Round up, The

Round up, The (1907), a drama by Edmund Day. [New Amsterdam Theatre, 155 perf.] When guilt at having stolen his best friend's wife becomes too much for Jack Payson ( Orme Caldara), he heads out into the desert to seek that former buddy. Dick Lane ( Wright Kramer) is now a mining engineer who has sought to forget his bitterness by accepting work in dangerous and forsaken places. Just as the men meet, a band of Apaches attacks the encampment. The two men fight side by side until Lane is killed and the Indians routed, after which Payson can return home with a somewhat clearer conscience. A rather strange story, since the man who comes out best was the less likable of the two and since the woman in question never appears, the Klaw and Erlanger production found much of its appeal from the performance of Maclyn Arbuckle as Sheriff “Slim” Hoover, who is resigned that “nobody can love a fat man.” Edmund DAY (1866–1923), a New Yorker, was an actor‐turned‐playwright whose works included a farce‐comedy, The Head‐Waiters (1902), a melodramatic vehicle for boxer Jim Corbett, Pals (1905), and a comedy for Lillian Russell, The Widow's Might (1909).