Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-09

POPULAR LECTURE COURSE.


The popular lecture course may
throw any amo1nt of bouquets at its
managers for this season, from the
success which attended their initial
Offering, last evening. 1t was su-
perb. The audience, too, was fine
one and most appreciative. They
were much interested, too, in the sub
ject as well as the lecturer. 1t is
seldom that an author artist is also
gifted with the ability to entertain
upon the lecture platform, but Err
nest Seton-Thompson is as clever
with his voice as with his pen and
pencil. All of his writings and draw
ings descriptive of the personality OF
wild animals are enhanced many fold
by his inimitable description of them
from his own lips. Mr.. Seton
Thompson is one of the most enter
tanning lecturers now on the platform
He has a way of putting things,
without straining after effects, which
captures his audience at the start
and holds it to the finish.
TONIGHT.
"When We Were Twenty One,
the great success in theatrical his
tory, will be presented in our
city and it offers not only an evening
of pure enjoyment, but it teaches a
lesson that no parent can afford to
Miss. This play is in four acts, but
never has play appeared so like real
life. The members of the company
are all good, and when one leaves the
theater one feels sincere affection
for the dainty Phyllis, warm senti-
ment for the soldier man, the Doctor
and Waddles, while the Imp is every
mother s hayward son, who comes to
his senses and redeen.s his folly.
A more beautiful play was never
written. 1t all turns around the
foolishness of the lad who had been
left an orphan by friend of the four
men mentioned. They had adopted
him jointly, but Richard Carew took
him to his home and was father,
mother, everything to him. When
the boy falls into the clutches of the
tFirefiy" and marries her, while bis
friends try to save him, he turns
against them all, but more bitterly
against Dick, as Carewe is called.
There are many complications, and
some of the finest and most dramatic
ever presented, and the
whole play is simply perfect in every
detail. 1t is so tender that tears are
seen everywhere, and yet it is com
edy, full of amusing episodes, which
but serve as setting to the real
jewel of the play.
Watson 5 American Burlesquers
are announced for the Phillips for
Thursday evening, the l4.h. Prices
are %, 30 and 15c.
Mr.. Dave A Weis will give the news
boys OF Brooklyn theater party at the
Columbia theater Thanksgiving day
matinee.
Charles Frohman has arranged for a
longer run in London of William Gil
lette in sherlock Holmes"
Charles Frohman has decided to
keep Edna May in London for a year
or more yet instead of bringing her
back to America, as had been ar
ranged.
The opening performance of Maude
Adams new play. Quality Street
which WAS given at the Valentine the
alter. Toledo. o.. drew SLIGO.
Charles Kent Joseph Brennan and
Jane Oaker have Joined James N
Hackett's company. playing Don Csp-
Sar's Return" at Wallack's theater.
New York.
Virginia Harmed began her starring
tour under Charles F'rohman's man,
agement in Alice OF Old Nincennes
at the opera house in Cleveland
klaw & Erlanger will soon present
the Bo>tonians in De Koven x Smiths
new opera. Maid Marian" a sequel TO
their famous success, Robin Hood"