The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-26


Brooks and Carlisle in their come
dy sketch, entitled 1.-The Limit" are a
hit of the season and their comedy
raj pitch.
Henly Bebken. the mirthful charac-
ter comedian, in satirical monologue
and parodies. is given a chance to
shine-he does.
Some excellent motion pictures
round out a bill strong in every partic-
ular.
The new building is rapidly nearing
completion and everything will be in
readiness for the opening. The new
house has seating capacity OF ap-
proximately 500. and the beauty about
these 800 seat is the fact that the en-
tire stage may easily be seen from any
one seat.
1.-THE Right Of Way"
of Sir Gilbert Parker's novel, 1.-THE
Right of Way will be presented at
the Gennett theater. Thursday, Sept
90. The management has provided
two excellent actors in the persons of
P. Aug. Anderson and Hallett ThomD-
son. Each man in his own special
way dominates the big scenes of the
play and there are a constant success
Of the
In the opening act Mr.. Thompson
realizes with an intellectually that
generates even the understanding of
he unthinking playgoer, the soothing.
2ynical atheist, Charley Steele, man
# scintillant intellect, but one who be-
ieves in neither man, woman nor God,
n whose image he was created. The
speeches to which he gives utterance
would be blasphemous, were it not for
the thorough belief of the man in his
disbelief. Somewhat underneath the
soothing cynicism we are impressed
that it is not the real Charley Steele.
who is giving utterance to these BIAS
phemies, but that it is the drink sod
den lawyer, with brain effected by
stimulants which make his scott
agains God and man. In contrast to
this railing, soothing demon is the dog
like fidelity of Joe Portugais, (played
most realistically by p. Aug. Ander-
son. He is a murderer, because he
yielded to the passions of primitive
man, but he has faith in Charley Steele
who saved his life, and hereafter he
lives only for the man who saved him
from a horrible death. Charley
an intellectual triumph for himself; he
knew his client was a murderer. but
he pleaded for his life because it gave
him pleasure to sway the minds of the
jury, and make them render a verdict
In favor of Charley Steele rather than
in favor of Joe Portugais.
Mary James Pa"
Only her most intimate friends
know that Edith Ellis intended her
play, Mary James Pa" which will be
seen at the Gennett, Tuesday. October
5th, as sane defense OF woman's
rights and privileges. and that the star
part in the play, as she planned it, was
to be a woman's-"Portia Perkins,
Printer"
And she was surprised woman aft
er the opening performance at the Gar
den theater, New York. to find that by
the mellowness and wisdom of the art
of Henry e. Dixey, she had given the
stage q character beloved vagabond
and that the triumphs of the energet
ic and fanful Portia Perkins had be
come to the audience purely incidents
working for the ultimate happiness of
the wandering philosopher, Hiram.
Miss Ellis has confessed that when
Mr.. Savage said he would accept the
play and put Dixey in it, she didn't tell
him of his mistake. so anxious was she
to have play produced by the great
manager. But her royalties and rep
, utation as playwright have since rec
onciled her to having her star turned
from the near-suffragette part to that
of the cultured philosopher in tramp's
clothes.