Scenes from The Traveling Salesman, written by the Canadian playwright James Forbes (1871-1938), and performed at the Illinois Theater, Chicago, in 1908, starring Frank McIntyre, Doris Kenyon, and Harry Northrup.
Because a Pullman porter falls to eject him from his berth in the morning, Bob Blake, a traveling salesman, is carried past his station on Christmas morning, and finds himself in Grand Cross. The most interesting sight to that town is the pretty face that smiles at Blake through the window of the telegraph office at the station. Blake is rotund, jovial and trustworthy...
Poster for the Broadway production of The Traveling Salesman (1908), which Forbes wrote and directed
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