This cartoon by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Dorgan" class="extiw" title="w:Tad Dorgan">Tad Dorgan</a> comments on the then-current trend for athletes to take up theatrical careers, and for actors to "hit the hot stones of Broadway".
<p>The two men arm in arm ("Jeff" and "Artha") are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Jeffries" class="extiw" title="w:James J. Jeffries">James J. Jeffries</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)" class="extiw" title="w:Jack Johnson (boxer)">John Arthur Johnson</a>; note that Jeff is singing "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100002634/">Happy Hottentots</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_F._Morse" class="extiw" title="w:Theodore F. Morse">Theodore F. Morse</a>. "Donlin" (possibly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Donlin" class="extiw" title="w:Mike Donlin">Mike Donlin</a>) is singing "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Strong_Man" class="extiw" title="w:Big Strong Man">Big Strong Man</a>".
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The actor in the bottom row is reciting from the "Supposed Speech of Regulus", by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Kellogg" class="extiw" title="w:Elijah Kellogg">Elijah Kellogg</a>, a piece which was reprinted in many late-19th-to-early-20th-century schoolbooks for children to use in practicing their elocution and public speaking.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Tad_Dorgan" class="extiw" title="w:en:Tad Dorgan"><span title="American cartoonist (1877-1929)">Tad Dorgan</span></a>
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Late 1910s/early 1920s
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