Texas. Maurice Zolotov has used this play as a standard by which he compares other plays. Seeing the Elephant at the Dramatic Museum was not the play that

Robinson had seen at Burton's Theater in New York nor the one he had recently seen at the Phoenix in San Francisco, in which Sophie Edwin had starred. Robinson had revamped the play, placed the scene in California, let his audience be the sharpers and he, the innocent, the verdant Vermonter, the greenhorn, by the name of Seth Slope. The opening night was on July 4, which was a holiday. The miners came in from their diggings to help the townspeople in their celebration, and when Dr. Robinson sang, "You're a miner, you can't come in," the miners joined in with: "So, leave, you miners, leave, oh, leave you miners, leave."" The Illustrated California News, a newspaper which prided itself on its dramatic criticism, reported Dr. Robinson's musical show a success.9