 The Actor and the Rube was the first production of the new Falstaff brand of the Thanhouser Company . The production was personally supervised by Edwin Thanhouser at the New Rochelle studio . The new Falstaff productions would take the place of the Princess brand films which were doing poorly with the audiences . The scenario was written by Philip Lonergan and the production was directed by Arthur Ellery . The single reel film was approximately 1 @,@ 015 feet in length . The production included Thanhouser actors , like Riley Chamberlin , and Princess brand actors like Boyd Marshall . An advertisement for the film stated that Boyd Marshall and Riley Chamberlain were the lead actors in the production . 
