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Joseph Haworth as Ira Beasley in Sue withoutstreached arms-B&W-Resized.jpg (146367 bytes)

(l-r) Joe Haworth, Theodore Roberts, Annie Russell, & an unidentified actor
Joseph Haworth as Ira Beasley in Sue-close-upB&W-Resized.jpg (78975 bytes) Joseph Haworth as Ira Beasley with Annie Russel in Sue-B&W-Resized.jpg (162498 bytes) Joseph Haworth (in hat) as Ira Beasley in Sue-B&W-Resized.jpg (87299 bytes)

as Ira Beadsley

 Samuel Reed ,Annie Russell, Joseph Haworth & Horace Lewis Annie Russell, Joseph Haworth & Horace Lewis

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Joseph Haworth (L) as Ira Beasley in Sue-B&W-Resized.jpg (187812 bytes)

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Program from Sue at the Boston Museum Sue, Act I Ira dons a swagger costume Newspaper ad for Sue

Joseph Haworth & Sue
In the fall of 1896, Joseph Haworth acted in Bret Harte's Sue at Hoyt's Theatre.  Its title character is an innocent young mining camp girl who escapes her abusive father by agreeing to marry a man she doesn't love, the uncouth Ira Beadsley.  After three years of unhappy married life, a circus acrobat (still in tights and spangles) takes refuge in Sue's barn from the sheriff (Theodore Roberts).  A romantic idyll ensues, but when she learns that the acrobat intends to fasten a crime he has committed upon Ira, Sue returns to her husband and saves his good name.  The enchanting Annie Russell had a great success as Sue, and Joe forsook his heroic leading man image to play the dull-witted, selfish, dirty, and somewhat maudlin Ira Beadsley.

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