ABSTRACT
If Stetson’s production of this unfortunate adaptation of an already unfortunate English piece was a flop, “Harry Dixey’s opportunity” was certainly not. But this time Stetson passed. When he looked at the script of Adonis, which Dixey had hoped that the producer would mount at his Globe Theater, in Boston, prior to Broadway, he gave as his opinion that the piece was simply too costly for him to put on. The properties alone would cost more than $300. Adonis was simply not a viable financial prospect. So Dixey and Gill went looking for another producer, or coproducer, and they found one without too much trouble in Dixey’s old employer, the original producer of Horrors, Edward E. Rice.
