The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15

the willy press agent for this once,
may be credited with veracity.
The Girl From Ont Yonder' Is the
work OF Pauline Phelps and Marion
Short. who also wrote Sweet Clover
and who. In collaboration with David
Belasco. wrote "a Grand Army Man
in which David Warfield has made
such success at the new Stuyvesant
Theatre, New York. The play provides
Miss Thurston with a more serious
character than those with which she
has been identified, and her many adj
mirers. especially among the girls who
frequent the playhouse at the matinees
think that in this role she is ire
sistible.
"simple simon simpIe.o
Nixon &, Zimmerman present their
musical cartoon extravaganza, Simple
Simon Simple at the Academy Friday
evening. The story is built around
the Simple Simon of Mother Goose
fame, with such additional inspiration
in working out the plot as the car
toonists of the Sunday papers afforded
There are fourteen characters in all
in addition to which there are twelve
small parts, and a chorus of thirty
The story, strange to say in reference
TO musical comedy. is claimed TO be
,ots.steut III eNeI sbepeel. lsie louF.
teen characters. 1t is said. follow oul
the thread of the story just as cas-,
VIII in dramatic composition of a
serious nature.
There are five genes and three acts
and the settings represent the outlay
OF considerable sum of money. for nc
expense has been spared by the pro.
ducers in that particular.
That the music is decidedly of Q
medley" nature may be taken fol
granted, when it is known thai, no less
than five composers contributed to the
score. There are twenty-five mum
hers. among them being several big
song hits. One OF the scenic triumphs
OF the piece Is the setting showing
the frog pond, with which the third
act is opened
Nell Mcneil heads the cast. whict
also includes shorty" Edwards, Jamc.
A. Reynolds, Franklyn Varnun Texa.
Guinan. Anna McNabb and Catherine
clemmons.
"rhe clnnsman."
The engagement of THE Clansman'
Saturday. matinee and night. is an
nounced as the farewell appearance OF
the piece in this section. arrangements
having been made TO carry the pro
duction on an extended foreign tour
According to the route mapped out
''The Clansman," after its present tour
will not be seen in this country unit
1911. Preparations on large scale
have been made for this three years
trip. it being planned that the pro.
duction shall visit the outposts Of
Anglo-Saxon civilization everywhere
before returning to America.
Among the actors in the present cas-
are Franklin Richie, Eugene Hayden
James j. Ryan. Maude Durand, Barry
Maxwell. NJ. j. Jordan, Bruce Richard
son. Guy 3. Hoffman. hurry Woods
Ruth Hart, Violet Mersereau. Joseph J.
Sweeney, George "A. Linderman, Ear
Lee, John v. Mcdonald. Mae Burgess!
and Earl Richie. None OF the features
that have made THE clansnan" $,
popular the past two seasons i
omitted
The Clansman" is briefly the stor,
of how the descendants of the Scottish
clans living in the South Carolina hill
country, rose up in the year of 1856
and threw off the carpet Dagger yoke
Their agency in erecting this resul
was the celebrated Ku Klux Khan. TIL,
hero of the play, Ben Cameron, Is (
leader of the Khan. His sweetheart
Elsie Stoneman, Is the daughter of al
abolitIonist, the organizer of the hatet
Union League. Here is the tnterpla,
OF love and hate. of passion and cir
cumstance.
Elsiefs father puts forth every effor
to enforce negro domination. and Bel
as stoutly resists. The latter is ar
rested and clapped in jail by the scala
wag Governor of the State. who II
aided by the muiatto Lieutenant-Gov
ernor. Silas Lynch a Federal, court
martial sentences Ben to death. IIlsi,
| begss the Lieutenant Governor to say!
| him. The 3lutter says he will If Elsi,
will marry him (the mnlatto1. Elsl
lsfaintss at the shocking proposal stone
man en- terss and is maddened on learn
ling What Ills trusted protege. Lynch
| has done. He has encouraged Lynch
about social equality, and indeed ha
told him to go ahead and marry
white woman; but when he learll
Lynch Wants his own daughter that \
another story, and his rage and DISCUS
are beyond bounds.
Yet Stoncman and his daughter ar
helpless in the hands Of the mulattt
1t Is the Ku SluN Khan, who, heade,
by the rescued Ben. surround the house
make Lynch a prisoner, and free tn
old man and his daughter. Stonemal
at last sees his gigantic mistake il
trying to rule the country by carpet
baggers and negroes and in 1nstillinl
false ideas of social and polltica
tequally. He announces that he wi.
make another trip to Washington I
induce the authorities there to with
draw he Federal troops and allow tn
I Suuthern people to manage theirsiaf
fairs in their own way. Ben and lIlsl
are united, A fairer day begins TO
that portion Of the stricken South
thanks tc the high purpose, steadfas