The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-29
Large Crowd Greeted Opening
Performance Last Night
And Was Pleased.
MOVED LIKE CLOCK WORK
ALL THE PRINCIPALS TOOK
THEIR PARTS EXCEPTIONALLY
WELL AND THE CHORUS WAS
FINELY DRILLED.

The FIRST night" of the Princess
Bonnie scored a success at the Gen
nett theater last night which should
dispel the idea that all the dramatic
talent of the city has died or moved
away.
1t hasn't. x .-
The leading parts were all more than
well taken care of. This is putting it
mildly and complacently. Miss Juliet
Swayne had more opportunity than
the rest of the cast to show what she
could do. Her Spanish dance with
Mr.. Reiber was perhaps as striking a
thing of the sort as has ever been
done in Richmond. The two dancers
were evenly matched in skill and grace
as the danced the typical Spanish
dance to the effervescent music of the
MBacheche The chorus of young
Richmond society girls was effective as
background and their dancing was
full of vim and go with a dash and
swing which rendered their act of
unexpected merit.
Monkey Song Hit.
1t is no contradiction to say that
the Monkey Song of Miss Marie Kauf-
man was as pronounced a hit as the
Spanish dance, for the two were very
different. Miss kaufman sang her best
with a nonchalant air which fitted her
temperament and the song. The nov
city stunt pulled OFF by June Gayle and
Norman Lamb was an unusually good
foil to the song and was splendidly
done with abandon.
Throughout the entire production
Miss Josephine Gates had ample OPP
portunity to sustain her reputation
as an accomplished vocalist. The
combination of repartee and song be-
tween Mr.. Howard Ramp and Miss
Gates was diverting and the parts we're
excellently taken.
Miss Pearl Hasecoster as Donna
Pomposo had very little chance to
more than intimate that she could
take care of larger part.
Eggemeyer Scream.
Walter Eggemeyer showed sprightli-
ness as comedian whenever he ap-
peared, especially in his canoe interpo-
lation with Miss Juliet Swayne. Ny
ron Malsby was as pompous as a
Spanish admiral with the name of
Pomposo ought to be.
Mr.. Raymond Swing had concealed
himself SO remarkably in his charac-
ter of vinliany that he could not even
run away from it when three members
ne hfe Il
while Miss Swayne was doing the meg
aphone mans stunt "a la seeing New
York. That was going at rapid
rate.
First From Cod Belt.
Mr.. Roy Lacey and Mr.. Erman
Smith needed only the addition of two
yellow slickers to give the illusion that
they had not been imported direct
from the cod belt. While Tort
Poundstone managed to overflow from
his minor part into a near" princi-
pal with his negro dialect and asides
The chorus was we'll drilled and
went through their evolutions with on
ly an occasional flaw just to show that
they were not from the Gay White
Way.
Costuming Pleasing.
One feature of the evening was the
costuming. The many dresses which
were entirely marvels of daintiness
would take page of feature stuff in
metropolitan papers woman's sec.
ton. Many of them had been made for
the occasion. The mems costumes
| which were secured for the play had
none of the appearance of borrowed
properties.
In short the production was ex-
tremely creditablt and there will nc
doubt be a crowd at the second neI