The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-29
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Heading bill that is remarkable
for it's excellent features, and one that
drew packed houses yesterday, are the
Famous Fords, handcuff king and
queen and their wonderful work in
this line was certainly a revelation.
Don Ford demonstrates that there is
no conceivable position in which it is
possible TO lock him so he cant es-
cape, and he succeeded in FIRE eing him.
self easily from number of irons
that were brought. Miss Ford, while
being the only lady expert is easily
one of the best, and she opens each
and every iron just as easy as does
her brother. The easy, graceful and
modest manner of these two perform
ers, wins the audience at once. Their
packing box trick was a sumner All
the other acts on the bill are big fea-
lures. The curious southern black
face singing and dancing act of Lydell
and Butterworth is one of the best
ever seen here, Stevens and Kelley.
presenting the comedy skit, Amt it
Warm" were well received. The
Seymour Sisters do some very clever
singing and dancing, and do it in a.
pleasing way The illustrated song,
s'EIv Away Birdie to Heaven was
.seil rendered by franklin A. Brooks,
and pleased greatly. The Philoscope
showing "The Miscellaneous Boys
False Alarm, and THE Tenent's Re-
venge," are as usual. good, and this
show should pack the theater to capac-
ity all this week.
"Mrs. Temples TeIegram"-Gennett.
The mirth-provoking and uproarious-
ly funny farce, Mrs. Temples Tele-t
gram" which had a successful run at
the Madison Square theater, New
York, will be the attraction at the /
Gennett next Friday night.
II you are interested as to whether
a husband is ever justified in telling
his wife a lie, go and see Mrs. Tenn
pies Telegram, and have your curl i
osity appeased. The charm of the I
piece, however, hes in the acting and +
rarely has a more finished piece of
work been seen than the Frank Fuller
of Allan Murnane. He takes the
reins of comedy in hand upon his en-
trance, and from then on held them.
m the hands of less capable actor
than Harry Conor, Wigson, the butler
would have been bore, but it is a
10 see HIIl, lOI HIS every
move and speech is interesting. Miss
Sadie Martinez as Mrs. Temple" has
"a difficult task in making an impussi-
bly,, gullible character interesting; but
her personality will aid materially in
her labor.
Mrs Temples Telegram is bright,
clean and free from all suggestiveness.
This play has won the distinction of
being the most emphatic comedy sue
cess of the season. The company is
one of the most evenly balanced and
uniformly clever that has been seen
in a comedy in long time. There is
no straining, after-effect, no squeezing
for a laugh, no buffooning for APP
plause, but straight, serious effort that
is most telling and effective.
Primrose's acknowledgements.
George Primrose and his all star
Minstrel company. will be the attrac-
ton at the Gennett, next Wednesday,
matinee and night. This engage
ment will emphasize the fact that ne
gro minstrelsy is not dead, as this
form of entertainment is entirely an
American feature, which has gradual
iy drifted away from the idea of its
originators One of the surest signs
of its popularity is that every writer
of comic opera and musical comedy,
introduces negro songs, melodies and
dances in all their works. and inva-
riably their biggest hits have been
made with these numbers There
was a time when the public would
stand for a so-called minstrel show &c
appear in Louis XIV costumes, pow
dered wigs, and painted faces. whicf
was rather charming to look upon be
cause it was new and in some degre
true to the troubadour style of tn
orient, but this. style having lost It's
novelty is no longer charming, and
furthermore. theater-goers now want
American minstrelsy that is true to ne
gro life of plantation days and truly