County Fair, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

County Fair, The (1889), a play by Charles Barnard. [Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre, 105 perf.] Aged Abigail Prue ( Neil Burgess) is in danger of losing her New England farm because she has not enough money to make payments on the mortgage. But she has a horse named Cold Molasses, and when she runs him in a race at the county fair, he wins the $3,000 she needs to buy back the mortgage. This makes everyone happy since Abigail is a nice old lady who has smoothed many a path to the altar for neighboring youngsters. A clean, homey comedy, featuring the era's leading female impersonator, it returned the following two seasons for even longer runs and remained in Burgess's repertory for over a decade. Barnard (1838?–1920), best known for his long association with Scribner's Monthly, was the author of a number of plays, including his collaboration with Henry C. de Mille, The Main Line (1886).

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