How Baxter Butted In
How Baxter Butted In is a stage play and silent film by Owen Davis (born 29th January, 1874, Portland, Maine, United States and died on 14th October, 1956, (age 82 years), in New York.)
The original text
How Baxter Butted In opened for the first time in New York City on November 13, 1905 and played through December 16, 1905. The story is a whimsical tale of Henry Baxter who is so unassuming and retiring that he bows courteously to his own shadow and begs "pardon" when somebody else steps on his sore toes. His own diffidence has made him an ardent admirer of personal courage and bravery on the part of others, and he visualizes himself as a bold, dashing cavalier who defends the girl he loves from all sorts of dangers. He is instinctively as brave as the best of them, and after plodding along in his mouse-like manner, he is suddenly hailed as the hero of the day, which leaves him gasping and foundering in a mass of foreign emotions.
Performance history in South Africa
28 -30 January, 1926: How Baxter Butted In was staged at the Orpheum, Johannesburg, starring Matt Moore as Henry Baxter, Dorothy Devore as Beulah Dyer, Wilfred Lucas, Ward Crane, Adda Gleason, Turner Savage, Virginia Marshall and the dog, Cameo.
Sources
South African Pictorial, January 29, 1926.
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