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earthquake costume, rushing out ot her bath into the street, wearing nothing but a towel around her neck - a costume which, if generally adopted, would go far toward reconciling some people to these dreaded ^ earthquakes.”
Hanging around in Nevada mining camps, hoping to strike it rich in between the necessary employment as a reporter, Twain ran into a man who told him the story of a clever visitor with a famous jumping frog. Twain wrote it, using the western rough vernacular. He spoke of it with contempt. It was simply not literary by the standards of the day. But people loved it. It became so well known that a picture of Twain seated on a cartoon frog was all that was necessary to print on a handbill advertising a Twain lecture. James Russell Lowell pronounced The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County as the finest piece of humorous writing ever produced in this country.
It took many more years for Twain to understand that writing humor was to be his profession,
years where he put together land deals, more mine deals and other schemes. When all else failed he went on the lecture circuit, entertaining audiences back East with his humor and quick wit. Sometimes he had a lecture every night. As he became more and more famous, Thomas Edison recorded some of his appearances, but these records were destroyed in a fire. He had no script, using only a few notes. We do know that he never failed. He always, according to newspaper accounts, left them laughing.
This Saturday RAAC will present a performance very much like that seen by our great-grandparents if they were lucky enough to live in a town where Twain appeared. Ed Steele, the director of Wayside Theatre, will appear at the Gay Street Theater in a one-man performance as Mark Twain. The show begins at 8:00 and special food and drink will be available. Tickets are $3 for students; $4 for RAAC members; and $5 for the general public.
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