Today is May 4

1903

Buster is performing with the family in Portland, Maine. Also on this date, The New York Dramatic Mirror published this poem in the family's weekly ad:

Says BUSTER to his Father,
"I want to be a man."
Says FATHER to young BUSTER,
"Well, my boy, some day you can."
And when you grow to be a man
and earn a nice good salary,
Then you won't have to quit your job,
if they do smoke in the gallery.
--Nat Leary

Credits:

From Myra Keaton's scrapbook.
Reproduced courtesy Eleanor Keaton.
Thanks to Audrey McDonald Wladis,
Karla Boardman and
Patricia Eliot Tobias for
compiling this information,
and ESPECIALLY to
Victoria Sainte-Claire for
all her hard work on this website.