The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-04
A MUSEMENTS
''The PITT

Seldom does it happen to the read
er to have set before him so forceful
and vital a picture of the gigantic
"deals' incidental to active Ameri-
can business life, the grip that the
mania for speculation has upon its
victims, and the development of a
woman's love and character, as is
ris famous novel Of Chicago and its
trade maelstrom, "The PITT The
novel has been dramatized for Will
liam A Brady by Claiming Pollock
and will be presented at the Gennett
Theatre, for one performance, on
Tuesday evening, Dec, 9th.
Wilton Lackaye is to appear in the
role of Curtis Jadwin, a part in
which he is said to have scored his
most signal success. Many other dra-
matte efforts might be trivial. Those
of Wilton Lackaye are always felt to
be important. Most of the plays with
which he has been identified are
among the greatest plays in our Ian
guage, and the spirit in which he
has treated them has been that of
exalted scholarship, austere rever-
ence and perfect refinement.
Lackaye is neither of the stately,
the weird, the mysterious, nor the
ferocious order of actor. There is
nothing in him of either Werner,
Manfred, Or Sir Giles Overreach. He
belongs not either to the traditions
of John or of Edmund Kean. His per
sonality nevertheless, is of distinc-
tive and interesting kind. He was
the creature Of Svengali, and a re-
markably forceful performance he
made of it. AS Curtis Jadwin in
"The PITT he has the greatest OPP
portunity Of his brilliant career, and
| it is fortunate indeed that he should
meet such character at the thresh-
old of his stardom.
Jadwin is at heart a splendid, gen.
erous, and, in spite of his passion for
the great game of getting more mon
ey than his fellows, aclean-handed
man, whom anyone would be proud
to call his friend; and after he has
lost the tremendous burden of wealth
he has been carrying olong, and has
time to breath, to love, and tothink
Of something nobler than the mere
piling up of millions, the discrimi-
mating playgoer must rejoice that so
fine a fellow has so sweet a woman
as Laura to make life bright with
the only thing really worth living
for-love. Mr.. Lackaye is surround
ed by company of three hundred
people.
'Arizona.
| -.-gs""~- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
"Arizona" which will appear at
the Gennett Theatre on Monday
evening, December 9Th is, primarily,
the best play Augustus Thomas has
written, and is infinitely better than
the other Observation-Disclosures of
"Alabama.' and "In Mizzoura. -
The main posture of circumstances is
far from new, the assumption Of re-
pute for guilt by man in order to
save the name of a womanwho has
been tempted and was on the brink
of the precipice of disgrace and os-
tracism. Affected by this posture
are the relations of the woman and
her proud. hard-hearted husband,
the love affair Of the self-sacrifcing
man and his fancee, the sister of
the tempted woman, the attitude to-
wards the morality justified husband
Of the wife's honest, frank but bin
ded parents; the personal, social, and
military reputation of the man who
assumes the guilt; and the vengeance
sought on the tempter by the lover
of girl whom the former hadruin-
ed before turning his attention to
the wife.
To all Of this, there is POLITICALLY
just denouement; for husband and
wife are reunited in the discovery of
her love for him; the lovers find mu-
tual happiness in the explanation
that clears the youth of all guilt and
dishonor in the eyes Of his sweet
heart, her parents, his comrades and
the world; and the tempter is killed
by the lover of his victim, the instru-
ment of revenge, obtaining immuni-
ty from punishment through the OPP
GRAFTON of the unwritten statues that
are termed "Arizona Justiee' Mr.
hn~ do vi
circumstances with a great deal OF
technical skill mad has been success.
full in imparting to his play quality