October 2 Thursday – The Brooklyn Eagle, p.4 ran an article about the upcoming drama of P&P by Edward H. House, “How a Woman Bids Fair to Outwit Mark Twain”:

E.H. House, who dramatized Mark Twain’s book, “The Prince and the Pauper,” and afterward had to go to law with the famous humorist to prevent him from using another dramatization of his story or to get paid for his own, is in a fair way of getting full pay for his work. Mr. House’s dramatization is to be seen for the first time in Brooklyn next week — at the Amphion academy, Messrs. Knowles & Morris having made special arrangements for its uninterrupted representations in view of the law suit and application for injunction against Mr. House and Tommy Russell’s mother now pending. Mr. House won his suit against Mark Twain for using Mrs. Richardson’s dramatization and the losers agreed to give Mr. House one-half of the royalties earned with Mrs. Richardson’s play. Next Mrs. Lamprecht, little Tommy Russell’s mother, contracted with Mr. House to produce his play, “Prince and Pauper,” with her son in the principal part. Then Mark Twain and his manager, Daniel Frohman, asked for an injunction to prevent the presentation of Mr. House’s dramatization by the Tommy Russell company and a decision in this application is nearly due. Mr. House and Mrs. Lamprecht make the point first seen by the woman, that in the first suit nothing was said by anybody about Mr. House not producing his own play.