an all-white cast.Lee, Mauren D
Sissieretta Jones: "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933
p. 158 (2012) She also sang the coon song, "Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose" in the play, a song later remembered in all of Irwin's major obituaries.Ammen, Sharon
May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy
p. 100 (2017)

Cast

at Dottie Dimple *

John C. Rice John C. Rice (April 7, 1857, Sullivan County, New York – June 5, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American born Broadway stage actor and vaudevillian who is credited with performing the first onscreen kiss with May Irwin in 1896 for ...

as Worthington Best, Sr. * Raymond Hitchcock as Worthington Best, Jr. * Clara Palmer as Mrs. Worthington Best, Sr. *

Hattie Williams Hattie Williams (March 17, 1870 - August 17, 1942) was an American stage actress, comedian and vocalist from Boston. She was a popular player in vaudeville and with Charles Frohman's theatrical company at the turn of the twentieth century and ap ...

as Helen Best * Ada Lewis as Mademoiselle Nocodi * George W. Barnum as Gen. Baron Vladimir Vladistoff * Joseph M. Sparks as Judge Jeremiah Geoghan * Jacques Kruger as Pop Dooley * Sally Cohen as Sylvia Rosebud * Roland Carter as Mortimer Morton and Sharp Lawyer * Eva Gilroy as Gertie(6 February 1897)
"Courted Into Court"
'' The Illustrated American'', p. 204

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* {{IBDB show, 455778, Courted Into Court 1896 plays