The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-24
"Not Guilty" at the Park.

The villain in the play that kept a big
audience cheering and kissing and crying
at the Park Theater last night had green
eyes This character of villain is always
despised by women and could the hyster-
ical ladies who sat through the performance
of Not Guilty have had their way Mr..
Will D. Ingram, the equisite young man
who impersonated George Dalton, would
ly after the performance. The women hated
him and the men wondered at his daring
wickedness.
1t is said that stage villains always make
the best husbands and fathers-that they
are most tender and kind off the stage. 1t
would be difficult to make the emotional
women who composed the Park audience
believe this theory. 'Iu bet he's as mean
off the stage as he is on observed a stout
woman who sat in the first row of the par
quet with her husband and two half grown
daughters. She said ii so loudly that the
villain heard 1t and WINGED at the thrust.
But all these things were very compli-
mentary to the young man-even when he
was Kissed roundly for his brutality TO the
girl who gave up home and honor for him.
Not Guilty present story of distress
ing complications. Frank Rawden, SUPER
intendent of the Sheldon mines in Pennsyl-
vania, is accused of the murder of his en-
ployer. He loves the murdered mans
daughter and she believes him innocent.
The real murderers are the villain, who is
the nephew of the murdered man, and
'Longshot' Logan, race track tout The
villain has betrayed the sister of Logan,
but the latter does not know it. This girl
witnessed the murder and was about to eX-
pose her betrayer when he placed a seal
on her lips by pointing out that she would
send her own brother TO the gallows IL she
told what she knew. Hence Ii was to her
interest TO keep quiet Perhaps no young
woman ever kept still tongue under more
exasperating circumstances. Its perfect
ly maddening." exclaimed girl I'm a tailor
made suit. sitting in one OF the boxes. She
was about the size of the poor heroine and
seemed to be in close sympathy with that I'M
fortunate.
Next to the villain the man that won
the biggest applause was Tom Daily, a Sc
cret service man gone wrong on account OF
drink. But he reformed and did good job
In the end and there wasn't a man in the
audience that didn't feel like shaking hands
with him. I'll bet that fellows got the
stuff in him." said a strapping young man,
speaking audibly to a friend. They sat just
below the footlights and the big fellow was
q policeman off duty. His big, good-natured
Irish face frightened like a new dollar
whenever Tom Daily came out.
MY goodness, there is AL West" said
the prettiest girl in the first row of the
parquet on the east side. as former Detec-
tive Daily strobe the stage on his first APP
pearance after his reformation. She spoke
TO her escort IN a stage whisper. And so
IL was Mr.. West, very popular young
man who has a lot of friends in Indian
apolis. why the last time L knew him he
was high-salaried travelling man and now
he's an actor, said the girl a little louder,
and then added. Wouldn't ut jar your"
a half dozen of Mr.. Vests friends sat
in box at the right of the stage, knowing
he was on the bill. There were two or
three young fellows and several young
women. IL was apparent from the start
that they had come 10 see Mr.. West. Just
here the young man showed a clever bit
of tact. All through the first act he APP
pears as a drunken sofa decidedly shabby
specimen of the sort that has seen better
days. Meeting him the street not one
OF his friends would have stopped TO speak
to him while he wore that garb. Now Mr..
West, with fine reasoning, figured out that
his friends in the box would not care TO
have IL known TO the audience that they
knew the wretched looking fellow that was
having his troubles on the stage, SO he cut