Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-12
ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENINGS
frank Daniels Comic Opera Company
in Miss Simplicity.
WEDNESDAY MATINEE AND EVE
ING.
"Strathmore."
SATuRDAY MATINEE AND EVENING
Cuinlan and Wallis Ministries
THREE NIGHTS BEGINNING MON
DAY. AND TUESDAY AND WEDNES-
DAY MATINEES.
Not Guilty.
BALANCE OF WEEK WITH THURS
DAY AND SATURDAY MATINEE
rawcett Stock Company with Mary
Shaw In Theodore"

Lovers of music and drama have had
n chance 10 breath this week. compared
TO previous weeks since the theatrical
nall was set rolling; as the Academy has
only presented three attractions. me
3iiou, however, displayed the S. K o p
every performance and tho comedy com
many PLAYED one of the most successful
engagements in Its history IN bostt
Strayed or Stolen"
The musical hodge podee was bright and
catchy and afforded ample opportunity
for the displayal of pretty girls in ahhre-
waited skirts. catchy music and witty dia
logue. The play, and the comedians in
st deserved the appreciation showered upon
both.
AT the Academy rather disappointing
rendition of Janice Meredith" was given
Wednesday, matinee and night. Fortu-
rately but small audiences witnessed eth
er performance, so consequently there
were but few regrets The play was
bad dramatization Of Paul Leicester
Ford S romantic story OF the Revolution
and what little merit the bool; conta ms
was completely dwaTfed by Rose Stahi
and her associate players who attempted
TO portray the chara cters in the play
+. Percy Haswell, well remembered here
for her excellent work last spring with
the Fawcett Stock Company III the Lit
tie Minister at the Biiou. appeared
Thursday matinee and evening in -
Royal Family" The play had already re-
ceived the endorsement OF the metropoli-
tan critics when il was produced at the
Jyceum Theatre for an entire season by
Miss Annie Russell.
"A Royal Family proved to be de-
lightful play and Miss Haswell q charm
ing Angela" The company supporting
the star included Boyd Putnam, Maud
Granger, Frank Roberts, and other we'll
known players.
Il was evenly balanced and an almost
perfect performance was the result. 1t is
TO he regretted that more plays like "A
Royal Family" are not our portion.
Petite Adelaide Thurston, who scored
such substantial hit in this city last
Ecason in Sweet Glover" brought a new
conceit in the shape Of a pastoral come
dy 10 the Academy Saturday matinee and
night. 1T was dubbed ''At Cezy Corners"
The play is reviewed in another column of
this paper.
SKETCH OF FRANK DANIELS.
Frank Daniels. who comes to the
Academy tomorrow and Tuesday nights
In Miss Simplicity is now at the very
height of his success as a nationally
popular comic opera favorite This new
Barnet-Heartz operate comedy has
proven to be much the most successful
offering that he has ever made and
throughout his tour last season he and his
company and Miss Simplicity" were the
centre of a furore Of prosperity and en-
thusiasm. This state Of affairs reached
ats climax during the run at the Casino
sn New York, where the rotund little
,nerry-maker and his company played to
crowded houses for several months.
In view of MIR. Daniels success, 1t
seems worth while TO offer review of
the comedians facetious and felctous
career.
As in the case of several other comic
opera stars II. NJ. S. Pinafore" was re-
sponsible for his initial appearance before
Khe foothghts. He played Dick Deadeye
an one of the innumeraple juvenile Pin
afore' companies that toured the country
when the Gilbert and Sullivan opera was
an the first flush of its success Some of
Daniels local admirers may recall him in
his earliest impersonations. 1t is said
that he was intensely funny in his
methods. even at the early stage of his
career From Pinafore," Daniels gravi-
tated to farcical comedy, appearing with
combination known as -Atkinson's Jol-
lities, in piece called the Electrical
Dell The theme Of the play was almost
Identical with Audran's famous Partisan
success, La Poupee,'' which more re-
rently became familiar to American au-
diences under the title OF Papa Wife"
NT. Daniels toured not only this country,
but the length and breadth of Great
Britain. and established an international
reputation as a highly clever eccen
trio comedian through his droll fnper-
sonahon of Christopher Twitt, in 1.-THE
Electrical DELI
In the fall of 1895, Mr. Daniels was mt
FORWARD as comic opera star by Kirk