The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-28
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Academy-Nat Goodwin In ".rhc Ge-
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Bijou-"Mr. Blarney from Ireland.H
4 Bostocks-Wild Animal Show.
\ MISUNDERSTANDING Rink.
! The engagement of Nat C. Goodwin,
! who will appear at the Academy OF Mu-
sic tonight and Tuesday. promises to be
ono of tho most interesting events of
the season. Mr.. Goodwin will do three
plays, opening tonight with his latest
and most successful comEdy entitled
"The Genius" Tuesday afternoon he will
present, when We Were Twenty One"
and Tuesday night will be seen In an
other new play, What Would Gentle
man Doc" which has also achieved a
marked SUCCESS wherever presented.
$50
LaWrancc D'Orsay, In 1.-THE Embassy
Ball" Is announced by Daniel Frohman.
TO be given at tho Academy on Wednes-
day night. The playwright is said to
have been Enthusiastically liberal In
the bestowal of humorous lines, dealing
them out with an impartial hand. The
simplicity of Mr.. DOrsay's methods
makes the breadth Of comic effect at
tained by him tho moro remarkable, but,
be his hlimor intentional or unconscious,
there Is never any doubt Of its effective
ncss.
"Checkers." described by the critics OF
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Boston as dramatization not only equal,
Jut superior to the book from which It Is
AIKEN. is announced for an engagement
IT the Academy on Thursday night. The
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engagements in New York. The play IS
described by William Winter, of the New
York Tribune, as the greatest racing
play since the day Of The Flying
Scud.'" Opie Read, the noted novelist,
has spoken OF 1t as "one Of the choicest
strongest and prettiest representations of
bit of everyday life that no has ever
seen on the stage
This week Fatma the big Russian
dancing bear. Will add wrestling to his
repertoire. At each performance In Bos-
tocls's Wild Animal Arena F'atma will un-
dertake to throw his trainer-a tall and
powerfully built Frenchman. Fatma
weighs about 600 pounds. and when
standing erect, ready to wrestle. is over
seven feet tall
Gaillard and his lifelong enemy, Balti-
more. as we'll the other many enemies
he has in his monster group of named
md manelee3 lions. will fight 1t out twice
daily this week. Gaillard says that no
kindness or any other treatment seems
to soften the Immature OF Ba tlmore, and
so far from becoming more good-natured,
he not only grows more sur.y as he grows
older. but he also seems to make every
other lion in the group almost as Ill
natured as himself. This group rarely
ever enter the steel arena without g. fight
with their ira ner or among themselves.
Sometimes these fights take place In the
from the dens to the steel arena,
and at other times in the arena itself.
Consul the Second seems to have be-
come acclimated here already, and is as
bright and lively. which means being full
Of mischief. as any young child. His
education will be rushed as fast as con-
d.tions will permit, so as to have him
ready for the jamestown Exposition.
Fiske o'Hara, at the head of a Blaney |
company, In "Blarney From Ireland" will
be this weeks attraction at the Bijol |
Theatre. O'Hara is said to rival Ctaun- |
cey olcott and Andrew Wade in his |
songs. and a brilliant future is predicted
for him by the critics.
Commencing next Monday. Charles F..
Blaney will present hts interesting and
exciting military play. Across the Pa
c.sic." at the Biiou, and strains OF mar
tial music, the rattle of musketry and |
the rapid tattoo Of fierce mouthed Cat
ling gun, belching an fncessant fire into
the ranks of the enemy, will be few Of
the interesting things to be seen and
heard. But it IS not all noise and ey-
element. for there Is a beautiful heart
story OF love and patriotism and enough
good, clean comedy to satisfy ALL