The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-08
ACADEMY or MUSIC.
nenjnmin Players, In .sThc Cowboy
Annd the Lady, NIL the week.
DIJOu THEATRE.
Opening week of Vaudeville season.
LUBlN THEATRE.
Vaudeville.
.rhe Cowboy and the Lady.

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The BENJAMIN Players. who have
been received 50 enthusiastically by
4 the Richmond theatre going public
I VIII this week offer The Cowboy and
n the Lady" a drama of Western life,
written BY Clyde Fitch. This is the
play in which Nat Goodwin and Miss
Maxine Elliott starred some years ago
with such great success and has been
seen in Richmond only once since.
1.-The Cowboy and the Lady" is a
3strong Western play, depicting the
4 freshness and virility of out-of-door
4 life in Colorado, and in choosing this
play for this weeks offering Man
ager Benjamin gives the members OF
his company an opportunity to dis
Z play their versatility, as each and
every member of the company will be
seen in role vastly differing from
any in which they have appeared be-
fore Richmond audience. Although
the Benjamin Players already largely
outnumber the membership of stock
companies generally, yet the cast of
",rhe Cowboy and the Lady is OF
such very unusually large proportions
that Manager Benjamin was forced to
augment the membership OF his conf
pany by the addition Of four new
players, besides innumerable cow
boys.
The second act of "The Cowboy and
the Lady showing the Pretty-by-
Night Dance Hail." and the cowboys
dance, with several society women of
the East in attendance, Will be al
scene of spectacular beauty. and there
will appear on the stage a larger
number of persons than is often seen
by Richmond audience.
Franklin Richie will be seen as
Teddy North. the part originally
played by Nat Goodwin, while Miss
Catherine Carter will be cast in
Maxine Elliott's part. Mrs. Weston. The
energetic stage director and capable
actor, Il. J. Blunkall. will be seen asI
big Joe n cowboy; Mr.. Storm as a
Harvard man; Miss Knott in a comedy
character part; Mr.. Perry as the dis
frict attorney. Miss Cassell, the only
member of the company claiming the
distinction of being French, as Molly
Garkins: Herbert Curtis, who made
i such hit last week. as the sheriff:
Mr. Kendall as Mr.. Weston n scamp;
Miss Bradley as Little Nudge: Mr. Rue
sell as half breed Indian: Misses
Field and Reed as two society women
touring Colorado Bobby Watt will
be seen, but not heard. in the part of
a deaf and dumb cowboy.
The first act of THE Cowboy and
the Lady" shows Teddy North's cabin
on a Colorado ranch, with the cowboys
returning from the lynching of Little
Midge's father; the daughter later be-
ing taken under the protection Of
Teddy North and adopted as his sister.
Mrs Weston, who is married to a
scamp, riaes over to Teddy's ranch to-
invite the boys to a dance at silver
Vile. and In returning. is thrown
from her horse over a cliff, from
which precarious position she is res
cued with much danger and difficulty
BY Teddy North. who breaks an arm
& In SO doing: and here begins the first
Glove story OF tho play The curtain
I falls on the first act with Big joe"
setting the arm in place.
g* The .'Pretty-hy-Night Dance Hall
Ills the scene of the second act, and a
4 big dance for the cowboys is in full
swing. Here begins the second love
Maffair of the play, when Mrs. Weston,s
ahusband induces Molly Garkins to
elope with him. However. the elope-
ment is prevented by Molly's lover, a
half breed Indian, who kills Weston
with Mrs. Weston's pistol. Mrs, Wes-
ton is accused. and is about to be
arrested, when Teddy North sacrifices
6 himself, declaring that he is guilty
Rof the deed.
The last act is in the courthouse
at Silver,ille. Col, and the trial off
4 Teddy North is in progress.
THE Cowboy and the Lady" Will